Comments on: Helpful Tip: How to Report a Phishing Email

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:58:59 +0000

I keep getting phishing emails from what appears to be Bank of America. I have been opening them, right click, copy the source and routing, then forwarding that info to BOA @ abuse@bankofamerica.com. The phishers get angry becuase large corporations shut them down immediately. Within the last month I received another, and when I opened it to obtain the source and routing, was immediately infected with a very nasty Trojan. The forwarding to abuse@(name of insitution).com works for most legit companies and they are happy to get the info. Some get by my inbox Filter in Hotmail, but I simply move them to junk without opening them and the system learns. From now on I just delete them but that is a PITA. I saw on another forum how to report phishing emails in Hotmail Live. Doesn’t seem to work for me Running Explorer 7, even though it has Hotmail Live redirect. BTW: I am running Verizon Security Suite full version real time protection, and the Trojan still got through.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 21 May 2008 14:46:30 +0000

Forward phishing to phishing-report@us-cert.gov

By: dan

dan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:38:04 +0000

they want you to print full headers so they can track it down.but if it doesn’t initiate from their site they just say thanks but it’s not their client so they can’t take action. if i have yahoo & hotmail shows up in the headers how do i contact hotmail.
you’d think any server would want to stop the phishers.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:08:34 +0000

Change wrote:

Thanks for the tips, never knew those options were available. Will certainly use that from now on

No problem! If we only helped a handful of people it would be worth it. Interestingly enough the number of phishing emails I had seen hit my Inbox(es) in Gmail has been drastically reduced since writing this article.

By: Change

Change — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:30:55 +0000

Thanks for the tips, never knew those options were available. Will certainly use that from now on

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:32:03 +0000

netster007x wrote:

Today I checked my spam folder and 15 of the 25 messages were false positives. That’s a horrible ratio! All 15 were w/in the last month, and all but one were auto messages (like mail delivery failed and E-buy confirmations — that $0.72 1GB flash drive I’m waiting on).

Wow, that is pretty terrible. I'm assuming that Yahoo! Mail learns from messages you tell it aren't spam?

tafkajp wrote:

I have a question, how do I know the difference between spam and phishing if I never open the email? taf

You'll have to open the message in order to find out. There isn't really a way around that.

By: tafkajp

tafkajp — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 23:49:53 +0000

I have a question, how do I know the difference between spam and phishing if I never open the email?

taf

By: netster007x

netster007x — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:55:43 +0000

I’ve never heard of a difference between the two. I just consider phishing a form of spam. When I see phishing messages in my spam folder, I think my mail service is doing a good job. I use Y!Mail and when I get phishing messages, I just click the spam button. I don’t think Y!Mail has any advanced warning message for phishing, so I don’t know what taking the extra effort to forward the message to that address would accomplish. I don’t think distinct phishing reporting is necessary. I don’t give out personal info in Emails, especially those in the spam folder, unless I know they’re legitimate.

[antispam.yahoo.com]

Somewhat on topic. Today I checked my spam folder and 15 of the 25 messages were false positives. That’s a horrible ratio! All 15 were w/in the last month, and all but one were auto messages (like mail delivery failed and E-buy confirmations — that $0.72 1GB flash drive I’m waiting on).