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Reza_Ameri-Archived's avatar
Reza_Ameri-Archived
Bronze Contributor
Mar 31, 2017

Don't Delete! Mark it as Junk instead

One common mistake among most users and even IT administrators is they are deleting Spam and Malicious messages from their Inbox (those messages that bypass Anti-Spam). Deleting message just delete it and won't help anyone else. But you should mark it as Junk instead.

 

Doing so , not only place the message into spam folder but it also notify the Anti-Spam engine that there was a message which classified incorrectly and if the same message send to other people, it will be blocked.

 

 

  • James Hainaut's avatar
    James Hainaut
    Copper Contributor

    I forward the message 'as an attachment' to junk@office365.microsoft.com and/or phish@office365.microsoft.com. The email item will be sent to the Microsoft mail security team for further analysis and investigation to help to improve the effectiveness of our email filtering technologies.

     

    Here's How:                      

    Then mark as junk and delete the message

    • Reza_Ameri-Archived's avatar
      Reza_Ameri-Archived
      Bronze Contributor

      Thank you for sharing this.

       

      It is also a wise stratgey, mark as Junk also have the similar mechanism and it is easier for most users. Your method is also a good way especially if you see spam in another email provider (Gmail, Yahoo, Company mail,etc.) and you want to share it with Microsoft.

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