Increase in spam?

[Ancient Observer]

I use MS outlook to get my mail in to my desktop from Btinternet.

Up until a couple of days ago, BT internet was brilliant at diverting spam to its own spam file before it got to MS outlook.
However, over the last couple of days the MS Outlook "junk" container has been getting lots more in it.

My main inbox is thus currently protected, mainly.

Is there a recent hike in spam mail generally? Anyone else have problems with the BTinternet filter?

I had a look at the BT community website, and whilst complaints are up, the complaints are from relatively few users. Maybe I'm just unlucky.

thanks

AO