SelectJunkin the Outlook toolbar and choosePhishingin the drop-down menu.

SelectReportto send Microsoft a phishing email notice.

The email will be moved to yourJunk Emailfolder.

A potential phishing email is highlighted in Outlook.com inbox

Marking a message as phishing doesn’t prevent additional emails from that sender.

To do that, add the email to yourOutlook blocked senders list.

Why Report Phishing in Outlook?

Selecting Phishing from the Junk email menu in Outlook.com

When you see one of these threats, don’t click anything in the email.

You canenable phishing protection in Outlook 2019and other desktop versions to automatically catch scam emails.

It’s also possible toreport emails as spam in Outlook.

Confirmation of reporting a phishing email

Some phishing attempts are amateurish and filled with broken grammar and misspellings, so they are easy to spot.

Common sense safety steps include:

Be particularly suspicious of emails with subject lines and content that include: