How To Report a Fraudulent Gmail Account

Yogesh Sapkale 22 January 2020

Life

Our fight against unsolicited commercial communication (UCC) or spam messages aimed at conning us is not going to end. While email service-providers do have filters to separate such emails, spammers or hackers behind it keep changing email IDs from which such mail is sent. This makes it difficult for the spam filters to detect and move these mails to spam box or folders.

Phishing e-mails pretend to be from a financial, or other trusted, institution; but these actually contain links to genuine-looking but fraudulent websites that try to steal personal information or extract some money.

Some spammers even impersonate reputed organisations or product-maker or service-provider. Recently, we received an email that gave 'serious warning' about our YouTube channel!

You can create separate filters for your email accounts for such fraudulent emails. Email managers, like Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird, also offer tools to mark mails as spam.

In addition, if you are receiving UCC or spamming emails from a Gmail ID, you can report this to Google. Based on the nature of the complaint, violation of policies and terms of use, Google would take necessary action. Here is how you can report a fraudulent Gmail account.

1. Visit https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse?hl=en.

2. Provide the email address on which you have received the spam email.

3. Share complete Gmail address of the person who has sent you the email.

4. Provide email headers of the message. To obtain the email headers in Gmail, click the down arrow next to the reply button, and select 'Show original'. Copy the text and paste in the box provided at the above link.

a. Outlook: Open Outlook. Open the email you want to see the headers for. Click File and then Properties. The headers will show in the ‘Internet headers’ box.

b. Mozilla Thunderbird: Open the email you want to see the headers for. Click View and then on Message Source. The headers will show in a new window.

c. Apple Mail: Open the email you want to see the headers for. Click View and then Message and then All Headers. The headers will show in the window below your inbox.

5. Share the original subject-line of the dubious message.

6. Share the content of the questionable message (paste the entire body of the message in the provided space on the above link).

7. You can also share any other additional information in the text box.

8. Select yes, if the email you had received, appear to be from someone impersonating Google.

9. Submit your complaint.

Comments

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sindhuakshana

1 year ago

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vitala

2 years ago

Don't waste your time. Google does not care. Just block the sender in your gmail and that's it. Whatever you do in addition to this simple action, gives zero result. I repeat, Google does not care. Google does not give a rats ass about individual reports. I can tell that after I submitted more than 100 abuse reports to Google.

jackiebuffett

3 years ago

If those Gmail account regular users, and there are many, duh, get the BS emails would just report them, Google would be inundated with reporting messages and maybe see we are pissed off and actually do something about the issue. By not dealing with it, they would show by lack of action because they just don't care.
Otherwise, if we all just stop using Google over time, and all of their apps created , they would become irrelevant as no one would want the inconvenience anymore.

kristinerepatacodo

3 years ago

[email protected] Need to report this account, this is a scammer and a hacker. Getting a Tiktok Account from influencers

ryann.sull22800

Replied to kristinerepatacodo comment 3 years ago

You will need to fill out the google form I have done this many times and the account I never receive another email from ever again

vitala

Replied to ryann.sull22800 comment 2 years ago

This is not true. You don't get anything from the reported addresses because spammers/scammers use them only one time. In my case, I reported a dozen of Gmail accounts a dozen times each, and I still receive emails from them. Google does not care. Google does nothing. Google is evil corp.

11kyork11

3 years ago

That is a ridiculous amount of work for the hundreds of emails I get a week from spammers using a gmail.com account.

irfanidrus00

3 years ago

Please report my old account [email protected].. My account has been hacked by someone

ryann.sull22800

Replied to irfanidrus00 comment 3 years ago

If you have a hacked account reporting won’t do anything unless someone uses the email as sends spam email go to google recovery to recover your account

magretmcscott000

Replied to ryann.sull22800 comment 3 years ago

okay

asdiibaba012

4 years ago

Hello

Kinkysud

4 years ago

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This Gmail user be tagged as fraud .Reported it many times but it's still there.Gleck Consulting pvt ltd Bangalore is the adress given on google.please guide me how to report his ids

wb4yjt

4 years ago

What a stupid process! If Google really cared there would be an email address to forward scam emails to!

bobr4229

Replied to wb4yjt comment 4 years ago

As I recall from my IT career, the email headers that Google is asking for (important in order to trace the true source of the email) are not included when a message is forwarded; they will only get the headers from YOUR message.

jcbpreston412

Replied to bobr4229 comment 3 years ago

True

bobheatingguy

5 years ago

If Google was serious about us reporting abusive accounts, they wouldn’t have made the process so time consuming and inconvenient. Seriously, all the information they want is contained within the message if you just forward the message to a spam mailbox they could set up. Many organizations and companies (like Geico for example) simply ask you to forward any spam to their special inbox. Cmon Google, get serious for once.

40kwashacked

Replied to bobheatingguy comment 4 years ago

Because it's likely an automated process using an algorithm that needs to have everything separated. You know how Google likes to automate everything that shouldn't be automated.

profy60

Replied to 40kwashacked comment 4 years ago

LoL ,

and Spam only becomes more, all because the vaunted Google stupidly cannot configure its filters.