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Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 10:48 AM Jul 2022

Need gmail/spam help, please.

1. Typical email is "lowes gift certificate" or it will say "no sender" but it is a $500 gift card, etc

2. The address it comes from is the obvious spam/unsafe type email that I know to look for.

3. I click on report spam and unsubscribe, but to BLOCK them I have to OPEN the email first, I never open them, let alone click on something inside.

4. I have disabled in "images" - and checked following - "ask before displaying external images"

If I OPEN the email only to BLOCK it, am I at ANY risk? I use both a PC and iPhone.

And HOW do I block them from getting them in the future, I get WAY too many in my regular email.

Thanks...

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Need gmail/spam help, please. (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater Jul 2022 OP
I am going through the steps on the Chrome browser gmail client and don't experience that. CurtEastPoint Jul 2022 #1
When I get another one I will look, but report spam is what it says, not block, as I recall. Eliot Rosewater Jul 2022 #4
Wikihow for the win Tetrachloride Jul 2022 #2
Thanks... Eliot Rosewater Jul 2022 #3
Switch browsers... ultralite001 Jul 2022 #5

CurtEastPoint

(19,229 posts)
1. I am going through the steps on the Chrome browser gmail client and don't experience that.
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 10:53 AM
Jul 2022

It lets me report spam and block in one step w/o opening.

Eliot Rosewater

(32,537 posts)
4. When I get another one I will look, but report spam is what it says, not block, as I recall.
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 12:01 PM
Jul 2022

But I will check.

I can only click above where the spam icon is, everything I read says to block you have to open first.

ultralite001

(1,183 posts)
5. Switch browsers...
Tue Jul 5, 2022, 01:37 PM
Jul 2022

Brave... for security...

Vivaldi... for multitasking...

DuckDuckGo... for privacy...

Safari... for Apple users...

Firefox... for all-around use...

That is all...





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