How to report junk or phishing emails

Many scammers have been using the spread of COVID-19 to try and take advantage of people across Australia. There’s been an increase in the number of scam emails being received, many of which will specifically mention COVID-19. Generally, these emails with either be

• Junk emails, which are usually some form of unwanted advertisement for a product or service

• Phishing emails, which are usually pretending to be a legitimate party (e.g. your bank or telephone company) and are trying to steal your personal/confidential information

One of the things you can do to help stop these emails, is report them as junk or phishing through Outlook. This gives Microsoft more information that it can use as it tries to filter out the good emails, from the bad.

Instructions

1. Select the email your want to report

2. Under the home tab at the top of the page, press the “Report Message” button

3. Select what type of email it is, i.e. Junk or Phishing
   
   

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4. You’ll then be asked if you want to Report the email. Click the blue “Report” button.

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