Spam from a gmail address

[#1]

I am receiving one, maybe two emails a day to one of my addresses from a gmail address (the same one each time), each however from a different 'sender' and domain. I report these as spam using webmail - note I don't download them as I use Mailwasher to filter ALL my incoming mail - but there appears no way to report the abusing originating address to Gmail.

Anyone got any advice?

[#2]

https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse

[#3]

Pretty much everything relating to emails (as with telephones) can be faked, just delete them. Little or no point in reporting anything to anyone.

If there's any repeated consistency amenable to your email filtering/spam protection you could try adding some identification rules, but it will probably become ineffective as they change/evolve.

I find spam tends to arrive in bursts, after a few days something new takes over and they move on.

Recently I had dozens of apparent automated responses to complaints I'd raised to various bodies (none were genuine) but after a few days they just stopped arriving. I just deleted them as I knew they wouldn't stay in any consistent format.

[#4]

@MisterW Thanks - I'll report the next one I get. Couldn't find that form on Google - maybe I'm getting too tired 😀

@HPsauce I'm well aware of that thanks - and also aware of how to find the true origin of an email. I know I could set up rules within MW, but as you say, they (the sender) could modify something - in fact they do - the subject line and the 'sending' address.

This has been happening from the same source for over fortnight now. It is only a few clicks to 'bin'it, but it is a nuisance and I don't have the patience I used to have.

[#5]

@jab1 Good luck, though personally I wouldn't bother. I presume you're looking in detail at the headers.

However as a retired IT manager I can assure you these are not that reliable and can be faked too, or someone/something may just be exploiting a compromised account until the owner is alerted and secures it, or they just move on.

[#6]

@HPsauce I can but try. Yes I am looking at the detailed headers. One of the beauties of MW is that it allows for the full display of them, and if my experience over the past 2-3 weeks is anything to go by, apart from the 'sending' address and 'subject' they are identical, so even if they are 'faking' anything else, they are not doing it very well.

No natter - I shall report the next couple - cba to spend too much time on it, as deleting them is fairly simple/

[#7]

I have reported today's junk to Gmail - let us see if it has any effect. Doubt it will, but...