This one made me laugh...
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"Please reply us"? Obvious phish.
This is when I look at the email source and get the IP of the server that last handled the email. Use whois on the IP and forward it as an attachment to the abuse address, if one is listed.
If you send it to Microsoft abuse they won't do anything. They'll just tell you to send it somewhere else. They're horrible.
MarkJFine wrote:"Please reply us"? Obvious phish.
This is when I look at the email source and get the IP of the server that last handled the email. Use whois on the IP and forward it as an attachment to the abuse address, if one is listed.
If you send it to Microsoft abuse they won't do anything. They'll just tell you to send it somewhere else. They're horrible.
I don't know how to look at the IP address from within the Windows Mail app, nor Outlook.com. And, the wacky thing is that, with all other spam emails I can look and see the address it came from, even if it's a spoofed address, but this one not only shows nothing, the option is not there to even look at it (maybe because there's no info), either in Windows Mail or outlook.com. Actually, the first email has the option, but it does nothing when you click on the grey thing.
And, of course...I just got another one. This one was snipped from outlook.com rather than the Windows Mail the first one was snipped from.
An example of another spam email from today (I get about seven or eight a day (used to get dozens)). I redacted not only my email address, but also the nefarious one, as you just know some kid might try the address or something.
Inside the red box is the thing I can normally click on to see where the email came from (or supposedly came from), but as you can see, the "Microsoft" phishing emails do not have that, and it's the first time I've seen that option not be there. They're getting slick. I thought getting spam emails that appeared to come from my own address was slick, but this is even slicker. SMH. As noted above (in an edit), the first email does have the thing in the red box, but when I click on it it does absolutely nothing, as if it's not even there, like the second "Microsoft" one where it really isn't there.
Love the insistence of the "Click here." C'mon, we dare ya. Click, we tell you! <-- say it as Stewie Griffin for more effect.
Not sure about Outlook.com, but in Outlook you should be able to right-click on an email listing, and there's "View Source" so you can see the raw email with all the headers.
It's getting even more comical....
And the link for the "knowledge base article"....it was grand, to say the least. Funniest looking knowledge base article address I've ever seen! :P
