Re: Reporting Spam from Microsoft

"David E. Ross" <[email protected]> Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:24:33 -0800
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.windows7.general
Organization I am @ David at rossde dot com.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/27/2026 1:22 AM, Daniel70 wrote:
> On 27/02/2026 9:59 am, David E. Ross wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> Did they actually tell you what this "different way to complain" was??
> 

They told me the different way, but only after I sent a complaint.  They
did NOT tell me how to distinguish the different sources within Microsoft.

-- 
David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>