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. 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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  2. Anonymous
    2023-12-29T21:36:16+00:00

    Ditto. My Hotmail email is close to 30 years old. I'm quite surprised that no one has been able to figure out how to stop the spam emails from coming through.

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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
    2023-12-21T21:34:38+00:00

    Agree, this is a worthless waste of time. You would think Microsoft or somebody could solve this problem.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-12-21T20:32:51+00:00

    Well said! The more we report, more and more pesky scam emails come. I say, let them eat cake!!!

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