A y Hotmail/outlook email users.....how do i block a sender?

[Dave7]

I get regular emails claiming the sender has accessed everything and will sell the info on unless I pay them by crypto currency.
I have found a way to send them to "trash" but there must be a way to block them (i realise they or others can send via a different address).
Google and YouTube tell me click this or that symbol but my phone just doesn't have that symbol.
Any ideas ??

 

[figbat]

I get regular emails claiming the sender has accessed everything and will sell the info on unless I pay them by crypto currency.
I have found a way to send them to "trash" but there must be a way to block them (i realise they or others can send via a different address).
Google and YouTube tell me click this or that symbol but my phone just doesn't have that symbol.
Any ideas ??

Just delete and move on. They use varying email addresses so you’ll spend more time blocking each one that comes than worth it. Your junk filter should catch them and put them in the junk folder - I review the messages in there, pluck out the genuine ones then bulk delete the rest without reading.

 

[Dave7]

Just delete and move on. They use varying email addresses so you’ll spend more time blocking each one that comes than worth it. Your junk filter should catch them and put them in the junk folder - I review the messages in there, pluck out the genuine ones then bulk delete the rest without reading.

That's what I have been doing. The junk box is quite efficient. Its just annoying me that I cant block them eg I get regular messages claiming to be from 'cloud' demanding I do this or that because I have no more 'cloud space'........I've never used the cloud.

 

[bluenotebob]

If it really irritates you then consider opening a Google Mail account. I've had a GMail account for over 20 years and I've never received any of that stuff.

I use Outlook as a 'second' account (but not Hotmail - I gave that up years ago) and I get some 'no more cloud space' messages - but probably less than half-a-dozen a year. When you say you get them regularly, what do you mean? one a week?

If your address book isn't enormous, think about gradually transferring everything over to GMail.

 

[N0bodyOfTheGoat]

On dodgy emails
... (Bottom right corner on mobile app)
Phishing
Report and block

 

[classic33]

I get regular emails claiming the sender has accessed everything and will sell the info on unless I pay them by crypto currency.
I have found a way to send them to "trash" but there must be a way to block them (i realise they or others can send via a different address).
Google and YouTube tell me click this or that symbol but my phone just doesn't have that symbol.
Any ideas ??

Try rotating the handset through 90°, you might then see the option to report them.
Use that, as suggested by @N0bodyOfTheGoat to block the sender.

 

[presta]

Your junk filter should catch them and put them in the junk folder

I don't know how, but some senders are able to evade blocking, even without changing email address.

The junk box is quite efficient.

I beg to differ. If you have to keep checking to make sure there's nothing important gone in the junk folder, you might just as well be looking through the inbox. It just makes two folders to check instead of one. I've lost count of the number of times I've told Outlook that the bank's not junk mail, but they still keep filing it in the junk mail folder anyway.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Mark them as spam. It helps your email provider to classify them as such. Most providers are pretty efficient at detecting spam these days, although as @presta notes, they can be a bit over-zealous at times.

 

[Dave7]

If it really irritates you then consider opening a Google Mail account. I've had a GMail account for over 20 years and I've never received any of that stuff.

I use Outlook as a 'second' account (but not Hotmail - I gave that up years ago) and I get some 'no more cloud space' messages - but probably less than half-a-dozen a year. When you say you get them regularly, what do you mean? one a week?

If your address book isn't enormous, think about gradually transferring everything over to GMail.

I actually do have a google email, had it for donkeys years. Can't remember why I got it. I opened it a few days ago and its still active.
Re the 'cloud' messages, it must be every week, sometimes several per week.

 

[Dave7]

I don't know how, but some senders are able to evade blocking, even without changing email address.

I beg to differ. If you have to keep checking to make sure there's nothing important gone in the junk folder, you might just as well be looking through the inbox. It just makes two folders to check instead of one. I've lost count of the number of times I've told Outlook that the bank's not junk mail, but they still keep filing it in the junk mail folder anyway.

TBH I've never understood the value of the junk folder because, as you say, you still have to check it and delete the rubbish.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I get regular emails claiming the sender has accessed everything and will sell the info on unless I pay them by crypto currency.
I have found a way to send them to "trash" but there must be a way to block them (i realise they or others can send via a different address).
Google and YouTube tell me click this or that symbol but my phone just doesn't have that symbol.
Any ideas ??

You may get a fair bit of spam because you open unsolicited emails out of curiosity?

Basically, if an email is from a source other than friends you know, sites you have subscribed too or banks, etc, that you use, then bin without opening.

Over time you should eventually receive pretty much zero spam in your inbox.

 

[PeteXXX]

I find that I have more options to report etc any spam on MrsPete's account (I get very little) if I open Outlook on her laptop & deal with it than on her Android phone.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just tell @Accy to stop asking you to those parties.

 

[Dave7]

I find that I have more options to report etc any spam on MrsPete's account (I get very little) if I open Outlook on her laptop & deal with it than on her Android phone.

Yes, when I used to use my laptop I could definitely block when needed.
Incidentally I have just had 24 year old tech savvy granddaughter looking into it and she cant find any way to block them. So I've deleted and reported it as inappropriate spam......hopefully that works.