Phishing

[douglas9401]

I tried this in Chatterbank a few hours ago with no success so I'll give it a go here now:

Does anybody have an absolute answer to the question: When I mark an email as a phishing scam on Hotmail does it get referred to Microsoft for action or just deleted like all the other dross?
Thanks for your time.

[Graham-W]

Don't know about your case, but if I forward them to Barclays or Nat-West or whoever, they just bounce, even when sending to what appears to be their genuine address.

[seadogg]

Maybe not many on here use Hotmail, hence the lack of answers, but I stand to be corrected.

[douglas9401]

They never come back Graham. Mrs 9401 gets a load of rubbish from 'inland revenue' and forwards it to their fraud address with no problem.
It's not worrying me from a security point of view, more just curious.

You may be right seadogg but I find it straightforward and easy to use. I've been there for years.

[EDDIE51]

I use Hotmail and I think it does get reported. I get very little 'spam' Hotmail filters send it all straight to 'Junk' where it gets auto deleted after 5 days.

[douglas9401]

I'd certainly agree with you about the amout of rubbish coming in compared toother serviced, EDDIE.

[Dodger666]

Graham, most banks use a dedicated phishing email address to forward suspect email to.

Barclays is [email protected] and Nat West's is [email protected]

Are these the email addresses you use? Phishing emails I send to my bank never bounce back to me.

[boxtops]

Mine never come back to me - I have a list of phishing addresses as I get them a lot - and several banks and PayPal always respond (even if it's only with an auto-reply saying thanks). I don't think email providers actually do anything. My junk box has several in it every day, if one's in my inbox and I mark it spam, it just moves to the junk box so I can delete it.