report spam and phishing emails to the government

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You can report Spam and Phishing emails to the goverment. It will not directly help you but you can do your part to hopefully stop the criminals who are sending them.

Report spam to government

Forward unwanted or deceptive messages to:
  • the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov. Be sure to include the complete spam email.
  • your email provider. At the top of the message, state that you’re complaining about being spammed. Some email services have buttons that allow you to mark messages as junk mail or report them spam.
  • the sender’s email provider, if you can tell who it is. Most web mail providers and ISPs want to cut off spammers who abuse their system. Again, make sure to include the entire spam email and say that you’re complaining about spam.

If you try to unsubscribe from an email list and your request is not honored, file a complaint with the FTC.

Report phishing

Create a new email and drag the phishing email into it
OR
Create a new email and copy the header of the phishing email into it
Then email it to phishing-report@us-cert.gov

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