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

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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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* 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.

Click Options located at the upper-right side of the page.
Select More Options.
Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders.
Click Blocked senders. ( add the e-mail address or domain/website in the field under Blocked email address or domain: )
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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Anonymous

2016-09-23T15:11:33+00:00

I am a 46 year old disabled FEMALE and get nasty emails from very young girls and men both wanting all kinds of things.I never open but the headlines I have no idea why these are getting into the mail at all.Most go to junk but still its the idea I get these at all and hundreds.I am female .Why would another female why would another felale want what they are asking ?Just so bad.. I do not understand one bit.I am guessing it is a way to get someone to click on things then they can hack away happily.One reason I have NEVER EVER put bank info on computer.Don't have a bank or money.Sure hope every hacker in world reads this and writes my name email ETC on the don't bother list no money list case truly I am pretty poor.Broke all time case on disability.
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Anonymous

2016-09-23T12:51:14+00:00

It's been 4 days since I happily replied that I was two days free of **** emails. Well, they found me. I , again am back to getting probably 100 a day. You know what is really bizarre. I am a 65 year old handicapped woman, and all my sexually explicit email are from women to men or about Russian or eur-asain brides looking for husbands or **** pumps! Just what I want with my morning coffee.
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Anonymous

2016-09-20T01:54:36+00:00

Microsoft does these critical updates automatically every few weeks. Usually when you get a new computer it will ask you if you want them scheduled and done automatically. Type Microsoft updates in your search bar by your start dates and see what happens. Good luck.
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Anonymous

2016-09-19T22:29:34+00:00

Yeah, thankfully so. It's considerably reduced...a great deal.
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