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
    2019-01-09T02:50:20+00:00

    Hi,

    I have tried putting email address in the preventing junk email. Why should we have to go thru all of those steps? You need to come up with a better way to stop all of the junk email we get. Sometimes I get over 35 junk emails in one day. I even tried create a rule and that doesn't help either. All of the nasty emails have to stop. This is really getting frustrating. I don't have that problem with my gmail account.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-01-09T01:13:21+00:00

    I would never open these.  I think it’s pathetic, microsoft just installed a unsubscribe folder. I still have to move them , not good enough. I am ready to close this email.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-01-09T00:03:23+00:00

    Wow, I don't open them either but I can tell by the subject what the email is about.  I have no reason

    to open any of them.  I have a first name that, if you don't know me personally, can be taken as either

    a male or female.  I am a straight female and most of the subjects of these emails either want to sleep with

    me or **** me all night.  Ummmm, nooooooo.

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-01-08T15:07:57+00:00

    Wow. I never open them, so I don't know what to say. If you've opened them and it seems inappropriate, then possibly get someone involved. Although **** not illegal unless it has children, but again, I do not know the laws of your state. Good luck!!

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