I really hate spam.

Ok, I didn't know where to put this so mods, feel free to move it. Here's the deal:

I use gmail and it gets a few spam emails a day but this morning when I got into work I had 70 spam emails waiting for me all from the same "person" - the same email address. The problem is that it's emailing spam every 30 seconds. You can only imagine how annoying this is. How do I stop it? Is there a way to block it?? It's driving me INSANE!

 

I tried setting up a filter but it doesn't recognize the emails I'm getting. I would like to either block it completely or set it up to go directly to the trash (which a filter SHOULD do) but I can't really get either to work.

I'm never on the same computer so I'm not running outlook or thunderbird or anything.

As far as reporting abuse goes, I was looking at gmail's site and I'm not sure I can report abuse if it's not coming from a gmail account. The email address I'm receiving them from is "madelo@bpd.treas.gov".

I am seriously ready to kill someone.

 

Ok, they've stopped...for now. I forwarded one of the emails to the FTC (spam@uce.gov) and they stopped. So now I'll just keep my fingers crossed!

 

what is FTC?

And thanks Halo and Major Attititude. Good links.
abri

 

This is a great site, Halo!
Thanks!
abri