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How do I report spam email?

If you receive an email that you are at all suspicious about, please do not click any links or open any attachments. Instead, forward it to us following these instructions to include the full headers of the message. This helps track down the source of the email to determine its validity, and provides more detail that can be used to update spam filters to prevent similar messages from being delivered.

You can forward suspicious mail to our sscs@uci.edu address, or directly to OIT at spam@uci.edu.

You can see similar instructions at OIT's website here: https://uci.service-now.com/kb_view_customer.do?sysparm_article=KB0010287

UCI Gmail

  1. Open the suspicious message
  2. Click the three dots next to Reply near the top-right of the message
  3. Select Show original
  4. Copy the entire content and paste into a new message
  5. Enter our email address send it to us

Outlook

  1. Select the suspicious message
  2. In the menu bar click on More just to the right of the Forward button, then select Forward as Attachment
  3. A new email will open with the original email as an attachment
  4. Enter our email address and send it to us

Mac OSX Mail

  1. In the menu bar click ViewMessageLong Headers
  2. Click on the suspicious message to highlight it, and then click on the Forward button
  3. Enter our email address and send it to us

Thunderbird

  1. In the menu bar click ViewHeadersAll
  2. Click on the suspicious message to highlight it, and then click on the Forward button
  3. Enter our email address and send it to us
  4. After forwarding the message with full headers, you can switch back to normal headers by selecting View > Headers > Normal
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