I would like to forward an e-mail w/o downloading pictures

[tcgraham]

When I checked my e-mail this morning, I found a phishing message from
someone claiming to be from "Paypal." Obviously a fake, I wanted to forward
it to (e-mail address removed) to report it, and was told that I would have to
download the pictures and possibly let the sender know who I am. This needs
to be fixed as I would like to report such attempts w/o letting every spammer
in the world know my e-mail address.

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[Bob I]

Pretty hard to forward something unless you have a copy of it to
forward. We will have to chalk this one up to not understanding the
underlying technology.

 

[Phillip Windell]

When I checked my e-mail this morning, I found a phishing message from
someone claiming to be from "Paypal." Obviously a fake, I wanted to forward
it to (e-mail address removed) to report it, and was told that I would have to
download the pictures and possibly let the sender know who I am. This needs
to be fixed as I would like to report such attempts w/o letting every spammer
in the world know my e-mail address.

You can't forward what you don't have. The images in the message are not
really in the message,...they are stored on a web server monitored by the
spammer. When you open the message it "links" the the image on the web
server to load the image (same way a web page works) and the web server
holding the image logs the connection. There is nothing you can do about it
(other than not open the message) and Microsoft doesn't have anything to do
with it.

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Phillip Windell [MCP, MVP, CCNA]
www.wandtv.com
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[Nehmo]

- tcgraham -

When I checked my e-mail this morning, I found a phishing message from
someone claiming to be from "Paypal." Obviously a fake, I wanted to forward
it to (e-mail address removed) to report it, and was told that I would have to
download the pictures and possibly let the sender know who I am. This needs
to be fixed as I would like to report such attempts w/o letting every spammer
in the world know my e-mail address.

- Nehmo -
Who told you that, and what version of Outlook are you using? With the
message in the preview pane, what happens when you click Forward?

Maybe I don't understand what's happening. Is the main content of the
message in an image of text rather than text itself?

But yes, if you download an image, the server that has the image will
know where, the ip address, and when it went.

But don't worry much about reporting to PayPal. Thousands of others,
getting the same message, will do it.