Can companies pay Google to circumvent the spam filter (gmail)?

Zedicus

I have a gmail account and it's generally very good, in that I don't see any spam apart from that from Google itself (which I don't mind as they are giving the service free).

There is one company, though, who keep sending me emails about 'reports' that they think I might be interested in. This happens about once a fortnight, and, even though they all come from the same email address and I religiously click the spam button, Google will not filter them out.

It's not a major problem but it's annoying to continually click on a button as instructed only to have it ignored.

Azari

Interesting.

Have you succeeded in getting it to block senders in the past?

Generally speaking, spam doesn't seem to be much of a problem, nowadays as ISP's and email providers appear to be able to block it before you even see it.

geerex

Do the emails all come from the exact email address? Sometimes you only block the specific sender and not the actual domain.

kwikbreaks

Add a filter to bin mails from that address

Nodding_Donkey

Make sure you haven't mistakenly whitelisted the address, that would override any spam filter.