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Report phishing

Gers
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Just lately my reports to report@phishing@gov.uk have all bounced back with an error message - 

Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

report@phishing.gov.uk (report@phishing.gov.uk)
Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it.

Why would this happen?  It's always been good until recently.  Thanks

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  • MyRealNameToo
    MyRealNameToo Posts: 1,955 Forumite
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    presumably thats just a miskey in the text given you have two @ signs but in the delivery failure the second is a . as you'd expect. 

    Probably a temporary glitch, its still the official email to forward them to
  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 13,329 Forumite
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    presumably thats just a miskey in the text given you have two @ signs but in the delivery failure the second is a . as you'd expect. 

    Probably a temporary glitch, its still the official email to forward them to
    Fab - that's really helpful, I'll check it out.  Many thanks!  

  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 13,329 Forumite
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    I mistyped the address in my first post! Here's a screen shot of an earlier email and my latest to the phishing line, both of which have been rejected.

    Delivery has failed to these recipients or groups:

    report@phishing.gov.uk (report@phishing.gov.uk)
    Your message wasn't delivered because the recipient's email provider rejected it.


    Does anyone have any idea about the problem?  




  • PHK
    PHK Posts: 2,424 Forumite
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    One thing that can cause the rejection message is if your email is barred for spam. 

    Who is your email provider?
  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 13,329 Forumite
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    PHK said:


    One thing that can cause the rejection message is if your email is barred for spam. 

    Who is your email provider?
    BT - though these emails are coming into my outlook email account. I've been sending reports for ages and don't normally experience these rejections.

  • Gers
    Gers Posts: 13,329 Forumite
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    Seems to be emails from outlook which are the problem. Just now I forwarded one from my BT email which went through fine. 
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