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
    2025-06-24T11:08:21+00:00

    It is also very patronising that when you report spam you get a message,"if there is no option to unsubscribe Outlook will block these senders!" !!!!!!!!!! I never subscribed in the first place. Does this mean Outlook will do nothing if these spammers include a unsubscribe button which will do nothing.

    Trying to unsubscribe to emails i have never subscribed to just legistimizes spam! I live in UK why would i subscribe to american home warrenty or canvas prints.

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  2. Anonymous
    2025-06-24T10:55:30+00:00

    In the old days rules worked on the junk box , but Microsoft changed it for some reason, no idea why, but very stupid and now we get more junk than ever. It is obvious that there are no legitimate gostarmedia emails, so why allow them to get to us in the first place.

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  3. Anonymous
    2025-06-24T08:33:30+00:00

    No, I was getting a bunch of Gmail emails from someone using a ".me" address. I had to complain to me.com and it stopped those, but the spammers have found another way to flood my junk mail. Now they are using emails sent "via" various different sources (including ".me"). They are smarter than Microsoft or Google.

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  4. Anonymous
    2025-06-24T05:50:09+00:00

    This is BS. I wake up and I have more than 50 gostar spams in my email account. I've just finished reading Sarah Wynn-Williams's book Careless People. The same hand in hand between FB and China and Myanmar seems to be MS and gostar. I've had my hotmail account since 1995; do I have to go to gmail to avoid this avalanche of MS allowed spam??

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  5. Anonymous
    2025-06-24T02:04:25+00:00

    I initially set the flow up to move these ****ing annoying emails to the Deleted folder (to make absolutely sure it wasn't deleting everything in the Junk folder). That worked fine (I was still getting the odd bit of spam from elsewhere that ended up in Junk) and now I have amended the flow to delete the gostarmedia emails I can see them appear briefly (a few seconds) in Junk before they get removed automatically. None have slipped through yet so double check you've got it all set up correctly.

    Totally agree with you about blocking the whole domain - it can't be that difficult to make a change to Outlook so that we can do that!

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