Need gmail/spam help, please.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Typical email is "lowes gift certificate" or it will say "no sender" but it is a $500 gift card, etc

2. The address it comes from is the obvious spam/unsafe type email that I know to look for.

3. I click on report spam and unsubscribe, but to BLOCK them I have to OPEN the email first, I never open them, let alone click on something inside.

4. I have disabled in "images" - and checked following - "ask before displaying external images"

If I OPEN the email only to BLOCK it, am I at ANY risk? I use both a PC and iPhone.

And HOW do I block them from getting them in the future, I get WAY too many in my regular email.

Thanks...

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I am going through the steps on the Chrome browser gmail client and don't experience that.

It lets me report spam and block in one step w/o opening.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. When I get another one I will look, but report spam is what it says, not block, as I recall.

But I will check.

I can only click above where the spam icon is, everything I read says to block you have to open first.

[Tetrachloride]

2. Wikihow for the win

https://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Filter-in-Gmail

Create filters

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Thanks...

[ultralite001]

5. Switch browsers...

Brave... for security...

Vivaldi... for multitasking...

DuckDuckGo... for privacy...

Safari... for Apple users...

Firefox... for all-around use...

That is all...