How to Report Spam in Yahoo! Mail

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This wikiHow teaches how to report a spam message in Yahoo Mail on your computer, phone, or tablet. When you mark a message as "spam," it will be reported to Yahoo and moved to your spam folder immediately. Future emails from the same sender will automatically land in your spam folder instead of cluttering your inbox.

Steps

Using the Mobile App

Open the Yahoo Mail app on your Android, iPhone, or iPad. It's the purple-and-white envelope icon on your home screen or in the app list.

Tap the message you want to report. The contents of the message will appear.

Tap More. It's at the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Tap Mark as spam. It's near the middle of the menu. This reports the message to Yahoo and moves it to your spam folder. If you accidentally mark a message as spam, you can restore it from the spam folder. To do this, tap the menu at the bottom-left corner (it should say Inbox if you're in the inbox), tap Spam, and then open the message. Tap More at the bottom-right corner and select Not spam.

Using a Computer

Go to https://mail.yahoo.com in your web browser. If you don't see your inbox, follow the on-screen instructions to sign in.

Open the message you want to report. You can do this by clicking the message once in the inbox.

Click the Spam button. It's the icon of a shield with an "x" inside. This reports the spam message to Yahoo and moves it to the spam folder. If you marked a message as spam by accident, you can restore it. Just click the Spam folder in the left panel, select the message, and click Not Spam at the top.