I am tired of all the junk mail I get. the more I block the more I get WHY?

Anonymous
2013-07-12T23:20:17+00:00

I have tried and tried to block all the sexual emails I get in my Junk folder the more I block the more I get.  WHY?  There is not a way to restrict them I have tried.  Please I am so tired of them.  I want to close my Hotmail account I have had for years, that is how sick and tired of them I am.  Because my name is the email account you just let anyone post email to it? I would hate to close my account, and I like my name being on it.  How can I fix this it is important.

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Anonymous
2013-07-14T15:13:21+00:00

* Added on 21 July 2022 because so many people are being brought to this thread by a search.

If outlook.com is sending these messages to Junk, they're being (in outlook terms) "blocked."

You cannot create a rule to delete or do anything else to these messages. Rules don't work in the Junk folder.

Look through the Junk folder every day or two to see if legitimate messages were sent to Junk and delete the messages that really are spam/junk.

Don

We're sorry for the inconvenience as you're receiving a lot of Junk mails. Let me see what  I can do to help you with this problem. Just to make sure  I won't be providing you same steps, can you please give us the exact steps you've taken in blocking those e-mails? Let us know.

If you haven't tried blocking the e-mail address or domain whose sending you those e-mails, I suggest that you do so. Check out the following steps:

Check your Blocked sender list.

Sign in to your account. Go to inbox.

  1. Click Options located at the upper-right side of the page.
  2. Select More Options.
  3. Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders.
  4. Click Blocked senders. ( add the e-mail address or domain/website in the field under Blocked email address or domain: )
  5. Click Add to list >>.

I hope this helps. Let us know the result. If you have further questions, don't hesitate to post back.

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-01-24T01:20:44+00:00

    Microsoft don;t want to help, do what I did change to gmail, much better and safer for our kids, at least the filter works !

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-01-24T01:18:27+00:00

    I too have done all this, with all the money microsoft has surely someone can figure a way out of this.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-01-24T01:14:51+00:00

    Exactly, it would take forever, surely in this day & age Microsoft should be able to manage this ? I too have set up a gmail account and i can tell you in a week i haven't had one sexual email my kids can read so why is it so hard ?

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-01-23T20:08:51+00:00

    I hope I could add solutions to this problem that is affecting all of us who are tired and sick of getting those annoying junk emails with sexual contents.

    What I have noticed is that most of them come from ads and not from subscriptions from any kind, which means that Microsoft should allows us, at least, to personalize and get the kind of, maybe ads or advertiser when it comes to those junks  emails.

    I might be wrong but if we have to fight for this, you will have for sure my voice at any time

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