Receiving hundreds of e-mails from different e-mail accounts (= you can't block all of them because there is always a new one being created)

Hello, for several months now, I have been receiving very unpleasant emails from various accounts every few days. As soon as I block a particular email, I receive another mail from a different email address. I am unable to stop this. I am mentally exhausted and do not know what my options are in this case.

All of them are from a single Chinese user which I've met online. For example: mail@126.com, (Xie *** is a full name of a person who is sending me those) mail@163.com, mail@163.com, mail@126.com, mail@163.com and so on. Is there anything I can do? I've tried contacting this person to ask them to stop but it only made things worse.



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Posted on Nov 6, 2025 12:36 PM

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Posted on Nov 6, 2025 12:45 PM

This person clearly has no intention of stopping. This is also a lesson in why you should never, ever, give personal information to someone you don't know.


Rather than trying to impossibly block the ever changing addresses, see if you can block them by content. Look through the emails. Are there any repeated phrases in them? If so, set up a rule to block them by the repeating body text.


If that doesn't work, or the text doesn't really have common phrases, then the best thing to do is what has been suggested by AlWeir and BobTheFisherman. Create a new email account and abandon the old one.

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Nov 6, 2025 12:45 PM in response to lulu_33

This person clearly has no intention of stopping. This is also a lesson in why you should never, ever, give personal information to someone you don't know.


Rather than trying to impossibly block the ever changing addresses, see if you can block them by content. Look through the emails. Are there any repeated phrases in them? If so, set up a rule to block them by the repeating body text.


If that doesn't work, or the text doesn't really have common phrases, then the best thing to do is what has been suggested by AlWeir and BobTheFisherman. Create a new email account and abandon the old one.

Nov 6, 2025 12:43 PM in response to lulu_33

My suggestion is create another email address. Where is up to you. Once you have created it, move the mail that you want from your old email address to the new one. Send a email out to your known contacts that you have changed your email. Leave the old one running for at least a month unless you have data cap and look at it on the server not on Mail. Once your satisfied that that everyone of you contacts have your new email address, delete the old email address.

Receiving hundreds of e-mails from different e-mail accounts (= you can't block all of them because there is always a new one being created)

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