Accidentally signed up for spam how do I get rid of it?

[morpheos137]

I have a gmail account. As of several weeks ago I guess I accidentally signed up for SPAM. It is from different addresses and different subject lines. The spam is primarily career opportunity spam. It is not legitimate job opportunities but BS spam like "Last notice: Walmart interview monday." It is ridiculous. I wonder who is making money off this spam? Seems like maybe a click fraud scheme or something. Also I got the traditional ED spam too. It is really frustrating because until a few weeks ago my gmail, which I have used for almost 10 years was relatively spam free, now it is full of spam everyday. I tried setting up some filters but as the sending and subject is different each time it is hard to filter it all out. On top of all this I am trying to find another job...so I can't just delete every email having the word "job" in the subject line...but I am flooded with bullshit job offers. I have tried aggressively marking the spam as such using the gmail button for that...but still it keeps coming. Almost looking like I need to get a new email address.

[zzo38computer]

I do something else to avoid such things, which is I use a different email address for each correspondent. If I accidentally sign up for spam, I can just remove that address from the /etc/aliases file and then they won't be able to send any more spam to my email. (I have also configured my email so that it only supports aliases, and not actual user names.)

[simonblack]

Click the 'Spam' button on your mail reader. Every time. Your mail server will learn in a while to send all messages from that company to the spam folder.

Companies that do this sort of thing - spam - should be consigned to the trash heap of history.

[yuppie_scum]

Click the unsubscribe link. They are required by law to remove you within 72 hours.

If they still bug you, make a rule that marks mail from their domain as read and moves I’m existent to trash.

[Jeremy1026 → yuppie_scum]

> different addresses and different subject lines

For your first point, I doubt people going through this level of obfuscation is going to care about what some pesky law says.

For your second point, if they are coming from different address the domains are probably also being spoofed.