Closing Hotmail Account concerns……….

Hi I'm going to close my hotmail account (which I only opened on Sunday), as I have been receiving a number of emails from people I don't know! I know it's impossible to have the same email address as someone else, but there is definitely someone else out there who is using this email address, including on Ebay!! I'm just a bit concerned that if I close my email account, will it close the other persons too? If I'm getting some of their emails, are they getting them too? Any help would be great. Thanks.