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
    2025-06-20T16:26:19+00:00

    I'm starting to think a class action against Microsoft might be the way to go.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-20T20:22:24+00:00

    I added how to block these, albeit one at a time and Microsoft removed that post.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-21T02:34:34+00:00

    I am in the same boat as everyone, and the rule thing does not work. Thanks, everyone, for explaining that the rule is not applied to the junk mail. I think if Microsoft would make that small change so that the Outlook rule would apply to the spam folder too everthing would be fixed and everyone would be happy.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-06-21T04:03:52+00:00

    No. The rules don't apply to gostarmedia.com.

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-06-21T12:15:42+00:00

    Many years ago I had created a lot of rules that never worked. I dumped all of them and chalked it up to Microsoft's apparent indifference. Never realized until now that the rules option doesn't apply to the junk folder. Like elsewhere in our contemporary lives, the bad guy gets to reign free and is untouchable.

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