When phishing scams are reported to Outlook what happens to them?

Anonymous
2013-08-15T03:33:40+00:00

I reported two phishing scams to Outlook by clicking on the drop down "report phishing scam" in the Outlook mail app. Where does the phish e-mail go and is it reported to the genuine company, in this case a bank? Also, why can't a suspicious e-mail be forwarded to a reporting agency without opening it and exposing my computer and possibly my contact list to the bad guys?

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Anonymous
2016-08-28T22:07:02+00:00

Hi,

To block a specific sender, you can find the instructions by clicking this link. This should help in getting your query solved.

Regards.

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  1. Anonymous
    2018-01-20T11:20:35+00:00

    Hi,

    To block a specific sender, you can find the instructions by clicking this link. This should help in getting your query solved.

    Regards.

    That's all well and good, but with the amount of crap that Microsoft lets through, many have run out of space for Blocked senders, Sweep, rules etc. So, unless you PAY you're forced to get the same crap in your inbox every day. I delete appx 20-25 each day and have to recover 10 or from junk that I WANT AND have marked as safe

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-12-04T01:13:00+00:00

    It did.  It stopped all of it. Where is the version of Adblock for all the spam, junk and preposterous email cluttering up the system?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-12-04T01:05:41+00:00

    It represents a divergence of computerism into our own privacy, which is in my opinion, describes the mission of junk, spam email, sent without our request, and subjecting us to all sorts of nonsense we, I think, don't need without being asked.

    The junk is gaining and I see a plateau in site with help of available programs found here like spamdoc.  Thank you.  OUT R/Tom

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-12-03T21:45:35+00:00

    Actually, he was replying specifically to Thomas Whitman's post about receiving pop-ups on his MSN Homepage screen. 

    AdBlock would indeed stop those.

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