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NON-PHISHLINE/NON-UWM - Phishing Reporting Procedure

Microsoft often institutes a filter for phishing emails, so simply forwarding it will not properly report the email. Here are the steps to properly report phishing attempt emails:


For more information on junk email and phishing, please see our expanded KnowledgeBase article, Office 365 (Outlook) - Learn about junk email and phishing . The UWM Help Desk asks clients to report phishing attempts and generally suspicious emails they have received to abuse@uwm.edu in tandem with using the Microsoft Junk and Phishing Email feature. 


Outlook Desktop

To report a junk/phishing message in the Outlook desktop app:

  1. Highlight the suspicious email in your inbox and click the “Report Message” icon in the top toolbar:

    Report button on outlook desktop

  2. Select Junk or Phishing:

confirmation screen

After selecting "Phishing" the following screen will appear:

Report as junk button options

Outlook on the web

To report a junk/phishing message in Outlook on the web:


1. Log into Outlook on the web.
Login-screen

2. Select the Report dropdown and a drop down menu will appear. From there, click on Report Junk or Report Phishing.
 
Junk and Phishing Drop Down Menu
 
3. Report the phishing/junk message, as it will help grow the junk filter and block similar emails in the future
 
If you selected Report phishing, the following screen will appear::
phisher
If you selected Report junk, the following screen will appear:
phish

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Keywords:microsoft office 365 web client outlook web app help messages categories filtering junk email phishing spam owa o365 outlook reporting   Doc ID:60734
Owner:Help Desk K.Group:UW-Milwaukee Help Desk
Created:2016-02-12 12:27 CDTUpdated:2023-02-22 17:24 CDT
Sites:UW-Milwaukee Help Desk
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