Mark as phishing
There is no option to mark something as phishing. You can only mark something as "unwanted" (translated from Danish). Even clicking on this is not removing the mail from the inbox folder.
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Shannon Jacobs
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Phishing attack report? I do not want to post the header information in public, which is what this seems to be sometimes. The attack seems to be on my Outlook account via a different email system. It certainly appears that your recent changes have made this a much WORSE email system. I'm desperate for a better option than Gmail, but it seems safe to conclude Microsoft will NEVER offer it. Even if you somehow managed to offer some superior features, you have earned so much distrust that the google will have plenty of time to match your new features before I would be able to trust you enough to move my routings.
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Ignacio Harari
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I'm getting these almost daily. It's always some whatever subject alluding to some sort of emergency or problem with my account, yet even though the sender account's name is always something similar to "Paypal" (which is what oulook decides to show) hovering over it you can easily see that the email address is garbled nonsense.
If you can't filter it automatically from the several obvious clues that it is phishing, couldn't you AT LEAST block email addresses that have "Paypal" (or other similar names) on their display name but DON'T come from an official Paypal domain? It shouldn't be THAT difficult....
It pains me to think of how many poor souls actually fall for these scams because outlook's design almost ENCOURAGES it by hiding the email address and showing an account name that seems legitimate.
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Anonymous
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So, does it do any good to try to report phishing or block emails? Because I still get them.
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rkoppenol@hotmail.com
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Why are reported phishing scams send to the deleted items box in stead of permanently deleted?
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m.sbaa
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Why do I still receive emails that have failed the DKIM process? Please give us at least the option to block those emails as well.
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olefeirup@hotmail.com
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REPORTING PHISHING PRODUCES ABSOLUTELY NO RESULTS AT ALL
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Anonymous
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Please start marking the phishing attack Apple e-mails as junk and stop allowing my inbox to fill up. These e-mails all look almost identical, and I report every single one of them as a phishing attempt. Am I just wasting my time by reporting it as such since Microsoft seems to do thing about my reports?
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J Garland
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I am very frustrated with the way junk email is handled. I mark everything as phishing and it goes into the trash. Then I have to put all the spam back into the junk folder to Block. I block and it goes back into the trash folder but doesn't delete. Now all that spam email is mix in with my trash and I have about 800 emails in this folder. I don't want to deal with spam after it's deleted
This is not the way spam was handled before. I was able to mark as phishing in the junk box, it goes into the trash, I block it and it's gone.
There should be a way to report as phishing spam and to block all at the same time and be deleted.
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chris
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someone used this email Tylermacinnis@hotmail.com to fraud me out of some money. this is the email the transfer went too...is there anything that can be done at your end?
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ehecker
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Reported emails as phishing, they are now showing up in my inbox!
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Keira
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I keep getting phishing mails with the same name, SOMEONE WHO I KNEW THAT IS DEAD!!!!!!!!
When will you actually stop putting these in my deleted folder and actually NOT let it through. you are not helping AT ALL against phishing and thanks for popping my dead fiend up every time. You truly suck! -
Anonymous
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I have been religiously marking scammer spam as "phishing" attempts for I don't know how many YEARS now. I go through my “Junk Email” (and sometimes the “Focused” and “Other”) folders and find the "phishing" emails and mark them as such.
Why has this not impacted the number of spam emails I receive in the slightest? Why do I get phishing emails from the same scammer even though I have made the effort to mark that mail as phishing? Am I wasting my time? Are you doing anything about this? -
d.j.david@outlook.com
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In the last 4-5 months it seems like more and more obvious scams are getting through Outlook.com's filters. By obvious, I mean addresses containing long strings of incoherent letters and numbers telling me to verify "my account" or similar.
I'm not sure what changed from just a few months ago, because I used to never see these in my normal inbox; they were accurately flagged as spam.
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Flavien G.
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The app is missing the 'mark as phishing' feature. It should be added for well informed users can quickly raise the alarm. Thank you
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niyiadedoyin@hotmail.com
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I am getting phishing e-mails sent to me on a daily basis. How do I stop this
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C HARVEY
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Provide a phishing option just for pornographic emails so they can be blocked forever. Currently there is no way to report ****** emails. It would be nice to block emails with specific words.
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outlook_D767E6BA7C91C71F
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Does the phishing report button do anything at all? I’ve reported the same incredibly obvious Apple phishing scam emails over and over again for years, and they keep coming. I get more phishing emails than regular mail at this point! Outlook mail is at this point useless, and dangerous.
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Anonymous
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If I select all in Junk Mail, the options to block or report as phishing scams don't come up. I have to go and select all of them individually.
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Anonymous
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If I select all in Junk Mail, the options to block or report as phishing scams don't come up. I have to go and select all of them individually.
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mb
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I get a lot of phishing emails. Shouldn't it be simple enough to create a flag or function to check for something like this"
Impersonating large tech companies
- e.g. "Apple Account Security Update" in subject line but the real sender is some random address not at all related to Apple like "fxwrjj0wic8@goldgsuitese.com"
- the links provided in the email (e.g. if I click on "Go to Apple ID Account") or also not at all Apple related, like this monstrosity:This seems like a very basic and fairly foolproof check to at least flag it as spam if not malicious phishing.
