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Spam is not only annoying, but often dangerous too. Phishing emails sneak access data and nobody needs advertising for dubious sexual enhancement products from China. Fortunately, you can report this kind of spam and have it filtered. GIGA explains how this works with various large sites.

Spam isn’t just email. It is also available as news on Facebook and Twitter. This is why the ways in which you can report spam differ. We’ll show you who to turn to or what to click.

Our video shows you one of the dangers of spam emails:

Report spam to GMX & Web.de

The offers from GMX and Web.de belong to the same group of companies and, by and large, work the same. That is why we have summarized here how you can report spam on GMX or Web.de.

If you have logged in to one of the two services in the webmail view, you can report every opened email as spam. As I said: This assumes that you have called up the website gmx.net or web.de and registered there. A spam report in the e-mail program is pointless.

If you have opened an email, you will see a few buttons above, directly above the email. One of them is called “Spam”. If you click on it, the email will be moved to the spam folder and the automatic spam detection will learn from it at the same time.

In order for this to work properly, you have to activate the “Improved spam detection of unwanted emails” for both services. Otherwise, GMX and Web.de keep themselves out of the spam mails you have recognized and learn nothing from them.

• Log into your email account.
• Click on “Settings“And then on”Spam detection“.
• Now expand the window areas “Improved spam detection of unwanted emails” and “Improved spam detection of wanted emails“. Check the box there and click on “to save“.

From this moment on, every incoming e-mail is checked to see whether it is spam.

Report spam or phishing to Gmail

Gmail has a very good spam filter that rarely makes it into your inbox. If that does happen, you have two options:

1. You open the email and click on “Spam” at the top of the window. Then the email is moved to the spam folder and Gmail learns to recognize these messages as spam.
2. Or you open the email and then click at the top right on the three dots (⁝). This will open a menu in which you can choose to send the email to Google as a Report phishing attempt or spam can.

Report spam to Facebook

If you want to report spam that has been posted as a Facebook post or comment, you can do this very easily:

1. At the top right of every post or directly to the right of every comment you will see three points (···). Click on it.
2. A menu opens in which either (for Facebook posts) it says “Get support or report a post“Or”Give feedback or report this comment“(For comments).
3. If you click on it, a window opens in which you can report spam as well as various other violations.

Report spam and phishing sites to PayPal or Amazon

PayPal and Amazon accounts are particularly worthwhile for criminals because they can order goods or transfer money at your expense. That is why there are always e-mails with the subject that the “PayPal account has been blocked” and you should enter your login data on a deceptively simulated page.

Under no circumstances should you click the links in such e-mails and instead forward them to PayPal or Amazon.

Report spam and phishing to PayPal: spoof@paypal.com

Forward spam emails to Amazon: stop-spoofing@amazon.com

It is best to forward the mail as an attachment so that the header data is also included. You don’t have to write anything else, the companies will examine the emails and take appropriate action.

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