[CrimsonRain]

Those who do, don't have a way to prevent it in future.

Some same guy keeps using my email address as their recovery email for Gmail every few days. And I have to detach it again and again. Amazing spam by Google. Nobody can do anything.

[hddqsb]

I'm curious, have you ever tried contacting that guy and explaining that he shouldn't use your email address?

This design seems like a surprising oversight on Google's part. The correct design is to only add the recovery account if a verification link is clicked (which is in fact what they do for enabling mail forwarding). That way you could simply create a filter to mark the requests from that guy as spam. However, being the recovery address of this guy doesn't seem like such a serious problem – it should be relatively easy to filter the emails that Gmail sends to recovery accounts (something like "from:[e-mail] <guy's email address>").

[yellow_lead]

I can think of a way to permanently correct that :)