Many of the larger companies, who find themselves the frequent targets of various spam attacks, publish email addresses where you can forward the spam. You may not be the first to report a particular kind of attack--but someone is going to be the first.
I have received thanks several times over the years for my forwards. I keep my list in a file called phisheries.txt. Here's the current content of that file: phishing-rep...@us-cert.gov phish...@irs.gov s...@uce.gov sp...@paypal.com reportph...@wellsfargo.com ab...@icloud.com ab...@fedex.com stop-spoof...@amazon.com hth Janina Simon Fogarty writes: > Hi Kawal, > > I'd contact apple directly by phone and see what they say > > However in most cases these spammers can't be stopped by the actual companys > they say they are, > Your best bet is to try and block them and if you do receive any, then just > delete. > > Remember the spam may look to be from a legitimate > Address but that is just a simple change of a return address > Fighting spammers is a difficult situation and the best thing you can do is > to hit delete. > > Good luck. > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Kawal Gucukoglu' via MacVisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Sent: Tuesday, 23 April 2019 8:28 AM > To: Macvisionaries <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> > Subject: Abusive email from spammers who tried to hijack your account > > Hello. > > Is there an email address where you can send email which spammers sent to you > about your Apple account please? Just that I need to report some to Apple so > that they can stop the spam from trying to get peoples Apple ID. Thanks very > much > > Kawal. > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: mk...@ucla.edu and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/macvisionaries@googlegroups.com/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
