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
    2016-08-18T16:09:15+00:00

    I too am having the same problem. I tried blocking and sending in as phishing scam and they keep coming. It is very frustrating getting these **** emails. Microsoft we need HELP!

    Just C

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-19T14:35:43+00:00

    I have blocked several, it does not help. They will just use another address. Its so aggravating especially if you think it is an email you are expecting and open it. and then it just gets worse. I can not keep it cleaned out. I am back up to 800 emails. I have had this email for 8 plus years. I really don't want to change it, but I Will, but will go to another email besides Hotmail or outlook...

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-08-19T15:08:52+00:00

    You would think Hotmail could figure out an email address such as this 44437653.932093A4656B5285363295@185.0xfc.00000166.0156

    is a piece of junk and toss it out before it evens hits my junk email file.  For years I've used my junk mail file as a filter for emails I'll read occasionally from sources, instead of having my in box swamped with emails from stores etc.  Now my junk mail file is cluttered regularly with disgusting **** emails.  Very frustrating!  I wish Microsoft would let the filter words apply to the junk mail file as well.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-08-19T18:56:14+00:00

    I used to have this problem years ago and it went away finally. I then went from Hotmail to Outlook for my emails when they started upgrading to Outlook. I forwarded my Hotmail emails to Outlook and still didn't have any issues, except for the occasional duplicate email. It has just started recently where the 'skin' emails started arriving so I'm wondering if Microsoft implemented an update that may have reset some previous filters that worked then but not now. Have there been any recent(within the last month or two) updates to Outlook that may need to be audited and corrected? I think there may be at least one, but MS(as usual) is still in denial!

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