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

I am having same problem and the most likely reason for even having this issue is some idiot at Microsoft changing the rules (intentionally?).

My account was the best it was in probably four years, I would mark this garbage as phishing using the button in the ribbon. I would get a message saying the sender would be blocked and the email reported. I was only getting 3-4 junk/phishing emails a day. The regular junk mails from companies I do frequent I would just delete normally. It was great.

First sign of trouble was obvious phishing emails ended up in my regular mail, which had not happened in probably three years. I moved them to junk, marked as phishing, and deleted them. No issue. Then all of a sudden I start getting 20-40 junk/phishing emails a day. I finally noticed that using the phishing button at the top now no longer blocks the sender but now it says it will unsubscribe me if there is an unsubscribe button in the email.

Thanks Microsoft for confirming my email is active and doing who knows what to help these jerks from filling up my junk mail. I used to think people on this board saying Microsoft was in bed with these people were just being paranoid but after sabotaging your system which was working great I have to agree, you probably are doing these things on purpose.

I agree with all the posts on this topic so far.

Please do something about this asap and don't be a toothless monster!

I also have been plagued by gostarmedia junk. Where outlook is being let down is that the emails are flagged as having no sender address, probably because the sender address starts @' This sends them to the junk folder for me. If I put a rule to delete all emails with sender address containing @' and test that rule it will delete any emails like this which I have transferred to the inbox but any new arrivals have already been sent to junk and thus are not processed (i.e. deleted).

Why is this not working? I added gostarmedia.com to the blocked senders and domains, but I am still getting gostarmedia.com emails! I have also added rules to delete all emails with the words gostarmedia.com in the sender email address.

Why can't you upgrade your blocking rules!!???!!!!!! It is truly frustrating.

1. Regarding Wildcards and Domain Blocking Limitations: Your suggestion about wildcards (*@*.gostarmedia.com) is indeed very valuable, and many users would appreciate more flexible blocking options. Currently, Outlook.com's "Blocked Senders" feature primarily targets complete email addresses or top-level domains (like gostarmedia.com). For more complex subdomain variations, a simple domain block might not be enough to cover all cases.

Please... How do we add wildcards to these domains? How do we block these emails?!

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