How To Stop Spam Emails

For mass marketing emails that you likely didn’t want a subscription to, there’s a simple way to stop them in their tracks: by either finding the Unsubscribe button in an email sent to you or on the company’s website. The best option is to unsubscribe via the company’s website, as you can be 100% sure you aren’t clicking on a suspicious link. Sometimes, scammers posing as a real company will put unsubscribe links in their emails in order to get you to click on them. From there, your computer could become vulnerable to viruses or you may be sent to a risky website used for phishing purposes.

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Gmail makes it easy to unsubscribe from these sorts of emails, though. When you open an email from a company, next to its name at the top left of the email you’ll see the sender’s email address. Next to that, you should see a grey Unsubscribe button. Clicking on that button will unsubscribe you from those annoying emails so they no longer appear in your inbox (via Google). This is a handy option to ensure that you aren’t clicking on any malicious links. Outlook, the popular Gmail alternative from Microsoft, also offers a prominent Unsubscribe button at the top of emails for quickly removing yourself from unwanted subscriptions.