topic Reporting Spam & Phishing emails in Email

Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:46:39 GMT

I am referring to an article on this subject at,

https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Phishing-emails-amp-everything-you-need-to-know/ta-p/3002256

and to the the link within that, ' recent examples of phishing emails we've stopped'.

Those examples shown are not very good examples and maybe disingenuous.

These are the senders shown of the 10 emails shown:

Phishing email 1 From: Help Centre

Phishing email 2 From: New Email

Phishing email 3 From: TalkTalk

Phishing email 4 From: Notify My TalkTalk

Phishing email 5 From: TalkTalk.co.uk

Phishing email 6 From: Mail Settings

Phishing email 7 From: Talk Talk

Phishing email 8 From: RENEWSERVER VIEW

Phishing email 9 From: Service Desk

Phishing email 10: From: TalkTalk

I have never received an email from such a sender without the additional part identifying the sender's true email address between '<' and '>' brackets.

So were the email addresses of the senders omitted by the article's TalkTalk author, or do such emails truly exist?

Bill

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 14:45:05 GMT

All these example phishing emails have been opened.

They all come with the 'friendly name' of the sender at the 'From:' field, but without being followed by the email address of the sender, between '<' and '>'.

Just rephrasing it a bit.

Bill

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Ady-TalkTalk — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 14:55:03 GMT

Hi Bill, I suspect this is intended to be a guide not necessarily comprehensive list.

Ady

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:51:15 GMT

@Ady-TalkTalk

This is a copy of the first 2 phishing email examples from the list of 10.

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In the 'From:' field, which is the most important field in regard to phishing, there is what is called a 'friendly name' only, but there is zero email address, to know where it came from. So this is beyond phishing, as there is no email address, and these 10 emails can and must immediately be be put in the bin. So what is all the fuss about? Why present these as top examples of phishing emails?

If there were really email addresses on these example emails, but were deleted by the article writer, then that is bad, because I want to know what form those sender's email addresses took.

So, would there have been an email address in each of these emails (and was then deleted by the article writer), or are these the original copies of the 10 emails?

EDIT: Alternatively, is it possible to display an email, without the email containing the sender's email address?

Bill

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Ady-TalkTalk — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:33:57 GMT

Thanks Billx, the email team already examples of all the current Phishing mails.

Ady

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:25:12 GMT

Thanks @Ady-TalkTalk

But did you mean "the email team already HAS examples of all the current Phishing mails."

If so, that's well and good.

What I meant is that I don't have sufficiently enough examples of Phishing mails.

Therefore, I looked at https://community.talktalk.co.uk/t5/Articles/Phishing-emails-amp-everything-you-need-to-know/ta-p/3002256

As I stated above:

"All these example phishing emails have been opened.

They all come with the 'friendly name' of the sender at the 'From:' field, but without being followed by the email address of the sender, between the '<' and the '>'."

Would all these 10 example phishing emails have been photoshopped, and the real email addresses of the senders REMOVED by the article writer? Or are these 10 example phishing emails, the original screenshots of the 10 emails, none of them displaying an email address?

Please, @Ady-TalkTalk, give me a true answer.

Bill

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

ferguson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:30:40 GMT

They are EXAMPLES, what is it about that word that you don't understand?

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:52:03 GMT

They look like they are examples which have been photoshopped, before they were included in the article.

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

ferguson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 20:58:09 GMT

They are pictures in an online article, honestly, what is your point? Do you think full HTML breakdown details of the entire content would make it easier for people to heed the warning?

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Billx — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:38:40 GMT

No, I never mentioned HTML. What is this talk about HTML?

I already said they are pictures, but I also said they look like photoshopped pictures.

I would like to see the original pictures.

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

ferguson — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 22:56:55 GMT

@Billx wrote:

I have never received an email from such a sender without the additional part identifying the sender's true email address between '<' and '>' brackets.

HTML, surely? And if you would like to see "the original pictures" I suggest you apply for a job with the TalkTalk teams responsible for web pages and security.

This is beyond frivolous now, please have a read again of the community guidelines before posting again. Topic locked.

Re: Reporting Spam & Phishing emails

Ady-TalkTalk — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:58:48 GMT

Hi Bill, I'm not sure of your real motive in trying to obtain mails that are potentially harmful when all are trying to avoid them. There is no chance of us providing the full mail and address to any outside the business as this would give them the tools to spam and scam our customers. You're asking for information we won't provide. Please desist. If you have a problem and need help we're all here to help.

Ady