Moved mail appears as "read"

I have a rule which moves the tons of spam I get in the default pop account on website to a folder where I can regularly scan through it and trash it. I've just started using Mail (used Entourage and Outlook for many years) and I've noticed that a large portion of this moved mail appears in the list as "read," that is not in bold-face type.
Is there a chance that Mail is opening these messages as they are being moved? I certainly don't want hundreds of spams being opened.
The rule is
If any account is "webmaster"
then move to webmaster mailbox
That's it. Any ideas?

It could be that there is something wrong with the index. Try rebuilding the mailbox (i.e. select it and do Mailbox > Rebuild) and emptying the Trash. You can also re-create the entire index and the Trash mailboxes as follows.
Verify/repair the startup disk (not just permissions), as described here:
The Repair functions of Disk Utility: what's it all about?
After having fixed all filesystem issues, if any, and making sure that there’s enough space available on the startup disk (a few GB, plus the space needed to make a backup copy of the Mail folder), try this:
1. Quit Mail if it’s running.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/. Make a backup copy of this folder, just in case something goes wrong, e.g. by dragging it to the Desktop while holding the Option (Alt) key down. This is where all your mail is stored.
3. Locate Envelope Index and move it to the Trash. If you see an Envelope Index-journal file there, delete it as well.
4. Delete any Deleted Messages.mbox folders in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/ and ~/Library/Mail/POP-username@mailserver/.
5. Open Mail. It will tell you that your mail needs to be “imported”. Click Continue and Mail will proceed to re-create Envelope Index -- Mail says it’s “importing”, but it just re-creates the index if the mailboxes are already in Mail 2.x format.
Note: For those not familiarized with the ~/ notation, it refers to the user’s home folder, i.e. ~/Library is the Library folder within the user’s home folder.

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