How to Report Spam in Gmail
To report an email as spam right in your browser and improve the Gmail spam filter specifically for you in the future:
How to Report Spam in Gmail in a Mobile Browser
To report an email as spam in the Gmail mobile web browser:
How to Report Spam in Gmail in the Gmail App
To report a message as spam in the Gmail app for Android and iOS mobile devices:
How to Report Spam in Gmail in an IMAP Email Client
To report spam if you access IMAP, move the message or messages to the Gmail Spam folder.
Reporting Spam Strengthens Your Gmail Spam Filter
The more spam you teach Gmail to recognize, the less spam you get in your inbox. You help Gmail’s spam filter learn by showing it the junk that made it to your inbox. Reporting spam is easy and not only rids you of similar junk in the future but also purges the offending message immediately.
Blocking: An Alternative for Individual Senders but Not Spammers
For messages from specific, obnoxious senders, blocking is usually the better option than reporting the messages as spam. Chances are, the emails don’t look like typical spam, so they may confuse the spam filter more than they help. Use blocking only for individual senders—people who forward you messages, for instance—and not for spam. Senders of spam emails do not usually have identifiable addresses that remain the same. Typically, the address is random, so blocking the lone email does nothing to stop the inflow of spam.
