sudden spam in inbox

[grayalien]

Hi, I'm new to this so bear with me. I have been using Outlook for ages, then, suddenly the other day my inbox is full of rubbish. One or two private e mails and the rest crap! Every day i have up to 30 e mails by companies etc. I tried to use the exclusive setting as advised on the outlook preventing junk e mails section. It literally started one day and is getting worse. Has this happened to anyone else and if so can you help?
Many thanks.

[gmayor]

If you post your e-mail address in on-line forums etc, you will inevitably attract spam. Doesn't your e-mail service provider offer spam filtering? If not you could use a third party spam filter such as Mailwasher, or let a Gmail account fetch your mail and use its filtering.