Easily Report Phishing Email Scam To Microsoft
Do you know, how to report fraudulent or spammy email messages to Microsoft? If the answer is NO then this article is for you.
What is Phishing Email Scam?
Cyber criminals always use Phishing email messages to trap the consumers in to their network. These email messages are designed in a way to steal money or personal information from users. These hackers also using the modern social engineering sources to trap the users under false pretense. Once the user read the email and clicks on the external links means hackers done their job to convince the users to become a new victim.
How to recognize these scams/Phishing
It is very difficult to recognize the scam/Phishing but if you spend some time a normal user can easily do it. Some of the telltale signs. Scams can contain the following:
Alarmist messages and threats of account closures such as banking, email etc.
Promises of money for little or no effort at all.
Deals that sound too good to be true and convincing.
Requests to donate to a charitable organization after a disaster that has been in the news.
Bad grammar and misspellings on the email.
Report Phishing Email Scam to Microsoft
Report any suspicious phishing activity to Microsoft via;
In order to report Phishing scam email to outlook, click the check box next to the message in your Outlook inbox. Now click the arrow next to Junk and then point to Phishing scam. you can also go through the official Microsoft security web-page here.
If you are on internet explorer and redirected to a fake website of hacker, just do as follows.
Just click the gear icon and then point to Safety. Now click Report Unsafe Website and use the web page that is displayed to report the website.
If you are on Microsoft Office outlook 2010 and 2013, Just Right-click the suspicious message, point to Junk, and then click Report Junk. Done! You done a great job by reporting these suspicious activities.
You can also download the Microsoft junk email reporting add-in for Microsoft office from the official link here.
