Where To Report Phishing Emails And Sites
If you are wanting to report phishing there are a number of things a person is able to do. In this article we will be taking a look at some of the different ways in which a person can report a site which they consider to be a phishing one.
In the USA today there is a government site called US-CERT which is collecting the various phishing emails and instant messages that people are receiving along with website locations. Once they receive details of any such phishing scams they are placed on a list on the site and this will then help others to avoid being scammed themselves in the future.
In order to report any email, instant message or website that a person considers to be a possible phishing scam they open up an email message addressed to phishing-report@us-cert.gov and attach to it the details that they have copied from the email, instant message or website address.
Also many of the well known web browsers such as Yahoo, MSN and Mozilla Firefox now provide a service to their customers where they can now notify them of any sites that they consider to be suspicious. Today there is even the Anti Phishing Working Group or APWG which has been set up by various companies and law enforcement agencies which is working on eliminating all kinds of fraud and identity theft which occur through phishing. Although it is a volunteer organization it has begun to build an extensive data base of all phishing emails, instant messages and websites. The best way to report phishing emails of websites to this particular group is by sending them an email at reportphishing@antiphishing.org. Once you have opened up a new email message then all you need to do is drag and drop the email in question from your inbox into this mail message if you are using Outlook. However if you are using Netscape then the offending email will need to be dropped into the attachment area of your message that you are sending to APWG. It is important that you do not use forward if you want to assure that they receive this message. By using the forwarding button to make APWG aware of the phishing email you have received will often result in some information being lost and it also takes them a lot longer to process. However the only time a person will be able to use the forward method is when they have to interface the web with their Outlook.
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