How to report suspicious phishing and scam emails

If you think you’ve received a suspicious (scam/phishing) email, the National Cyber Security Centre wants you to report it so they can act on it and prevent others from being affected.

Even if you are not sure about the email you have received, they are asking you to forward it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) on the following email address: report@phishing.gov.uk 

Here’s what the NCSC says will happen next:

The NCSC will analyse the suspect email and any websites it links to. We’ll use any additional information you’ve provided to look for and monitor suspicious activity.

If we discover activity that we believe is malicious, we may:

• seek to block the address the email came from, so it can no longer send emails
• work with hosting companies to remove links to malicious websites
• raise awareness of commonly reported suspicious emails and methods used (via partners)

Whilst the NCSC is unable to inform you of the outcome of its review, we can confirm that we do act upon every message received.

Sounds like a good idea although a little frustrating not to see the outcome of their reviews.

 

See the full information on the National Cyber Security Website: Phishing: how to report to the NCSC