Report Spam or Phishing

If you receive a suspicious message in your email inbox, first forward the message to phishing@dartmouth.edu

Next, Microsoft provides a way to report spam or phishing messages that arrive in your inbox directly to Microsoft. By using this reporting mechanism, Microsoft's system learns how spammers are getting around filters and continually changes to improve filtering so future messages are flagged appropriately.

To report a message as phishing in Gmail:

  1. Open the message.
  2. Above the reading pane, in the upper right corner select the kebab menu ( 3-dot menu) and select “Report Phishing”.

To report a message as phishing in Outlook:

  1. In the message list, select the message or messages you want to report.
  2. Above the reading pane, select Junk > Phishing > Report to report the message sender

 

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