handling_suspicious_email_messages_and_spam
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====== Handling Suspicious Email Messages and Spam ====== | ====== Handling Suspicious Email Messages and Spam ====== | ||
- | The two best ways to reduce the amount of unwanted email in your inbox is to report spam messages and unsubscribe from mailing lists you are not interested in. | + | The two best ways to reduce the amount of unwanted email in your inbox is to report spam messages and unsubscribe from mailing lists you are not interested in. Gmail will try to automatically unsubscribe you from messages you mark as spam. |
- | The open nature of the global email system is a double-edged sword―by nature it allows any person or company to communicate with anyone else. The drawback is that sender' | + | The open nature of the global email system is a double-edged sword. By nature it allows any person or company to communicate with anyone else. The drawback is that senders |
===== Is this email actually from who it says it is? ===== | ===== Is this email actually from who it says it is? ===== | ||
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Emails which attempt to persuade you to do something dangerous often use language which adds urgency so that you are more likely to suspend your suspicion and perform the action anyways. Vague messages which implore you to open some link or attachment are frequently malicious. Examples of dangerous actions are: | Emails which attempt to persuade you to do something dangerous often use language which adds urgency so that you are more likely to suspend your suspicion and perform the action anyways. Vague messages which implore you to open some link or attachment are frequently malicious. Examples of dangerous actions are: | ||
* **Providing usernames or passwords** — A common attack is to provide a link which looks like the login page to your email provider or other service. The attacker saves any password you submit, and uses it to hijack your account. | * **Providing usernames or passwords** — A common attack is to provide a link which looks like the login page to your email provider or other service. The attacker saves any password you submit, and uses it to hijack your account. | ||
+ | * **Granting Application Access** — Some attacks may link directly to an account page which asks for permission to access your account. If you are not expecting to see an account access screen, the safest thing to do is close your browser window/tab. | ||
* **Transferring/ | * **Transferring/ | ||
* **Visiting malicious links** — Malicious links may look like links to trusted websites, or be random webpages on the internet. If you aren't sure if a link is safe, err on the side of caution and do not open it. | * **Visiting malicious links** — Malicious links may look like links to trusted websites, or be random webpages on the internet. If you aren't sure if a link is safe, err on the side of caution and do not open it. | ||
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Naturally, if you never trusted any message or opened //any// attachment, email would not be very useful. Use your best judgement and if you feel a message is unsafe, you may want to report it as a phishing or spam. Reporting spam and phishing emails is good practice, because you will help Gmail reduce the amount of unwanted messages you receive. If a message is probably safe, but you do not want to receive any more message like it you may be able to unsubscribe from marketing messages from that sender. | Naturally, if you never trusted any message or opened //any// attachment, email would not be very useful. Use your best judgement and if you feel a message is unsafe, you may want to report it as a phishing or spam. Reporting spam and phishing emails is good practice, because you will help Gmail reduce the amount of unwanted messages you receive. If a message is probably safe, but you do not want to receive any more message like it you may be able to unsubscribe from marketing messages from that sender. | ||
- | If ever you are not sure if a message is malicious or not, send the message with headers to < | + | If ever you are not sure if a message is malicious or not, [[forward_a_message_with_headers_in_gmail|send the message with headers]] to < |
- | ====== How to send a message with headers in Gmail ====== | + | |
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- | Every email has [[https:// | + | |
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- | - Open the Gmail message. | + | |
- | - Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top right of the message pane. | + | |
- | - Select Show Original. The full headers will appear in a new window. | + | |
- | - Click **Download Original** and save the text file. | + | |
- | - Attach the text file in a new message. | + | |
- | ====== How to report a phishing email in Gmail ====== | + | |
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- | A [[https:// | + | |
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- | - Open the Gmail message. | + | |
- | - Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top right of the message pane. | + | |
- | - Click **Report Phishing** to send a copy of the message to the Gmail Team. | + | |
====== How to report a message as spam in Gmail ====== | ====== How to report a message as spam in Gmail ====== | ||
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===== Unsubscribing from marketing messages ===== | ===== Unsubscribing from marketing messages ===== | ||
- | Often marketing messages will give you the option of unsubscribing from their list. If the " | + | Often marketing messages will give you the option of unsubscribing from their list. If the " |
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+ | It is always safest to mark messages as spam. Especially if: | ||
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+ | * You have never dealt with the company directly. | ||
+ | * You cannot find a way to unsubscribe. | ||
+ | * You unsubscribe from a company' | ||
Read the message and search for an // | Read the message and search for an // | ||
- | * If you cannot find a way to unsubscribe, | + | ====== How to report |
- | * If you unsubscribe from a company' | + | |
+ | A [[https:// | ||
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+ | - Click the down arrow next to Reply, at the top right of the message pane. | ||
+ | - Click **Report Phishing** to send a copy of the message | ||
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