Settings: Junk Mail: Blocked Senders: Domain Gostarmedia.com & *@gostsarmedia.com do not block incoming spam

Anonymous
2025-06-13T16:49:06+00:00

For at least two weeks, I've been inundated with spam from the domain gostarmedia.com. I've created the following "solutions" all without success.

Rules

Sender Address Includes "gostarmedia" (without quotes)

Categorize as Spam

Move to Junk Email

Junk Mail

*@gostarmedia.com

gostarmedia.com

It would be really great if Hotmail could stop letting ****clowns like these from getting through if someone enters a valid domain. That or allow more wildcards (e.g. *@*.gostarmedia.com), instead of only allowing it in place of usernames preceding the @.

Today, I searched and deleted 16 out of 18 Junk Mail emails, that had the gostarmedia.com domain in their addresses.

Thanks!

-User since 1995

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-06-25T17:21:05+00:00

    Thanks Mohammad. Very few would know how to employ this method!

    So far, so good. 100% success since I followed your advice.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-25T19:53:40+00:00

    The other thing with the gostarmedia emails is they say "no sender address" even though there is an email address when you hover over it.

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    2no sender address

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-25T20:21:57+00:00

    Microsoft should allow users to block any emails where - like gostarmedia - they fiddle with the sender's address (probably by putting in that single quotemark) to make it appear that there is no sender's address which may be why these spammers can circumvent a block on any emails coming from the domain gostarmedia.com. In short, if Outlook shows no sender's address in the Inbox, Junk folder etc. then it should be possible to block such emails (if you don't want this facility, simply don't activate it).

    Considering that Miscrodoft have ramped up their subsription price for Outlook, Cloud storage etc. by 20% lately, you'd think they'd have the resources to fix this, unless they actually make money out of domains like gostarmedia.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-06-26T08:44:51+00:00

    Your solution has a 100% success rate for me. Thanks again.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-06-26T09:08:41+00:00

    Are se going to get an answer to why you stopped rules working in junk?

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