First of all, never respond to such a message. Not even to remove your address from a distribution list.

Complaints.

If the sender of the message is a TU/e student or employee (that is, if the sender's address ends with 'tue.nl'), please forward the message to the  abuse-mailbox.

If you do this, please make sure you include the internet headers of the message, as these contain important information regarding the origin of the message. Unfortunately, Outlook does not automatically include these headers when forwarding a message.
If you are using Outlook, please copy the headers into the forwarded message manually.

You can do this as follows:
Open the message in question. In the View menu, you can make the headers visible via Options. Select the headers with the mouse, and use Ctrl+C to copy them to the clipboard.
From there, you can copy them into the message.

Automatically filtering spam mail

There are ways to transfer spam mail automatically to a "junk folder", so that it is separated from "normal" mail immediately upon reception. These automated methods are fairly reliabel nowadays. From the junk folder you can, after a quick check for false positives, remove all spam mail in one go.

Use the pages below, how to filter spam from your e-mail. In Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003. If you use another e-mail program, you can install, for example, SpamBayesSpamBayes.