topic Reporting Scam Emails in Email

Reporting Scam Emails

bodgem — Tue, 03 May 2022 09:32:44 GMT

Over the past 6 months or so the number of scam/spam emails getting through to one of my email addresses has rocketed. They are nearly all caught but as there have been around 50 asking me to renew my (non-existent) McAfee subscription I thought I'd report it following the advice here: https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report-phishing.

The instructions say forward on the spam email to report@phishing.gov.uk however the (possibly amusing) result is:

report@phishing.gov.uk
Remote Server returned '550 5.7.520 Message blocked because it contains content identified as spam. AS(4810)'

Is this a result of 'military intelligence' being displayed by the police/government or something stopping it along the way?

e.g. a plusnet server. If so, are plusnet doing their bit to stop the source rather than just the symptoms?

Grumpy old git

Re: Reporting Scam Emails

Gel — Tue, 03 May 2022 10:28:08 GMT

In my e mail programme (Outlook 2019), right clicking on rogue message produces the options shown.

See if yours has something similar.

Re: Reporting Scam Emails

Deafman196823 — Tue, 03 May 2022 10:39:59 GMT

I always use Gmail as they filter all known spam e-mails and I get around 20 a day but I left it in the spam folder and I regularly empty the Spam bin weekly. You should give this a shot so only known e-mails that you are familiar with will stay in the inbox and not the spam folder.

Re: Reporting Scam Emails

bodgem — Sun, 08 May 2022 06:12:30 GMT

ATQ