outlook should let me forward spam without downloading images.

[chue]

suggestion for outlook -
i get quite a few phishing emails that contain links to images. outlook
will not allow me to forward the emails without first downloading the images.
many institutions (ebay, amazon, etc) allow people to send phishing emails
to them so that they can investigate the phishers. outlook's current
behaviour means that i can't do this without letting the phishers know that
my email address is legitimate.

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[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Outlook 2007 will have that ability. BTW, forwarding phishing mail is
seldom effective since any large web site will probably have thousands of
people hit by the same email.

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After furious head scratching, chue asked:

| suggestion for outlook -
| i get quite a few phishing emails that contain links to images.
| outlook will not allow me to forward the emails without first
| downloading the images. many institutions (ebay, amazon, etc) allow
| people to send phishing emails to them so that they can investigate
| the phishers. outlook's current behaviour means that i can't do this
| without letting the phishers know that my email address is legitimate.
|
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| suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click
| the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the
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|
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[chue]

thanks for the answer. just so i understand your reasoning in the second
sentence, why would it be ineffective?

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Because Web Sites are constantly receiving these types of messages
(sendto:[email protected]) they are overloaded, you get an automated response
(if lucky) and the ticket sits there since the problem has probably already
been resolved. Besides, how do you know that the webmaster at
(e-mail address removed) is not the actual spammer looking to confirm addresses?

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
reading.

After furious head scratching, chue asked:

| thanks for the answer. just so i understand your reasoning in the
| second sentence, why would it be ineffective?
|
| "Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]" wrote:
|
|| Outlook 2007 will have that ability. BTW, forwarding phishing mail
|| is seldom effective since any large web site will probably have
|| thousands of people hit by the same email.
||
|| --Â
|| Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]
||
|| Post all replies to the group to keep the discussion intact. All
|| unsolicited mail sent to my personal account will be deleted without
|| reading.
||
|| After furious head scratching, chue asked:
||
||| suggestion for outlook -
||| i get quite a few phishing emails that contain links to images.
||| outlook will not allow me to forward the emails without first
||| downloading the images. many institutions (ebay, amazon, etc) allow
||| people to send phishing emails to them so that they can investigate
||| the phishers. outlook's current behaviour means that i can't do
||| this without letting the phishers know that my email address is
||| legitimate.
|||
||| ----------------
||| This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to
||| the suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion,
||| click the "I Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see
||| the button, follow this link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft
||| Web-based Newsreader and then click "I Agree" in the message pane.
|||
|||
||
http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...e1c46b257&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general