Hotmail and Outlook users flooded with spam as Microsoft admits to junk mail filter malfunction

Noticed rather more emails than usual about penis enlargements and great deals on your car insurance?

Have you seen an abnormal measure of spam in your Hotmail or Outlook inbox as of late? 

Microsoft has conceded that an issue with its garbage mail channels has made a great many clients be overflowed with messages about penis augmentations, abstain from food pills and Russian ladies. 

The issue started on Tuesday evening and proceeded into Wednesday morning. Microsoft later said it had set up two arrangements of fixes to ensure clients' inboxes. 

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The Office 365 administration page presently expresses that everything is up and running: "We've executed both the fixes all through the influenced framework, which has moderated affect," it said. 

Numerous Hotmail and Outlook clients took to online networking to whine about the issue. 

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@imbeingerica 

Hello @Outlook @hotmail WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE SPAM EMAILS TODAY? I've had right around 60 medium-term and they're NOT GOING AWAY. 

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In any case, one Reddit client could see the clever side. 

Lady worried at PC 

"Take a gander at all of these awesome arrangements I've been passing up a major opportunity for quite a long time," Peck Ed composed . 

"Presently on the off chance that you chaps will pardon me, I'm headed toward turned into a... tycoon getting an awesome arrangement on my auto protection with my new Russian lady of the hour at the Casino with my free wagers." 

Microsoft has not uncovered what caused the issue.