Outlook: Russian Spam

I’ve recently been flooded with a  flurry of Russian spam at work. Emails that are in all Russian that I have no idea what they mean. They usually get sent out past midnight so they’re queued up in my inbox by morning (smart, except for the fact that I can’t read Russian! – oh spammers…)

So how to get rid of them? If you’re using Outlook 2007, take the following steps:

Tools ->Options -> Junk Email…

Click on the last tab, “International”

And now click on “Block Encodings List…”

The following dialog appears…

Select Cyrillic for Russian characters, along with any other character sets you are unfamiliar with.

Click OK, then Apply.

You should be good to  go.