More junk mail since I've made and applied rules...why?

I was getting 6-8 junk emails a day. It was recommended that I use rules to delete them and prevent them from re-occuring. Now that I have applied the rules I am getting two to three times more junk mail. Why is this happening?

iSki123 wrote:
I was getting 6-8 junk emails a day. It was recommended that I use rules to delete them and prevent them from re-occuring. Now that I have applied the rules I am getting two to three times more junk mail. Why is this happening?
Because your email address has made the spammer's top ten list.
The rules won't prevent spam. They just move the spam to the trash.
Do you have the Junk mail filtering turned on in Mail's preferences?
It will attempt to identify incoming spam and move it into the Junk folder. If it doesn't catch a message, you can mark that message as junk and it might start learning that messages like that are junk. Also, it may catch some messages that are not junk. So, you have to periodically peruse the Junk mail folder to see if it has caught anything legitimate. You can mark those as Not Junk so that it will learn not to catch those.
"Thumbs Down" button marks it as Junk
The button turns to a "Thumbs Up" to mark it as "Not Junk". Also, there will be a banner across the top of the message where you can mark it as "Not Junk."
It is also advisable to set Mail so that it doesn't show remote images. When those images are loaded, the spammer can tell that you opened them because they are retrieved from their servers. That validates you email to them and they now have a more valuable email address they can sell to other spammers.

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