Email spam filters - rules, help

I have been getting hammered with spam to my .me / .icloud email address. I know this is an Apple mail problem as the email is also going to the .icloud account I have set up for my 9 year old daughter. The problem is I have setup rules to ignore these emails using the from domain (.tk) but the emails still make it to our inbox. All of them have attachments in them and I am scared my daughter will open one these attachments even though I have told her not to open any of the emails.
What I have setup as the rule is as follows:
1. if all > from > contains > .tk
2. move message > to mailbox = junk
Is there any other rule I need to setup to get these messages to skip both our inboxes. These are what these spam emails look like:
I have been forwarding all these to spam@me but that doesn't seem to be doing much help.
Thanks,
Christoper

There could be several reasons why they are still in the inbox. Make sure junk filtering is enabled in Mail's preferences and that you have it set to move junk messages to the junk mailbox and not to leave them in the inbox.
Rules only apply to new incoming messages. If they are being read on another device first, the rule filtering will not be applied to those messages on the computer.
The order of the rules in the rules list is very important. Make sure you have no other rules ahead of it that will cause this particular one not to be applied.
You can test a rule manually by highlighting a message and right click on the message in the list. Choose apply rule. If the rule is good, it should perform the action you have set up.
I assume both you and your daughter have seperate devices and seperate accounts and you can't get it to work on either. I have also been getting these spam messages to one of my iCloud aliases.

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