Clearly he’s trying to trick you into pressing the “Report Phishing” button, which must be some sort of a trap. I’d check the attached document for further clues, especially since he’s telling me not to. Must be something interesting there
in the Deleted Items folder. “Delete” just moves the email there. At my company anything older than a month in Deleted Items gets actually deleted. But more importantly if you just delete it, maybe nobody knows it’s’ there. If you report it the outlook team can delete it from the servers.
An actual email sent by my company. (not representative of their usual)
Yeah if anyone falls for this lock them out of their computer immediately.
Clearly he’s trying to trick you into pressing the “Report Phishing” button, which must be some sort of a trap. I’d check the attached document for further clues, especially since he’s telling me not to. Must be something interesting there
That’s pretty cool. Gets the point across - and the reason and results of why it matters to report instead of ignore. Kudos to your team.
…if you delete it, it’ll sit in your inbox? I…what?
in the Deleted Items folder. “Delete” just moves the email there. At my company anything older than a month in Deleted Items gets actually deleted. But more importantly if you just delete it, maybe nobody knows it’s’ there. If you report it the outlook team can delete it from the servers.
I suppose it means to say that it gets moved to trash and sits there.