Re: Reporting Spam from Microsoft

"David E. Ross" <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:59:59 -0800
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.windows7.general
Organization I am @ David at rossde dot com.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/26/2026 12:58 PM, Paul wrote:
> On Thu, 2/26/2026 12:15 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
>> NO!  This is not spam.  I try to report spam to the spammer's host.
>> Spam from Microsoft, however, requires that I know which Microsoft
>> service is the origin (e.g., Azure, 360).  Each service has a different
>> reporting process.
>>
>> How can I tell which Microsoft service is the source of spam?
>>
> 
> When you look at the raw email with all of its fancy header text,
> is there anything that resembles a Microsoft domain in there ?
> 
	[snipped]
> 
>    Paul
> 

When I view the raw source, I see
> Received: from TYPPR03CU001.outbound.protection.outlook.com ([52.101.126.89])
> 	by cmsmtp with ESMTP
> 	id tZmEvnrCkG1vutZmFvdrxB; Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:19:16 +0000
and
> ARC-Seal: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; s=arcselector10001; d=microsoft.com; cv=none;...
and
> ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=microsoft.com;
and
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="XtbYproQFDqr7Z2Z91H6ahOZLQg4moK9MZiUnYsSZZJIzVx"
> X-ClientProxiedBy: PR3P189CA0057.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM

When I complained to <[email protected]>, they replied that
this was from Azure and required a different way to complain.
-- 
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>