Microsoft Outlook app now showing paid spam/phishing ad's

xvxvx 70 points 14 comments March 09, 2026
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xvxvx

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

jbrooksuk

Imgur doesn’t work in the UK, is there a mirror?

_nickwhite

This is bad, but not as bad as the "Unlock Premium" ad every single corporate/enterprise Teams user got (locked in the title bar on Windows and macOS). Hiding the ad required an admin to turn off "self-service", a hard to find setting buried in the "Org Settings" within Microsoft 365 admin center. I can't even blame this on AI/Microslop. https://blog.mindcore.dk/2025/10/unlock-teams-premium-prompt...

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