How do I get rid of spam email?

Question

Its so aggravating! Only about one in ten things in my Gmail inbox are things that I want! How do I get rid of it? Reporting spam doesn't help much.

Answer 1

the only thing that really works is changing your email address every year or when you start receiving too much spam.

Answer 2

If any of us had the real answer to that, we would be as rich as Bill Gates!! Spam is a fact in the life of computers right now and there really isn't much you can do. Even if you "block" an email from a certain address, that same email can come to you from 50 other addresses. It is totally rampant. The only thing you can do is not give your email address out to anyone but friends/famaily, etc. Don't use it to sign up for anything on the internet...get a webmail account that you don't care about to sin up for stuff like that.

Answer 3

People spam because it works and no one does anything about it.
There is a simple solution:

Everytime you get spam, do a search for the company or stock mentioned. EMAIL them with the spam as an attachment. Mention the subject: Spam with YOUR name used (put name of stock or company in this space)
In the body, offer to help in any criminal or legal action against the spammer and mention that you are forwarding a copy to the proper authorities (do so if you can find them).

If we all do this, a lot of companies are going to be irritated at the bad publicity generated by this, and will do something to stop the spammer involved.

Who's with me?

Answer 4

You can change your email address, or you can create email filters. Go to options and select filters. (see instructions on goggle website)

Second; If the email is coming from the same person, you can subscribe from the email by opening the email and clicking the link at the bottom of the email that allows you to unsubscribe from email messages. If this does not work, create a filter and put the email address in the filter and move all email from that person to your trash folder. Trash is discarded automatically, so you won't have to worry about your inbox. Email me for more help.