clicking on email that is "phishing scam" ?

[mk1975]

hi, i keep receiving scam emails,for example from Santander Bank that i have to log in for security reasons.and as i dont have an account with them i know for sure its a scam.
The problem is, i click on that email that is a phishing scam , but after a day i receive the same Santander email again. Microsoft or whoever is checking surely has to make sure i dont receive that mail again, isnt it?? if not, then whats the point for users to click "phishing scam". thanks in advance.

[jno]

does your email account provide any facility to block senders?

[ichkeria]

The email provider ought to be filtering that sort of stuff out for you. You can always block the sender yourself, but the chances are that the originating address keeps changing.
I may be being unfair, but I suspect clicking "phishing scam" is a waste of time.

[VHG]

Googlemail (gmail) makes a very good job of spotting spam and putting it straight in your spam folder.

I dont think any email company would ever NOT send you mail just because they THINK it is spam, after all they may be wrong, though they may warn you (google do).

But I do think it would be nice if the "industry" could get together to spot spam earlier and refuse to distribute it.

>>>Microsoft or whoever is checking

Why do you think Microsoft should be checking email? For most email it probably goes nowhere near anything that Microsoft controls, they are not the only computer company you know.

[mk1975]

VHG, just because i use hotmail, thats why i thought it was to do with Microsoft.i might be wrong of course.
i'll try blocking but im pretty sure i'll receive them again.
thanks for your replies.

[boxtops]

don't open the emails, just forward them straight to that bank's phishing email address so they can investigate. We get loads from different banks, all of them are false and go straight into our spam filter.

[squarebear]

"Microsoft or whoever is checking surely has to make sure i dont receive that mail again, isnt it?? if not, then whats the point for users to click "phishing scam". "

I can guarantee that nobody at Microsoft is checking your inbox for spam. Clicking on the link or forwarding it on to a bank maybe makes you feel better but it has no effect.

[ichkeria]

"Hotmail" - well, say no more :-)
I think you're only hope is to set up a very severe filter that bungs everything except emails from approved recipients into a trash folder.
Or change to a different email provider. As suggested by VHG, Googlemail is excellent at junk filtering: I use Sky, which I believe uses Googlemail in turn, and I receive no junk whatever.

[boxtops]

The banks often send an email saying thanks, we're investigating, sb - don't they do that, then?

[squarebear]

lol I assume you jest boxy?

[boxtops]

Not about the replies, no, they say they want to know about them!

[squarebear]

It's just good customer relations. If they publicly said that there's nothing they can do about them, it wouldn't look too good.

For example: A NatWest email originates from Xi-Duang province in China. The next one comes from Moscow. What steps can they take to stop them? Write to the originator and ask them to stop please?

[boxtops]

Oh well..... :-)

[heathfield]

''I dont think any email company would ever NOT send you mail just because they THINK it is spam''. AOL ended up red-faced some years ago when, based on the quantity issued, they thought that multiple emails from Harvard University must be spam, and blocked them. The emails were actually informing students of their exam results!