Rename it and give it an icon of your choice. Next, select the ‘report junk’ button on the left side, and add it to the ‘report phish’ group you just created by clicking the ‘add>’ button. Click the ‘New Group’ button and rename it to be something useful “report junk” or “report phish”.Ĥ. On the right side, under “Customize the Ribbon” select Main Tabs, and expand the Home (Mail) tab.

Right click a blank space in the ribbon and choose ‘Customize Ribbon’.

Open Outlook and verify you now see the junk options in the ribbon.

Install the Microsoft Junk Email reporter add-in for Outlook 2010 or 2013.

It also does much more that forwards the email, it sends the junk mail as an attachement in an email, preserving the message headers that will be needed for forensics. Below are the steps you can use to reproduce a ‘report phish’ button in Outlook that automatically sends your security or IT department a full copy of the phishing emails. If you are good at scripting or have some workstation management tools this should be no problem to implement across the enterprise. I didn’t want to enlist a developer to create an Outlook add-in button, so I came up with a relatively easy solution. I wanted the same thing for my security program, but we didn’t contract with PhishMe, so I needed another solution. Their solution for end-user reporting is an add-in in Outlook, providing a simple way for the end-user to click a button to report messages. The service also provides an easy way for end-users to report the messages to their IT department and use for statistical tracking. PhishMe offers a great solution for the enterprise with its anti-phishing training and phishing simulations.

NOTE: This article has been updated with an additional easier option for building an enterprise-wide phishing button.

Add a ‘report phishing’ button in Outlook forward spam and phishing emails to your internal security team the right way!

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