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Just forward those emails to sp@mnesty.com[0] with your personal info removed from the subject and body.

You can also send abuse reports with the help of SpamCop[1].

And of course, if you use GMail/Google Inbox, marking them as spam also helps.

marking as spam on GMail really works? I do get a lot of similar emails, and I'm always marking as spam and it still get to my inbox. Not really sure how does GMails learns about spam, which fields it considers (just sender? subject? specific words?)?

Okay, you've got me, I don't actually know.

But I think I remember seeing emails in spam with an explanation text that said 'this went to spam cause you marked similar messages as spam'.

Also, it seems to be learning when I move emails to Promotions/Forums/Updates/etc., so I don't see why this wouldn't be the case for Spam. Maybe it's only for my account though.

We tried to analyze this behavior over employee inboxes on a company using Gmail exclusively and we saw that the users that routinely use the spam button as often or instead of the trash button are ignored on the spam markings (not reported to Amazon SES as spam). I think too many users have gotten used to abusing the spam button like that and that's why Google is ignoring those users.

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