Resolved Question: Why am I getting so much Junk email?

[not on yahoo, hotmail] yeah my hotmail address the one I use for msn and everything except this site, I am now getting up to 20 junk emails[saying I won stuff, asking about coupons, taxes, ETC asking me to get a job and stuff and I'm 14 so obviously none of it is true, plus I'm not naive] a day and I NEVER EVER used to get ANY junk mail, and I haven’t signed up for anything or given my email address out, I have been getting a lot of chain letters lately around when I started getting the Junk mail a few days ago could people have forwarded a chain letter with my address and somehow someone who sends junk/spam mail gotten my email address? Or is that impossible.. well how could this have happened? It Sounds stupid, but I loved my nice, clean, junk free email I used to make fun of my mom for having tons of junk mail all the time. The junk mail usually goes into the junk folder[and doesn't show up unless I click mark this as safe] but it’s still annoying! can I somehow block it or get people to stop sending it to me?
oh, I don’t send chain letters btw I delete them