Filtering junk mail

Several times a day I'm receiving unwanted messages from someone wanting to sell me stock. The entire email address (both sides of "@") changes on every email, as does the subject line. There is never any content in the email itself. The content comes as an attachment.
I haven't been able to figure out a set of rules that will consign these straight to the trash can. Is there a way this can be done?
iMac G4 + PowerBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.6)  

"many of these e-mails get through anyway"
The email gets through to you, and then your rules process it. The rules won't stop the mail coming to your computer, but should help sort it. If you have a rule that checks to see if the sender of a message is in your address book, and if not mark it as junk, then what happens next depends on your junk mail settings. You would need to have "move it to the junk mailbox" selected in the junk preferences.
If this is what you have, and it is not working, then start a new thread with more details in it.
AK

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