This short guide will tell you how to use Outlook's Rules feature to automatically redirect such emails into junk emails or simply delete them.
This guide is also applicable to the influx of "piano emails" that go like this:
I'm downsizing and looking to give away my late husband’s piano to a loving home. The piano is a 2014 Yamaha baby grand.
I will not be checking this email often you can text me to indicate your interest on my private phone number ( 802 378 4554 ) to arrange inspection and delivery with a moving company
Edit: falling into the piano scam can cause issues: see this incident. Quoting that website,
I wanted CEOMTA to be aware of a recent iteration of the “free” piano scam. One of our members received an unsolicited email from someone claiming to be an elderly woman who was downsizing and looking to give away her late husband’s piano to a loving home. The piano was a Yamaha baby grand and the email came from a legitimate sounding Gmail account and included several pictures. The teacher did have an interested student, so the student made contact and arranged the delivery with a moving company they were referred to. However, the moving company was a fake. Although they sent a convincing invoice that included details like the size and weight of the piano, the parents realized after payment that the invoice had a different name than the company they were originally referred to. After being contacted again regarding the discrepancy, the moving company immediately took down their website and the family were unable to get back the money they had already sent. The original email said that she got the teacher’s name from a friend in her piano teacher’s association, so please be careful if you are contacted with a similar sounding situation.
Yeah, apparently many users' email accounts get hacked and the only thing they send from those accounts are cool cash emails, where they promise students of an easy-looking job that would look quite appaeling for them. It sounds too good to be true, and it is, though I don't know what happens if you fall for it.
And why does Purdue's spam handling system (aka Cisco) not work? Because the filter automatically ignores Purdue email addresses, which is where this junk gets sent from (of course without that user's knowledge).
Firstly, go to Outlook and looks for the Rules option (in Home). Click on "Create Rule" and select Advanced Options. Then click the "with specific words in the body" option, add relevant phrases like "cool cash", "personal assistant", "late husband", "baby grand" etc or anything else you see fit.
Then select the action you want, which can simply involve moving to a specific folder (like Spam, Junk or simply one of your own kind), or delete it. Remember that your filter could have the odd false positive (who knows?), so don't delete unless you really want to.
Then Outlook will ask whether you want to configure any exceptions. There shouldn't be any (unfortunately you're not getting real cash or free pianos from any of them...)
Follow this: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/use-inbox-rules-in-outlook-on-the-web-8400435c-f14e-4272-9004-1548bb1848f2. Should be enough (refer to the desktop instructions if needed).