Tips to identify and manage spam email

Most of the time, email is an excellent way to communicate with friends and family. On occasion you might receive unsolicited or irrelevant emails for the purpose of advertising, trying to obtain personal data or spreading viruses. This is considered spam.

Here are some suggestions for identifying spam:

Report spam using the button in your TELUS email powered by Google.

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You can mark or unmark emails as spam. Google also automatically identifies spam and other suspicious emails and sends them to "Spam."

As you report more spam, Gmail is better able to automatically mark similar messages as spam.

: When you click the "report spam" icon or manually move an email into your Spam folder, Google will receive a copy of the email and may analyze it to help protect our users from spam and abuse.

You can remove an email from Spam if you incorrectly marked it as spam:

: To stop a message from being sent to Spam in the future, you can: