Beware, outlook sucks!!

[HotelMinion]

And not speaking generally. I mean the mail. I was emailing and I hit send. Nothing happened. Usually they give me a message saying "email sent." but nothing. So I hit it again. And again. And again. Finally, after about 3 times, it said, email sent. Then I tried to compose another but it accused me of being a spammer (?!?!?!) and said that I had violated it's policies. And it kicked me out and now it won't let me into my email! It's asking for some number that IDK who's it is, but it's not mine! WTF. Does anyone else have or had this problem before?

[Pixelated]

I'm having an entirely different problem with the whole Word Office program (it's demanding whatever number I originally used to instal it ... seriously? That was five or six years ago!!) but I've never used Outlook personally. I tend to go with the emails that come attached to browsers (gmail, Yahoo, etc.) because I've found them to be less of a PITA.

No help, I know. I hope you can get your situation sorted out. At the risk of making a bad joke, have you contacted Microsoft?

[dalesys]

... have you contacted Microsoft?

"We'll call you"

[Kit-Ginevra]

I thought this was the worst 8 ball message ever

[Pixelated]

"We'll call you"

Yeah. Typical Microsoft.

Good luck. I hope you can get it fixed ... or at the very least, you heard back from Microsoft.

[dalesys]

...you heard back from Microsoft.

Didn't they outsource that to boiler-room scammers?

[Jetfire]

I gotta wonder how often those "I'm from Microsoft Support" scammers get someone who actually has an MS problem looking to be fixed.

"You're from MS support?! Great! I've got a problem with Outlook. When I..."

[SimonF12009]

I gotta wonder how often those "I'm from Microsoft Support" scammers get someone who actually has an MS problem looking to be fixed.

"You're from MS support?! Great! I've got a problem with Outlook. When I..."

May try that next time I get one

[Ironclad Alibi]

May try that next time I get one

And they will be happy to remote in to your computer to "fix" the problem.

[gerund]

May try that next time I get one

When you've got a hammer everything looks like a nail.
When you've got a scammer everything looks like a virus.

[wolfie]

"You're from MS support?! Great! I've got a problem with Outlook. When I..."

No, "Great! I've got a problem with my computer not being able to see the Internet".

And they will be happy to remote in to your computer to "fix" the problem.

Pick the right problem and you've got a ready-made excuse for why you can't let them remote in to "fix" the problem.

[Jetfire]

And they will be happy to remote in to your computer to "fix" the problem.

Well, I'm sure we've all seen and heard the Tech support stories where the Tier 1 person is trying to run through the script, getting negative results... Only for the ID10T at the other end to finally reveal "I'm not seeing anything on the screen and I can't see behind the computer. The lights have been out all day due to the power outage."

A smart counterscammer can probably string the "MS Support" folks along easily with their own problem while not letting them anywhere near their computers

[Geek King]

A smart counterscammer can probably string the "MS Support" folks along easily with their own problem while not letting them anywhere near their computers

My favorite was leading on someone for 45 minutes (I was stating up some baddies for the game I was running) by claiming I kept getting a 503 error on the browser.

503 is a problem on the server end.

He finally hung up when I said the message had changed to "Your internet provider has listed this webpage as a potential scam. Please contact us at (fake-number).