Spam blocking Gmail on your Android device

- It is probably unusual that you receive unsolicited e-mails. Fortunately you can with the Gmail app on your Android smartphone or tablet much effort to block such emails. In this article we show how to do it the easiest.

Gmail has an automatic spam filter, but it can happen that something slips through the net. In that case, you can indicate this by following these steps.

Open the Gmail app and navigate to the spam message. Press the red menu with the white background and press Report Spam.

Google will use this information to improve its spam filter so that such emails can be quickly identified as spam.

No more mail received from a particular sender? But block.

If you still receive unwanted messages from the same e-mail address, you can block this sender. The emails sent to you from the address you will no longer receive.

Open the Gmail app and navigate to an email from the sender that you want to block. Open the e-mail in question and click in the upper right on the gray menu. Then block [Name].

To undo the block so that the sender can e-mail again, you must repeat the steps above.

To view the senders have you all locked, you have to you have to use a computer. On your computer to Gmail and click the gear icon. Go to Settings gt; Filters and blocked addresses and scroll all the way down.

If you signed up for a mailing list or if you have bought something somewhere, it can happen that you still continue to receive emails you'd rather not have. It is not, because you then have given permission for, but you want to do from there.

In that case, you can opt out by accessing the Gmail app and navigate to such e-mail. Open the mail, press the white menu and select Logout.

If you receive a suspicious email asking for login details, bank details or asked something like that, you can report it. Unfortunately, this can currently only from the computer.

Open Gmail on your computer and open the suspicious email. Make sure you click on any links and opening attachments. In the top right corner of the message on the down arrow next to the Reply button. then click Report Phishing.

Google will use this information so that such messages can be better identified as phishing emails.