Recently, I received (yet another) phishing spam that mimics an official PayPal notification.
Frequently, as requested by PayPal, I have forwarded the phishing email to PayPal.
I must got another one of those obnoxious phishing emails (they really look like they are con PayPal). So, I tried to forward it to PayPal. But it remains stuck in the outbox. Each attempt to send produces an error message that the “send” is being prohibited because of the spam content.
So the email is being delivered to me (even though it has spam content), but I am prohibited from reporting it to PayPal because of the spam content!
This is a new development, since I have been forwarding them to PayPal on the past.
Is there a way for me to forward the phishiing attack to PayPal (as they request)?
Thank you.
DG
I presume the email is being blocked either by Paypal’s SMTP receiving system, or your outgoing SMTP server, rather than k-9 itself.
If it’s Paypal, you may need to find a different Paypal email address, to which to report it, or a web page.
If it’s your outgoing SMTP server, you may need to send it via a different route.
Thank you for your fast and helpful reply.
Since PayPal is aware of these scams, and asks for emails to be forwarded to them, I’m thinking it’s unlikely that they would block them. Must be my ISP, then.
Just strange that out has worked in past when I previously (successfully) forwarded phishing emails to PayPal.
DG
Re-reading your first post, I see that emails are stuck in your Outbox. If Paypal were rejecting the emails, they’d have been sent, but you’d expect to see bounce replies.
Since the emails are stuck in your Outbox, instead, that does point the finger at your outgoing SMTP ISP not accepting them, I agree.
Unless it is k-9 itself, but I’ve never seen that.
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