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
    2017-11-27T09:13:43+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 

    The most annoying stuff is that which appears to come from my own email address - I can't block that, only report it as 'phishing' - for what good that does. I've started using SpamCop although not sure I'm doing it properly, and although they ask for donations, I'm not going to pay anything until I'm certain it's having some effect! I expect I'll have to create a new email address at some point, which my daughter has resorted to. It appears to be happening to everyone I know! 

    I can completely understand and sympathise with your plight as it is something I have been battling with for many years. I have some golden rules which I will share with you and others in the hope that it might help:

    1. Do not use Facebook or other social media sites using your personal email. There are lots of other (non MSN sites) offering mail and I often use them as a filter. I only share my personal email  with those I know to be trustworthy such as close friends, family and trusted business associates.
    2. NEVER EVER respond or UNSUBSCRIBE unless you know absolutely that it is a safe site. By doing so you are saying in effect "his there, here I am with my live email address send me some filth, scams etc".
    3. MSN have filters which can be made to work quite effectively but initially you have to work at it to set them up. I started working on that after receiving 50 or so junk/porn/scams per day. No system is foolproof as the world is fool of fools but I have reduced junk/spam to about one or two a day and a couple of clicks get rid of the others.

    I am thinking of posting a list of such rules if MSN will allow me to do that on this site and assuming it can be done (see no reason why not). Let me know if people think this might help.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-27T16:55:28+00:00

    I have blocked and blocked and blocked and still get the same junk emails  something is NOT working..

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-27T17:08:43+00:00

    I have blocked and blocked and blocked and still get the same junk emails  something is NOT working..

    This may be a dumb question... but are your spam emails going into your inbox or your junkmail box?  

    I receive about 30-50 spam/fishing emails per day, but 98% go to my junkmail box.  A Microsoft tech told me (after a couple months of going back and forth) that you cannot do anything about these junk emails going into your junk folder.  

    Also got the same spiel about marking all junk as phishing, and they'll eventually stop coming.  Don't know if I buy that...

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-27T18:00:55+00:00

    I have blocked and blocked and blocked and still get the same junk emails  something is NOT working..

    This may be a dumb question... but are your spam emails going into your inbox or your junkmail box?  

    I receive about 30-50 spam/fishing emails per day, but 98% go to my junkmail box.  A Microsoft tech told me (after a couple months of going back and forth) that you cannot do anything about these junk emails going into your junk folder.  

    Also got the same spiel about marking all junk as phishing, and they'll eventually stop coming.  Don't know if I buy that...

    Most of mine go into my junk box and only about 1 or 2 maybe, a day in my inbox. I'm so sick and tired of them. No sooner do I get them all marked and blocked and more coming in. This is BS.. I've been marking them for months and all the same ones but they are still coming in

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