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Re: Fake email

From	"s\|b" <me@privacy.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject	Re: Fake email
Date	2026-05-15 20:14 +0200
Organization	XXII
Message-ID	<n6p64nFs1g2U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On Fri, 15 May 2026 17:27:22 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:

> I assumed it was a scam, and checked with the NT. They replied that he 
> no longer worked for them. It's a waste of time, but I forwarded the 
> correspondence to report@phishing.gov.uk. Their reply noted :
> "As of December 2025, the number of reports stands at more than 49.8M. 
> This has resulted in 240k scams removed across 426k URLs."

In Belgium we can mail suspicious mails (phishing) to
verdacht@safeonweb.be 

<https://safeonweb.be/en/report-incident>

They'll try and block the sender and domain which is an ungrateful task,
true, but there's a more important benefit from this. When a lot of
people are reporting the same mail safeonweb.be will issue warnings
about this, so people will know what the recent scams are.

For instance, this month the government released our tax files and it
seems there are already phishing mails out there using taxes in their
scam.

It's easy to say there's no point in what they're doing, but imo it's
better than doing nothing at all.

-- 
s|b

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