There are things you can do to stay safe online, but even if you have the best security software and latest and greatest hardware, social engineering means phishing can still be a credible threat. Phishing is far from the most dangerous or innocuous threat to an internet user, but it often feels more villainous than other forms of cybercrime. There’s something unsettling about an attacker using something as ordinary as an email to take over your life and really ruin your day.
Fortunately, phishing is often quite easy to identify and avoid, but what do you do after you have successfully identified an attack? Reporting phishing is a good start, although, for your report to be effective, you need to make sure you report it to the correct place. Let’s have a look at where and how to report phishing attacks so that you can help protect your fellow netizens.
How to report phishing emails to your email provider
Reporting phishing emails can take a number of forms, depending on a few factors. Strictly speaking, you should report phishing emails to law enforcement as well as the company being impersonated, but it also helps to report it to your email providers so that they can use the data to filter for those emails automatically.
Often, reporting phishing emails to your email provider is the easiest of the three options, so let’s start there and take a look at how to report phishing emails to Gmail and Outlook.
