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
    2019-04-12T09:07:07+00:00

    I've had my email address for 20 years and really don't want to change it.  Having the same problem with the sexual emails from women, thinking I'm a man, but that is irrelevant really.  Nor do I want American health insurance and a raft of other completely spam email.  It needs to stop.

    Can someone not write an article in a newspaper or have a friend with influence, a blogger start getting this annoying thing out on different platforms to make MS actually do something!!

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-14T13:32:04+00:00

    I like that idea!

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-13T23:25:21+00:00

    I, too, am tired of all the sexual and other junk mail I get. Sometimes they even come into my Inbox. Tried everything! Won't work!!!!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-13T20:34:54+00:00

    Hi and thanks for the reply. I was hoping that I could find a way to forward all of the junk sex emails to Microsoft. If we could send it all to them I guarantee this would stop.

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