If you receive an e-mail that is raising red flags as a potential phishing e-mail it’s critical that you do not click on anything within the email. Instead, use the “Report Message” feature within Outlook. Reporting a phishing email using the “Report Message” tool does multiple things:
- Removes the email from your inbox
- Sends the message back to Microsoft to help improve their automated phishing detection systems
- Protects MDVA – if you’ve reported the message and Microsoft notices that other people in your organization have received the same message, they will pull that email from everyone’s inbox
You can find the “Report Message” button under the “Protection” section on your “Home” ribbon while selecting a message.
Select “Phishing” from the dropdown menu. The message should then disappear.