Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's(imgur.com)

37 pointsby xvxvx3 hours ago2 comments

xvxvx3 hours ago
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
- WarOnPrivacy2 hours ago
  The photo offers no confirmation the ad ran in the Outlook app. Can you screenshot a wider view?
  - ivanmontillaman hour ago
    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.
  - xvxvxan hour ago
    I updated the original post.
- Terretta26 minutes ago
  I have no experience with that app -- is that an ad, or an email that it categorized and labeled as an Ad?
  - greyadept17 minutes ago
    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.
  - estimator729217 minutes ago
    Looks like the latter
jbrooksukan hour ago
Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?
- SockThief10 minutes ago
  https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/O9bjjQQ https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/Qra5Ohp https://rimgo.bloat.cat/a/MSDzFhs
- xvxvxan hour ago
  Try this: https://pasteboard.co/JYr36KObMIIu.png