Also report the spam to ACMA (Australian Communications & Media Authority) either anonymously or you can identify yourself at:
Use an email client if you don’t already as you can create the rule to send the spam to Junk mail. As an example of a rule you could put anything containing the line Instagirl in the header to be sent to the junk folder.
Thunderbird email client is free to have and use as an example of one if you need it.
The following is a Rule creation from outlook which shows some of the settings you can make:
Filter Rule setup box from Thunderbird (example only)
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Notice you can select what you want the email client to look for, who it was sent to and who it was from…in the Outlook case it was Google Reviews & for Thunderbird I started with Insta, and what you want to do with the email. I always suggest the junk/spam folder as at least you can look through them before you delete them in case any are mis-filed.
As to clout and CHOICE, the problem isn’t that it isn’t against the law already (it is illegal to send spam). The problem is that the Spammers are very often outside of anyone’s real control. They may reside anywhere in the World, so beyond the authorities catching who they can when they can the responsibility to reduce your Spam is up to you by reporting the spam, using rules in your clients to remove spam, not replying to spam or trying to unsubscribe from it, and turning off preview of any emails you receive. Live, GMail and some others do have reasonable levels of spam control but it won’t catch everything as @draughtrider notes above.
Use disposable email addresses when possible when signing up to sites or surveys etc (a different one for every site etc) as often it is hacked site/survey/busniess data that leads to you ending up on a spammers list. Then if an email arrives that is spam from a disposable address you will know from which site the data was leaked or sold from (some sites do sell this data). You can if needed then remove that address so you no longer receive emails through it and/or you can advise the site they have lost control of their data.
