I am receiving at least 10 emails per hour with the subject - "Looking for
meds?" (plus two or three letters that vary). Can I block these?

If you want to block them in terms of "Outlook not downloading them", you'll
have to create a filter via your web based mailbox provided by your ISP.

Otherwise, the Junk Email Filter of Outlook will most likely take care of it
and drop them in your Junk Email Folder or you can create a rule.

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"JDD" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> I am receiving at least 10 emails per hour with the subject - "Looking for
> meds?" (plus two or three letters that vary). Can I block these?

"JDD" wrote in
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> I am receiving at least 10 emails per hour with the subject - "Looking for
> meds?" (plus two or three letters that vary). Can I block these?

Create a rule in Outlook that looks for that string in the Subject
header, and have it perform whatever action on that e-mail that you
want. In short: use rules.

Outlook downloads an e-mail before it can exercise any rules on it. If
you do not want to even waste the time to download the spam and then
delete it with a local rule, use a server-side rule to delete that spam.
Use the webmail interface to your e-mail account and define a rule up on
the server to delete those messages. That assumes that the UNIDENTIFIED
e-mail provider has sufficiently potent rules that let you filter out
this spam or even lets you define server-side rules. Also, when using
the webmail interface to your e-mail account, make sure the server-side
spam filtering option is enabled.

If the server-side spam filtering is too leaky, you can always
incorporate a client-side anti-spam filtering option. SpamPal is free
and can use blacklists (recommend using SpamHaus SBL+XBL [and NOT their
zen blacklist] and SpamCop and none of the others), Bayesian filtering,
and other techniques to detect spam. Bayesian is a guessing scheme so
I'd suggest moving suspect e-mails tagged by Bayes to the Junk folder
(and use auto-archiving on the Junk folder to delete e-mails older than
a few days). A User Logfile plug-in lets you record spam-tagged e-mails
so if you delete one, like those that are blacklisted, you can still
retrieve a plain-text copy from the logs (but it doesn't clear out old
logs so I used a scheduled task to run a special batch file to delete
logs older than the specified number of days). If the server-side spam
filtering is too weak, you'll need to add a client-side spam filter.