Is there any point to reporting phishing emails?

Anonymous
2022-11-30T17:50:08+00:00

I'm using Outlook.live and I get upwards of 50 phishing emails a day. I report them all... every day. This has been going on for years. I get the same type and look of email even though the sender address constantly changes. Most are just a few block sentences, centered, no frills, that says Congratulations you won..., Click here for your prize..., Click here for this... Click here for that...

Blocking senders is a waste of time. They are always different. I thought Microsoft would be able to block based on content but I'm getting the same stuff over and over... Same stuff I've reported as phishing for years so it doesn't appear that the hundreds of thousands of emails I've reported are being looked at by anyone.

Is there no filtering on Microsoft's side? If there is, why is it not working... if not why report the phishing emails??

sr

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  1. Ron-6928 4,991 Reputation points
    2024-02-16T15:42:44+00:00

    I find that reporting option almost useless. Most of the time they disagree with me when I tell them it is spam/phishing, their verdict is often the opposite. Nope, sorry it ain't phishing/spam, don't care what you think it is... our decision is final. I stop reporting those crap. Delete is faster.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-29T21:43:53+00:00

    And that flaw is that they don’t care enough to make it more robust and protect their users. They don’t even care that fraudulent emails supposedly from Microsoft itself regularly show up in my email.

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-12-29T21:34:34+00:00

    I have been bombarded with spam emails for months now. I finally contacted Microsoft via Messenger and they said to just delete them. They said reporting them as phishing or blocking them does no good, due to a flaw in their system.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-07-17T23:57:51+00:00

    I've complained about this before, because I get hundreds of junk emails every week (many exact duplicates save the sender address) and while most of them filter into Junk, I still have to deal with them and they still take up room. I can't do a wholesale delete of emails in Junk, as some legit emails go there. However, creating rules on items that automatically go into Junk is a waste of time, as those rules only work on emails in the Inbox. So my option is to continue to manually filter those **** emails, or mark spam/phishing messages as "not junk" and then create a filter, which is not optimal and possibly dangerous. Why does Microsoft not care enough to change this? It's been an issue for many years now.

    It seems as though it's a clear waste of time to either mark emails as phishing or block the sender, as they will just change a few characters in the address and send more garbage.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-06-22T15:56:46+00:00

    How long do they need this fiasco has been going on for well over 12 months.

    They are a joke.

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