Re: Reporting Spam from Microsoft

Daniel70 <[email protected]> Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:04:33 +1100
Newsgroups alt.comp.microsoft.windows,alt.windows7.general
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 28/02/2026 3:24 am, David E. Ross wrote:
> 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.
> 
How helpful the Help Desk was ..... NOT!!
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Daniel70