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
    2018-01-10T22:20:45+00:00

    It seemed like, at least for awhile Micro$oft actually cared and had gotten everything under control. Well, that was short lived. All the phishing emails and the like are back. Iike I have mentioned before, go get yourself a Gmail account. You won't regret it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-08T16:42:45+00:00

    I completely agree.  It is a form of sexual harassment in my opinion and should be a federal offense.  OBVIOUSLY MICROSOFT DOESN'T CARE!!!   They stopped for awhile and now are starting up again.

    DO I NEED TO START POSTING TO MICROSOFT THE DISGUSTING EMAILS I RECEIVE???

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-08T15:29:19+00:00

    I am fed up with these ****emails also.  I am a WOMAN and do not want ****emails and

    sexually explicit emails coming into my gmail address.  I also get emails about male enhancement.

    I don't want or need them obviously.

    There has got to be a way to stop these from coming into my gmail account at all.  Please do something

    FINALLY to help avoid these emails.  They are harassing me and I'm tired of blocking them which doesn't do

    one bit of good.

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-21T03:31:17+00:00

    What does a "create rule" mean?

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