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

2016-09-23T22:35:53+00:00

Hi

I too thought the FILTH had been sorted and so it was for a few weeks (think I was a lucky one) they are now comming back at a great rate of knots

Mircosoft/hotmail must receive some sort of deal (money)with these emails why else would such garbage filth get through. Doe anyone from the site read any of these complaints I DONT THINK SO by the total lack of response

SORT IT YOU TOTAL WASTE OF SPACES

Sadly Microsoft does not read this forum and they don't care about the spams as yes they get paid to sale millions of emails, This is shameful and i am going to only use my 2 Gmails account

for years i never had and garbage emails on Gmail so ..
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Anonymous

2016-11-25T20:18:29+00:00

I too have been having this problem for a while now. Hundreds of smut emails a day. My email address is not a Microsoft one, so I don't see that it is about that.

I have the spam setting working on Outlook, but I use imap and if my computer is off, all this smut appears on my mobile and I have to wipe them off manually.

I had no idea it was so widespread.

How many children are getting, or at least seeing this stuff.

It must be a police matter.
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Anonymous

2017-01-07T22:29:35+00:00

This is happening to us also. We are senior citizens and getting VERY TIRED OF THIS!!! I have a hotmail account and have had it for MANY MANY years. I BLOCK THEM BUT THAT SEEMS TO BE OF NO HELP AT ALL. WE DO NOT OPEN THEM BECAUSE WE CHECK TO SEE WHAT THEIR EMAIL ADDRESS IS FIRST. They only come in Junk Mail so far. What do we do. It sounds like you have had no solution for this since around 2013! Thank you
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Anonymous

2017-01-08T01:36:47+00:00

I, too, feel your pain. Sometimes I get as many as 20 a day!
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