Windows 10: Tracking Received Email Sender (IMPORANT)

We receive greeting emails about four times a year from a 40+ year old immediate relative who I am concerned may be using email for seriously unlawful and immoral purposes. We been in self denial.

Is there anyway I or a skilled person or agency can legally investigate this important matter.

Thank you.

:)

 

Delete email sender

You can try these steps:

1. Sign in to your Hotmail account.

2. Click Options located at the upper-right side of the page.

3. Select More Options.

4. Under Preventing junk email, click Safe and blocked senders.

5. Click Blocked senders.

6. Enter the email address or domain on the box labeled Blocked email address or domain: and click Add to list >>.



Note: Please make sure that the email addresses that you have blocked are not included on your Safe sender's list and/or Contacts lists, otherwise, it would not work properly.

Let us know if you need further help with blocking an email address.

 

How do i unsubscribe emails from unwanted senders?

Hi Bob,

There are several ways on how you can block spam emails or unwanted messages. To isolate your issue, we'd like to ask if you are trying to block spams. Meanwhile, here are some options that you can do to block unwanted messages:

Junk mail filter - Selecting Exclusive option. This feature will let you receive emails from your contact list and safe senders list. To set up a junk mail filter to Exclusive, follow these steps:

• Sign in to your Microsoft account.
• Click the gear icon located on the upper right panel of your mailbox, just beside your username.
  
• Select More mail settings.
• Under Preventing junk email, click on Filters and reporting option.
• Under Choose a junk email filter, select Exclusive.
• Click the Save button.
  

Email rules - You can set up email rules to filter incoming emails to automatically delete them and not getting them in your Inbox. If you want to create an email rule to delete emails coming from an email address, kindly refer to these steps:

• Sign in to your Microsoft account.
• Click the gear icon located on the upper right panel of your mailbox, just beside your username.
• Select More mail settings.
• Under Customizing Outlook, click the Rules for sorting new messages option.
• Click the New button.
• Under Step 1: Which messages do you want this rule to apply to?
  
  On the first box with drop down list, select the Sender's address and in the second box with drop down list, select yes.
• On the third box, type sender's email address. You may select any option that you want to use at first, second and third box depending on your preference.
• Under Step 2: What action do you want to apply? Select Delete these messages.
• Click the Save button.

Blocked senders list - You can add email address/es or domain/s in this list to stop receiving emails from them. You also need to delete them from your contact list and safe senders list as well. Perform these instructions below:

• Sign in to your Microsoft account.
• Click the gear icon located on the upper right panel of your mailbox, just beside your username.
• Select More mail settings.
• Under “Preventing junk email”, click the Safe and blocked senders option.
• Click Blocked senders.
• In the Blocked email address or domain box, type the email address of the sender or the domain that you want to block, and then click Add to list.
  

Sweep features - Sweeping emails for deletion. By using Sweep feature it will clean up all the email from a folder and selected users specially emails from spammers. Check if these helps:

• Log in to your Microsoft account.
• Check the email that that you received from spammers.
• On the top of your mailbox user interface click "Sweep."
• Once you click "Sweep," select "Delete all from."
• Check the small box that stating "Also block future messages."
• Click 'Delete all."

All the emails from the spammer will be automatically deleted and it will go directly to your deleted folder.

Keep us posted if you need additional help.

 

Forum users with Hotmail/Outlook/Exchange account

The two-step verification emails show up in my inbox but I added a rule to mark the domain name safe a long time ago (verified that "techpowerup.com" is still in the safe sender list).