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

2016-08-20T04:59:06+00:00

I am upgraded to the new outlook and for everyone I block, 5 more show up in it's place. Please explain exactly how you are blocking them.
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2016-08-20T15:16:07+00:00

I am upgraded to the new outlook and for everyone I block, 5 more show up in it's place. Please explain exactly how you are blocking them.

same here it's a NON STOP annoyance ! i complained many times and NOPE ...
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Anonymous

2016-08-20T17:27:36+00:00

They say one definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. It certainly appears MS does not read this forum and, if it does, it doesn't care that so many of us are being inundated with this trash and no good way to dig out.

I have been using outlook for junk mail anyway -- two levels: the inbox for junk mail I might actually want to read and the junk mail box for other. Other did not include **** trash mail.

I am going to switch to another account for this. The gmail I use for my personal email never gets anything like this trash Outlook is now allowing.
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Anonymous

2016-08-22T15:11:19+00:00

I've been having the same problem for months. Most of the sexually explicit emails I'm getting have all numbers in the email address so outlook won't block them....

I can log-in to approx. 50 explicit emails a day and I'm seriously thinking of cancelling my outlook account all together, I've had enough.

Surely you can come up with something that blocks this rubbish Microsoft ???????
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