Spam email from faux Apple

Sorry, this is in the wrong section but I found none that made sense for my issue.
I've been recieving emails from apple... well actually they are apparently coming from my own email address (gmail account). But they are "from" apple explaining that someone is trying to purchase World War Z from Switzerland, in french. It provides links to change my password and askes for credit card information... blah blah blah, obviously fake. Because it's coming from my address I have no clue how to deal with it? I do send myself emails once in a while from work to home or wtv so I'd rather not block my own email... Anyways, any ideas of what I can do to provent this from happening? I've had 5 of them since the 24th of December.
Thanks,
Notes...
I see the emails in the mail.app as well as on gmail.com
They show up in my sent folder in both mail and on gmail
Email:
Chère/Cher ,
Votre identifiant Apple vient d'être utilisé pour acheter World War Z dans l'App Store sur un ordinateur ou un appareil qui ne lui a pas été associé auparavant. Il se peut aussi que vous receviez ce message si vous avez réinitialisé votre mot de passe depuis votre dernier achat.
Cet achat a été effectué dans le pays suivant : Switzerland .
Si vous êtes à l'origine de ce téléchargement, vous pouvez ignorer ce courriel. Il vous a été envoyé par mesure de sécurité, afin de vous protéger d'éventuels achats non autorisés.
Si vous n'avez pas effectué cet achat, nous vous recommandons de vous rendre sur iforgot.apple.com pour changer votre mot de passe, puis de visiter la page Identifiant Apple : sécurité et identifiant Apple pour obtenir plus d'assistance.
Cordialement,
Apple
iforgot.apple.com brings me to http://drewmatich.com/ and the below page. I've used whois.com to find an email that was linked to drewmatich and have asked them to stop. I will post any replies if I recieve any.

Thank you for your input... I found this through the link you provided and confirm that noone other then myself have acessed my gmail. (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50200?hl=en&ref_topic=3406179)

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