Better mac mail filters

A string of "Nigerian" varient spams with fanstastical pitches and mangled grammar have been evading my ISP's filters. I have been trying to use Mail
Rules to target "Reply-to" addresses that contain certain top domains when the user is not in my address book.  "From:" is always spoofed.  I can't find a common term or phrase to target in the body of the message.
Maybe I could set up effective filters if I better understood what some of those "Mail Rules" operators actually do.  For example, are the Header selectors case-sensitive? I've created a custom "reply-to" option. Would that catch upper, lower, and mixed case Reply-to's? Does "Contains" work better than "Ends with" when I want to filter by the top domain, e.g.: ".ua"   Is there some wild-card symbol that can be used in the description field ( for example "@*.hk")?
It would be SO satisfying to banish those annoying missives to my Junk folder!
Can anyone recommend a useful site with this kind of information?
Thanks.

Apple Mail is learnable.
If you keep sending enough of these to your junk mail, Apple Mail will look through the entire email and start sending more of these to your Junk folder.
I was getting a lot of crap like this for awhile, but then Apple Mail learned after a period that these were junk and all I do now is send a bulk of Junk emails to Apple Mail's trash and empty it.
It took a few weeks, maybe a month for Apple Mail to finality excise the majority of these emails.
I Don't see any of these any longer.
There might be an easier way to filter these type of emails out that is faster, I hadn't delved into it any farther.
I Just wanted to let you know that if you click on these and select the label as Junk option that, eventually you won't see these any longer.

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