Why is my mail heading straight to trash after flickering at the inbox

Several strange things are happening in mail, firstly a huge surge in russian soliciting appearing in my INbox, not in junk email box, these were reported on to mac mail and now mail gone missing, failure to sync etc. I have had to delete address books at mobileme and my two syncing computers and then reload as there were thousands of multiple entries. Completely disparate info merged. Would really like a clean slate, what to do?

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1. Quit Mail.
2. In the Finder, go to ~/Library/Mail/.
3. Move any MessageRules.plist (Mail 2.x) and/or MessageSorting.plist (Mail 1.x) files to the Desktop. This is where Mail stores all the rules, including the rule that governs what the junk filter does.
4. Open Mail. As a result of removing the rules file, the junk filter will be disabled now. You may want to either tell Mail to go offline immediately after opening it, or shut down the Internet connection before opening Mail, to prevent it from downloading anything until the junk mail filter has been enabled again.
5. Go to Preferences > Junk Mail, enable junk filtering, and configure it however you wish.
6. Go online again if you went offline in step 4.
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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