I got an email from a relative of mine that I could see right away was not from him. I called him up to say that his account was hacked, but he says it was hacked a while ago and the guy got his email address and contacts, and now - after he regained control of the account - the hacker uses those to send emails to his contacts with a fake return address. IOW the guy sends emails to everyone on my relative’s contact list pretending to be [Joe.Blow@gmail.com] and with the “From” field showing that email address, when in reality the email is coming from a different email address altogether. (Those emails do not show up in his “Sent” folder.)
My question is if I can tell Outlook to send all emails from this sender to go straight to “junk”, or if that will send all emails that actually do come from [Joe.Blow@gmail.com] to the junk folder too?
Essentially ISTM that the question is: is the fake “From” field just something that’s coded to appear that way, but the Outlook “knows” what the real sending address is, or is it actually tricking the program into thinking that’s the real sender?