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Lately, I have been inundated with spam and setting Rules has not helped. I finally seemed to have solved the problem after I realized that most of the sender's emails ended with .de Consequently, I set up a rule to delete any email that contains .de in the From field, and it seems to be working. I assume that de refers to Germany (Deutschland). I have also received emails ending in .es which I assume is Estonia.
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Jon
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The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.
In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire
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You are right. es is Spain. As it turns out, Estonia is ee.
Jon
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I was having the same issue some time ago. I was also writing rules for the 'de', and many other 2 letter country designations. I looked at the 'full headers' and went to a site that shows the IP addresses where the emails originated. Turns out they were all from my ISP, Comcast, and all from 4 cities in the USA. Began sending all the full headers to my ISP abuse site and the SPAM has slowed to a trickle from over 100 per day.
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Turns out they were all from my ISP, Comcast, and all from 4 cities in the USA. Began sending all the full headers to my ISP abuse site and the SPAM has slowed to a trickle from over 100 per day. Despite your success, in reality almost anything in the email header can be [i]spoofed[i]. The only thing that can be said with any degree of confidence is the odds favor its origin being somewhere on the planet earth. 
If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?
— Albert Einstein
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