Language specific Junk Mail Settings?

I am having a bit of a problem and i can't seem to find a way around it. I do not receive any Junk e-mail to my main .mac e-mail address except these random japanese / chinese e-mails. I get wo of these a day on average and the e-mail address sent is different every time. I have told Mail that these are junk for the last six months but it doesnt seem to matter.
The only conistant thing is that these junk messages use Japanese or Chinese (I presume as they mostly appear as random odd characters ( for example @>?:^%) than words. Is there any way to tell Mail or set up a rule that any e-mail that has Chinese or Japanese in it is Junk?
Thanks if you can help,
David

Hi Jake,
I think you must have a Rule setup that is doing it before your SPAM or Jink filter takes over.
Not certain, but this can fix myriad Mail problems...
Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then move these folder & file to the Desktop.
Move this Folder to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Caches/Mail/
Move this file to the Desktop...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/Envelope Index
Reboot.
If that doesn't do it and you can afford to redo all your Rules, try these & reboot...
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist
/Users/YourUserName/Library/Mail/MessageRules.plist.backup

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