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Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

46 pointsby xvxvxtoday at 7:53 PM10 commentsview on HN

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xvxvxtoday at 7:53 PM

I get plenty of antivirus 'your payment has failed, click to update' attempts in my spam folder, but to see a paid ad hosted on the free version of Outlook for Windows 11 is very troubling. I have Gmail connected to the Outlook app and this is where the ad showed.

https://imgur.com/a/O9bjjQQ

Edit: better screencap https://imgur.com/a/Qra5Ohp

Update: had to refresh a few times but it came back and here's where the 'ad' leads to: https://imgur.com/a/MSDzFhs

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jbrooksuktoday at 9:42 PM

Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?

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