Phishing and suspicious behavior
What is Phishing email?
A phishing email is an email that appears legitimate but is an attempt to get your personal information or steal your money. Spoof Intelligence from Microsoft 365 Advanced Threat Protection and Exchange Online Protection helps prevent phishing messages from reaching your Outlook inbox. Outlook verifies that the sender is who they say they are and marks messages as junk. If the message is suspicious but isn't deemed malicious, the sender will be marked as unverified to notify the receiver that the sender may not be who they appear to be.
Below are some common types of phishing scams:
· Reward type email that has a message like the following, “Click on this link to get your tax refund!”
· A document that appears to come from a friend, bank, or other reputable organization. Ex. “Your document is hosted by an online storage provider, and you need to enter your email address and password to open it.”
· An invoice from an online retailer or supplier for a purchase or order that you did not make. The attachment appears to be a protected or locked document, and you need to enter your email address and password to open it.
Read more at Learn to spot a phishing email.
How to report Phishing email.
In Outlook, report Phishing email by clicking the PhishAlarm (Report Unwanted Email). Outlook has Classic Ribbon and a Simplified Ribbon that contain all the options and commands that is used to accomplish tasks in Outlook. For example, you can click buttons on the ribbon to create a new email, delete emails, open a new meeting request, or assign a category to an item. However, the Classic Ribbon does take up a lot of space on your screen so one may choose to use Simplified Ribbon. The Simplified Ribbon shows your most used commands in a single line. However, with less available space for commands, not all the buttons you're used to seeing will fit on the Simplified Ribbon. Classic Ribbon shows the “Report Unwanted Email” as Simplified Ribbon doesn’t by default.
See both Ribbons below,
Classic Ribbon
Simplified Ribbon
To toggle between Ribbons, click the arrow that is in a downward pointer carrot located on the right side of Outlook. See image below,
If you are using Simplified view and want to access the PhishAlarm (Report Unwanted Email), click on the 3 dots located on the right side of Outlook and choose PhishAlarm “Report Unwanted Email” located at the bottom of the drop-down menu. See below,
In Conclusion,
Phish Alert button gives users a safe way to forward email threats to the security team for analysis and deletes the email from the user's inbox to prevent future exposure. All with just one click!