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  • Teapot55
    Teapot55 Posts: 792 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    I emailed the second one of the email addresses you’ve given above yesterday and I didn’t get any messages about non-delivery. Mind you, I didn’t get a ‘message received’ notification either. 

    would've . . . could've . . . should've . . .


    A.A.A.S. (Associate of the Acronym Abolition Society)

    There's definitely no 'a' in 'definitely'.
  • susansue
    susansue Posts: 28 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 10 Posts
    Thanks for your reply. I am trying to forward a fake Martin Lewis phishing email. I have just tried again and still have the same problem with both email addresses.  The error message is:
     
    (MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com)To:you
    554: Email rejected due to security policies - 

    Does anyone have any ideas?

  • k3lvc
    k3lvc Posts: 4,174 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    susansue said:
    Thanks for your reply. I am trying to forward a fake Martin Lewis phishing email. I have just tried again and still have the same problem with both email addresses.  The error message is:
     
    (MAILER-DAEMON@aol.com)To:you
    554: Email rejected due to security policies - 

    Does anyone have any ideas?

    Yes - nothing to do with this site anyway - just mark as spam/block sender/repeat when the next one comes
  • susansue
    susansue Posts: 28 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 10 Posts
    Ok, I have answered my own question. I was able to send a jpg screen grab of the fake email and send it as an attachment without problems.
    It looks like something in the email was triggering a security alert when I tried to forward it.
    It's a shame it didn't do that to stop it getting to my inbox in the first place.
  • susansue
    susansue Posts: 28 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 10 Posts
    #k3lvc

    Thanks for your reply and suggestions. I was trying to forward this spam/[phishing email as suggested on this site. I have had a few similar ones lately all from different addresses, so blocking doesn't really help.
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