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
    2016-03-10T19:01:24+00:00

    This is of NO HELP at all.  I get 6 emails a day from one place that spoofs it from my address.  In the header is says ****.com and mx.****.com.  I tried blocking my my own email address, but hotmail will not allow that.  I tried to forward anything to my hotmail adress spoofing my own address, to a separate folder.  That doesn't work.  If I send something to myself, it will follow the rule, if it comes from a spoofed address is does not.  Why can't you make this easy.  Stop allowing spoofed senders.  Allow me to customize a filter that takes anything with a particular word in it and dump it.  I get at least 30 emails a day that end up in my junk, but I still have to read through them, because I am set to exclusive, that appear to come from myself but they are not and there is no way to filter them out.

    Alden D is not alone in this.  I too have tried everything that he tried to no avail.  I have changed account passwords, deleted cookies, tried to block domain name and IP.  All have failed.

    Please provide a viable solution to this problem.  Perhaps allow us to forward the email address so that the Outlook.com servers can block the bad email at their level.  We as users should have such an option.

    Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

    HP

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-29T20:41:00+00:00

    This is of NO HELP at all.  I get 6 emails a day from one place that spoofs it from my address.  In the header is says ****.com and mx.****.com.  I tried blocking my my own email address, but hotmail will not allow that.  I tried to forward anything to my hotmail adress spoofing my own address, to a separate folder.  That doesn't work.  If I send something to myself, it will follow the rule, if it comes from a spoofed address is does not.  Why can't you make this easy.  Stop allowing spoofed senders.  Allow me to customize a filter that takes anything with a particular word in it and dump it.  I get at least 30 emails a day that end up in my junk, but I still have to read through them, because I am set to exclusive, that appear to come from myself but they are not and there is no way to filter them out.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-25T10:30:59+00:00

    I have tried everything but i still am receiving junk mail sexual content and tried to block whats app but they still keep on coming into my junk folder ,,,help its driving me crazy

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