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
    2018-01-11T00:25:18+00:00

    I was very dedicated last year for about 3 months, bit the bullet, and went through and marked all the sex stuff in my junk email file as a phishing scam every day.  After about 1 month I noticed a reduction, and after 3 months there were very few.  I still get them now and then, but it's 99% less than before.  And when I do get them, I still mark them as phishing scams.  

    It would be nice if Microsoft could figure out a way to block the emails that have a crazy amount of numbers in them; no one legit has email addresses like that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-01-11T00:15:17+00:00

    If they are in your Junk folder then it is working as designed.

    Give me a break. Stuff like this shouldn't show up anywhere. These email addresses that are long and bogus looking from these senders should be monitored by Microsoft and blocked from showing up regardless of what folder it ends up in. My concern would be with the elderly and other vulnerable people. Even just for those folks that lack common sense.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-01-10T23:38:02+00:00

    If they are in your Junk folder then it is working as designed.

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  4. 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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