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Anonymous
2023-08-20T04:25:48+00:00

I started receiving daily emails from "Start Daily <___@___.___>"

#1 is this legitimate??

#2 If it is legitimate, I never subscribed and I won't click on "Unsubscribe" so how do I get this stopped ?

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-08-30T15:58:09+00:00

    I recently started receiving these irritating emails also. Hesitant to even open them, let alone click an Unsubscribe link, I did some digging, and found they probably are legit. To check if you are subscribed to receive these emails without even opening the email, do the following steps:

    1. Go to the following (an official Microsoft website): https://www.msn.com/en-gb/personalize/newslettersignup
    2. Note it mentions the "Start Unfold" and "Start Daily" emails (don't click them though). Instead, click the link at the bottom of the page in small text: "To withdraw consent or manage your preferences, visit the Promotional Communications Manager"
    3. Enter your email address. They'll send you an email with a link.
    4. Click the link in the email you receive (funnily enough this actually went to the Junk Mail folder of my Hotmail account - Microsoft even flags their own official email as spam which I find quite comical)
    5. Then select/deselect the emails you want to be subscribed/unsubscribed to.

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    Anonymous
    2023-12-23T10:08:42+00:00

    A recent (simple) solution:

    1. Login to your account on microsoft.com
    2. Go to https://account.microsoft.com/profile/communications 
    3. Uncheck "Start Daily" checkbox

    This way you dont need to input any email information,

    Hope it helps

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-09-14T01:56:52+00:00

    Thank you RoyalRedRooster for the thoughtful reply. My question has been answered.I can't believe the way the company I paid for my OS keeps spamming me and I can't even tell the difference between their official emails and a phishing scam. Come on Microsoft. Between this and the Edge browser continuously displaying a search bar even after exiting and adding/changing my settings every other update I've had just about enough. At this rate, I'm going to put both my feet in the Linux camp.

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  2. Don Varnau 19,770 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-08-20T08:12:16+00:00

    I started receiving daily emails from "Start Daily <*** Email address is removed for privacy ***>"

    #1 is this legitimate??

    #2 If it is legitimate, I never subscribed and I won't click on "Unsubscribe" so how do I get this stopped ?

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    We can't see the email address you posted. We see *** Email address is removed for privacy ***

    To bypass the filter, replace @ with at.

    The general rule is to not unsubscribe from spam so, if Start Daily seems like a legitimate company, I might unsubscribe, otherwise you should simply mark it as Junk/Spam to train the outlook(?) spam filters.

    Don

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  3. Don Varnau 19,770 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-08-20T22:44:43+00:00

    Darn filters. The email address appears to be microsoft's "Start Daily <microsoft.start(at)email2.microsoft.com>"

    Appears to be from Microsoft and you should be able to unsubscribe.

    Don

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