I, too, had the same problem of deleting spam, and yet the spam folder showed there were still 3 spam e-mails in the empty folder. I closed and reopened AOL, and nothing changed. . I figured it was a temporary AOL glitch, and it was, as at some point the false indication cleared up. Woody ====================== JYoung6180@aol.com writes: Sharon- I had EXACTLY the same problem Jon did yesterday...and nothing made the "Spam Folder (3)" go away--you could log off AOL and back on, reboot, whatever, and the spam folder would be empty after you dumped any spam that was in there -- but the (3) would reappear within a few seconds even when the folder was empty. In this situation it was definitely a glitch on AOL's end most of the day yesterday. It isn't recurring today thankfully. Joan In a message dated 12/15/2009 1:47:46 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, DULCICH6@aol.com writes: Jon, When this happens, try clicking on the Search Mail tab. Then wait until its done searching. Nothing will appear in the search result area, but for some reason this works about 99% of the time to retrieve "lost" email. Sharon