Any Valid Methods On Blocking So Many Spam Emails?

Hi, so over time, my email address got thrown around out there on the internet, and I get about 100+ spam emails on a daily basis. They end up in the Junk folder (I have a Hotmail account), but I still manually look at the title of every spam email I get, just in case there's an email which is NOT spam. It happens so very rarely that an important email ends up in that folder, and I want to make sure to never let an important email pass by me, end up in the Junk folder, and get deleted over time. So I take a look at my Junk folder on a daily basis to practically delete everything that's in there.

But it gets annoying to look the list of Junk emails, even though it takes only a few minutes to do so every day.

I am aware that if there's an email, from an authentic company website, that I can Unsubscribe from their list. That I do.
But I am talking about all the nonsensical scam emails with non-sense written in them:



Some of these types of emails DO have an unsubscribe link, but those links are completely invalid ways of unsubscribing. Those Unsubscribe links are links to contact whoever sent this email, SHOWING them that my email address is a real and valid email address that is currently in use (for if I respond to them).

So does anyone know of other ways on permanently blocking, and never receiving, those specific types of emails?

Thanks

• I'm not going to change to a different email and update everything that I use with a new email address.
• Other email providers also have a Junk email folder where the same type of junk email will end up in as well.

Is there any advanced option in Hotmail that can completely block the real Junk emails so my email account would not receive the junk emails?

pepanee said:

• I'm not going to change to a different email and update everything that I use with a new email address.
• Other email providers also have a Junk email folder where the same type of junk email will end up in as well.

Is there any advanced option in Hotmail that can completely block the real Junk emails so my email account would not receive the junk emails?

The good thing about spam filters is that the spam mails are in order by time and date....newest at the top.
So all you really have to check is the ones at the top.

Our ISP used to use TwoCows for the email provider and spam was pretty prolific there. I did find some commonality in domain names with most of the spam so I started black listing or blocking those domain names and even *parts of domains. Spam traffic eventually slowed to just a few a week. Then the ISP changed email providers (no email address change for the users and spam has all but disappeared. We have used Thunderbird, eMClient, the ISP's web mail client with no spam issues. We also use iPhone and iPad email aps with our ISP mail and little or no spam. I also have a Gmail account and it gets no spam either, but it isn't used much, just for twitter or one time email uses.

Ghot said:

The good thing about spam filters is that the spam mails are in order by time and date....newest at the top.
So all you really have to check is the ones at the top.

I don't understand. What if I have an important email that was sent a day ago. It's gonna be at the bottom of the list. So I would only look at the most recent junk mails?

[I want to point out that every time I look at the Junk mails folder, I clear that folder every time I go through the whole list of emails. I didn't state this in my first post, but it should've been implied by when I said every time I check that folder...]
...My first post stated that there's 100+ Junk emails per day. I don't understand why I'd look at the top, and exclude the bottom of that list; it's a big list. An important email could possibly be down that list at say, the 80th email down.

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jamis said:

...so I started black listing or blocking those domain names and even *parts of domains...

Okay, what about this example:
It's an email saying it's from Walmart, and has a gmail address to it. I wouldn't think that you would blacklist, or even block the gmail domain name:



I want to know of a method to be able to completely not receive an email like this one, for example.

@pepanee


I don't know what your spam folder looks like, but here's mine.
The times/dates are on the left in order...






This is webmail ofc. I just go through my inbox... anything spam, I mark as spam.
From then on it goes to the spam folder. Occasionally, I'll get something I want, that goes to the spam folder.
But... I know it "should have come", so I just check the spam folder. If it's there I mark it "Not Spam"

Ghot said:

@pepanee

I don't know what your spam folder looks like, but here's mine.
The times/dates are on the left in order...

My first post has a rather clear picture of what my Spam folder looks like.
Looking at the picture in the first post, notice the 5 emails within the timespan of about 1 hour (1:33 PM to 2:43 PM)?
They are complete giberish, with stuff in the body of the email that doesn't make sense.

I want to know of an option that Hotmail has to completely block emails like those to never reach my mailbox in the first place; not to end up in my Inbox NOR end up in my Spam folder. That's the type of solution that I'm looking for.

pepanee said:

My first post has a rather clear picture of what my Spam folder looks like.
Looking at the picture in the first post, notice the 5 emails within the timespan of about 1 hour (1:33 PM to 2:43 PM)?
They are complete giberish, with stuff in the body of the email that doesn't make sense.

I want to know of an option that Hotmail has to completely block emails like those to never reach my mailbox in the first place; not to end up in my Inbox NOR end up in my Spam folder. That's the type of solution that I'm looking for.

When you mark an email as spam, the address it came from is, from then on redirected to the spam folder.
Good spammers have multiple addresses and switch them up. Sooner or later you'll get them all marked as spam.

As far as I know... that's the best you can do.

How SPAM is detected depends on the mail filter used. Some use algorithms
- bulk emails
- key phrases or words in emails

What's available to you and the degree of distinction depends on how you receive your mail and which filters are then available.
I choose to use an email client (actually two- one for quick scan and pre-processing and response, and Thunderbird). Both use the same SPAM filter program.