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
    2017-11-26T22:41:11+00:00

    Tom

    I'm tempted to send all my junk crap to microsoft and flood their inbox!! I am still getting about 70 a day. Not as many as you are but we are getting many of the same type of spam. I don't use many websites aside from, Facebook, Chewy, Ebay, youtube and other secure sites. I have no idea where all this health, insurance, money loans, sex, and the rest are coming from but I wish to h-ll it would top. I can't begin to imagine what my block list must look like. Microsoft can certainly tell by all the stupidly long email addresses that it's garbage...I'm so tired of it

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-25T18:32:15+00:00

    Thanks. How long did it take SPAMCOP to stop the junk emails after you put the offenders email address in the process box...roughly?   r/tom

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-24T02:17:49+00:00

    Thanks all, for your interest and comments.  Today is another day in email wonderland with a total of (so far) 173 junk or trash emails both in my inbox and in my junk mail folder.  Yup...I phished 'em all! One would think that once an email is phished, they would never again return to your email.  Not so!  The same ones keep reappearing day after day, after I have 'unsubscribed' them, and after so much frustration from this day in and day out deluge, ...Phished them.

    I wonder how all of these emails may be forwarded to Microsoft?  All the suspects, all the phished,. all the junk, all the recurring unsubscribed...just FORWARD them all to Microsoft.  I would be willing to bet a coffee and a barvarian crème doughnut from Sheetz, that they would stand up in a damn hurry and figure out a way to stop the nonsense, and take steps to see that it never happens again. What do you think?

    This is NOT an uncorrectable problem! The software engineers can design a special email folder for all of us minions or just use the existing junk, or call it recall-free...

    tom

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-23T02:55:02+00:00

    Thanks for responding with something useful!  In the last couple of months I started to notice a dramatic increase junk email. Bank loans, Girls from Russia, ED Resolutions, Home Warranty, Skin Cell Fixes, Credit Scores Free, Liquid Marijuana, and of course

    the TAC-800 flashlight that can light up a dark moon! I started by opening them then scrolling down to 'UNSUBSCRIBE'. I did this a couple thousand times.  Then I noticed 'Phishing'. I started mass clicking them on Phishing. Dis a couple thousand more that

    way. But, I still get over a hundred or more a day...90% are repeat offenders. It has become ridiculous.  So, I decided to reach out on the net through Microsoft. Then get some numb-nuts answers. I don't know how to defeat this. Tired of the junk.  Microsoft

    needs to take Phished and deleted junk emails and put them in the 'Basket of Deplorables',assigned to our accounts, and crack down on this waste of out time, filling server and net memory with trash and junk emails.  They need to do something constructive

    with all of their software engineering experience and start to clean this mess up.  I think. It has become totally out of reason.

    I've been getting the "exact" same junk mail.. I get about 50 or 60 a day and tired of it too. Microsoft certainly has the monetary and means to deal with this problem.

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