The following information helps you defend against being mailbombed. To perform a mailbox attack, an attacker only needs to know your email address. With Gmail, you can take steps to stop or prevent your account from being mailbombed. Protect your account from mailbombingĪ mailbomb is a form of attack designed to prevent you from using your email account or finding legitimate emails. Report abuse of any Google serviceįor instructions on reporting the abuse of Google services that might send emails to you, go to Report a violation. To learn about Google’s policies for acceptable use of Gmail and what to do if another Gmail account violated any of these policies, go to Gmail Program Policies. If you suspect that you received a message from a Gmail account that is impersonating an individual or organization, go to This message may not have been sent by… Stop a Gmail account from impersonating an individual or organization If a user violates Gmail's Program Policies or Terms of Use, fill out the form to Report messages that violate Gmail Program Policies. Tip: If you blocked someone by mistake, you can unblock them using the same steps. When you block a sender, their messages will go to your Spam folder. Let your contact know by another means (for example, phone or instant message) that their email account might be hacked. Suggest they follow these Gmail security tips.You continue to get email from this contact in the future. This action sends a report to the Gmail team to investigate. To report the email, in the spam alert, click Message looks suspicious.If someone on your contacts list sends you spam, a hacker might have taken over their account. If you receive spam from one of your contacts For details, see Prevent mail to Gmail users from being blocked or sent to spam. Note: If legitimate email is still being sent to spam after you’ve added the sender as a contact and set up a filter, make sure the sender is following our sender guidelines. For details, visit Create rules to filter your emails. For instructions, go to Add, move, or import contacts. To prevent a message from being sent to spam, you can: Follow the steps to Mark or unmark emails as spam. Mark or unmark email as spamįor email you received that you consider spam, mark it as such. You can protect yourself from unwanted email in your Gmail inbox, such as spam, mailbombs, or messages from an account that has abused Gmail’s policies.

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