[HN Gopher] Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing...
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       Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's
        
       Author : xvxvx
       Score  : 40 points
       Date   : 2026-03-09 19:53 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (imgur.com)
        
       | xvxvx wrote:
       | 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
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       | 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
        
         | WarOnPrivacy wrote:
         | The photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app.
         | Can you screenshot a wider view?
        
           | ivanmontillam wrote:
           | On the right top side of the image you can see a little
           | rounded square that says "Ad"
           | 
           | I had to look thrice to find it.
        
           | xvxvx wrote:
           | I updated the original post.
        
         | Terretta wrote:
         | I have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an
         | email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?
        
           | greyadept wrote:
           | It looks like a normal email but has the word "Ad" in small
           | letters. When you click it, it opens a link, rather than
           | rendering email content in another pane.
           | 
           | It's a pretty tacky design, in my opinion, even if it was
           | only serving "legitimate" ads.
        
           | estimator7292 wrote:
           | Looks like the latter
        
       | jbrooksuk wrote:
       | Imgur doesn't work in the UK, is there a mirror?
        
         | xvxvx wrote:
         | Try this: https://pasteboard.co/JYr36KObMIIu.png
        
         | SockThief wrote:
         | https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/O9bjjQQ
         | https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/Qra5Ohp
         | https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/MSDzFhs
        
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