Spam Not Going Straight To Junk

[johnny37]

emails i would normally see go straight to junk have started going into my inbox.
Could it be because i have not signed up to windows 10? I am with hotmail (Microsoft?) and their hit rate used to be virtually 100%. They are easy enough for me to spot them visually but i wondered why. Any ideas?

[Buenchico]

It's probably that the spammers are just getting better at hiding their mail from Outlook's (formerly Hotmail's) detection systems. Such systems tend to look, for example, for blacklisted servers which are known to be major sources of mail but if some spammers can get malware onto the computers of people like you and me, then small amounts of spam could be sent out via our computers (and from those of millions of other people with the same malware on their computers) so that it's not all seen as originating from the same place.