How Do I Report Spam in Gmail?
By the Spamtrace team. . 2 minute read.
To report spam in Gmail, open the email on a computer and click the Report spam button at the top, which looks like an exclamation mark in a stop sign. The email moves to your Spam folder. To also tell the network that sent it, copy the original email and report it to its abuse team.
How do you mark an email as spam in Gmail?
- Open Gmail on a computer and check the box next to the email, or open the email.
- Click the Report spam button at the top. It looks like an exclamation mark in a stop sign.
- The email moves to your Spam folder, and Gmail learns from it.
In the Gmail phone app, open the email, tap the three dots at the top right, and tap Report spam. Gmail's menus change from time to time, so yours may look a little different.
How do you report a phishing email in Gmail?
A phishing email pretends to be a company you trust, such as your bank, to steal your password or money.
- Open the email.
- Click the three dots at the top right, next to the reply arrow.
- Click Report phishing.
How do you copy the original email from Gmail?
To trace an email to the real sender, you need its full original text, including the hidden record of where it has been. Please do not forward it, because forwarding erases that record.
- Open the email on a computer.
- Click the three dots at the top right.
- Click Show original. A new tab opens.
- Click Copy to clipboard.
Then paste it into Spamtrace. We find the network that really sent the email and draft a report to its abuse team. You read the report before anything is sent.
Does reporting spam in Gmail stop it?
It helps protect your own inbox, and it gives Gmail information about the sender. But the spammer's network is not told directly, so the sender can carry on from the same place. A report to the network's abuse team is what can get a sender shut down, although not every company acts on reports.