How To Remove Gmail Image Spam

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I’ve used Yahoo Mail and Hotmail in the past, but Gmail is the best webmail service by far for me. That is until recently, until the amount of Image Spam I received got out of control.

Spammers latest trick is to embed the spam content in an image which is included as an attachment. Gmail unfortunately doesn’t scan attachments so the spam emails make it through.

I’ve been playing around to find a way to block these image spam emails and I’ve finally cracked it. To get rid of the image spam do the following:

1. Go Into Gmail and click on ‘create a filter’
2. Type ‘multipart/related .gif’ in the ‘Has The Words’ fields
3. Optional: If you receive photos or images from friends, then to stop their emails being identified as spam and deleted then enter their email addresses in the ‘doesn’t have’ field
4. Tick ‘Has Attachment’
5. Click on ‘Next Step’
6. Then tick on ‘Delete it’

This will move all image spam emails to your gmail trash folder where they will be automatically deleted after 30 days.

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