Marking Email as Junk or Phishing

Nick Pitre

Created Nov 07, 2022

Marking Email as Junk or Phishing

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Your first step will be to determine if the Email is Junk or a Phishing attempt.

Junk - usually an advertisement of some sort for a store/product/service or any other unwanted email from an untrusted source. Think of junk email as a digital form of the junk mail you get to your home address.

Phishing - Phishing is a message disguised as something from a trusted source/company. It is important to NEVER click on anything in these emails. These emails can seem urgent in nature, friendly, time sensitive, etc. to grab your attention. Phishing attempts are meant to steal personal information. When in doubt about a phishing attempt, contact the sender directly by phone and verify if the email is legitimate, otherwise, mark it as phish.

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Here are some examples of Junk email

Here are some examples of Junk email
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This is an example of a phishing attempt.

This is an example of a phishing attempt.
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To report an email as Junk:

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Click the email in question

Click the email in question
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Then, click the 3 dots in the top right corner

Then, click the 3 dots in the top right corner
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Go down to Junk

Go down to Junk
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Then block sender!

Then block sender!
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After you block a sender, you will get this message, and you're done.

After you block a sender, you will get this message, and you're done.
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To mark an email as Phishing:

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Double click the email in question

Double click the email in question
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Click Phish Alert in the top right corner

Click Phish Alert in the top right corner
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Click yes to confirm if you are sure

Click yes to confirm if you are sure
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New Outlook:

If you're using the new Outlook, there are a couple of ways to report Phish attempts.

In the list of emails, right click the one you want to report as phish. Go down to "Report." Click Report phishing and that's it!

New Outlook:
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The second way to report phishing from the new Outlook is to click on the email, on the right side of the email, in the preview, click the 3 dots at the top right corner. Scroll down and click on Phish Alert V2 and it'll thank you for reporting and delete the email.

The second way to report phishing from the new Outlook is to click on the email, on the right side of the email, in the preview, click the 3 dots at the top right corner. Scroll down and click on Phish Alert V2 and it'll thank you for reporting and delete the email.
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