*#*# spam mail

JJ_Egan

Hotmail is / was a noted spam conduit .

PS some of the solutions may be from 70 year old grandads .

Neil_Jones

JJ_Egan said:

Hotmail is / was a noted spam conduit .

PS some of the solutions may be from 70 year old grandads .

Since 2013 I think it was hotmail.com/co.uk/.<whatever> are no longer available.so accounts that aren't used will expire, so in theory the <random string of characters> @ hotmail dot com or whatever may cease to be a valid spam attempt.  Of course all that'll do is shift the same problem to the new outlook.com addresses.

Spam is the bane of email unfortunately, not a lot you can do about it.  You can filter it out to an extent, but it usually tends to come in waves. Large waves of spam often means some server somewhere has been compromised.and and when it drops off a few days later said server has been patched.

Red_Army

If you have received a suspicious email which you’re not quite sure about, forward it to the Suspicious Email Reporting Service (SERS) at report@phishing.gov.uk. This service is operated by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The message might be from a company you don’t normally receive communications from, or someone you do not know. You may just have a hunch. If you are suspicious, you should report it.

Your report of a phishing email will help them to act quickly, protecting many more people from being affected.

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

If they discover activity that they believe is malicious, they 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, they can confirm that they do act upon every message received. As of 31/05/21 the number of reports received stand at more than 6,100,000 with the removal of 45,000 scams and 90,000 URLs.

Suspicious Texts (Smishing)

General - You can report spam texts directly to your mobile phone provider. All operators now use 7726 as the short code to report spam texts, which is free of charge. All of the UK’s mobile operators work together to deploy a tool which collates all the information from the 7726 short code in real time.

HMRC - Forward suspicious HMRC text messages to 60599. Text messages will be charged at your network rate.