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
    2018-12-09T23:03:41+00:00

    because you are using hotmail /Outlook the most useless and not caring email company on the internet

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  2. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T22:26:49+00:00

    I am getting about 10 sexually expliciy emails a day too. I hate it. Blocking, deleting, and reporting does nothing. I may just have to delete my account and not use my account that I have had for 20 years.

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  3. Anonymous
    2018-12-08T10:26:45+00:00

    I have been getting the same rubbish for quite a while now, about 10 per day, blocking them dont work, blocking their domain name dont work, setting rules don`t work for the simple reason is that they use random keyboard presses in the subject and message fields.

    I have a little message in the bottom right hand cornerof my Outllook saying because I am using an ad blocker I can subscribe to ad free emails, does this mean that if I PAY Microsoft for ad free emails will all the sexually explicit emails stop?

    I have 3 email accounts, Virgin Media, GMail and Hotmail, what I have discovered over the years its the service providers that want you to pay through the nose where you are more likely to get these sexually explicit emails, Outlook want a subscription and so do Google, I have had the same Virgin Media email address for quite a few years and I have never had one of these types of emails delivered to it. 

    These culprits are sending out emails to several recipients at the same time, surely this can be detected by Microsoft or Google!

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  4. Anonymous
    2018-11-24T05:42:55+00:00

    The best way to stop these is to not open them and just keep deleting  it's taken almost 2 years and now just the odd one pops up.. I have also noticed that any picture you look at on Google can also cause unwanted spam emails.

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