How to Report a Phishing Email

Overview

Although your first instinct may be to ignore or delete suspicious emails, we recommend that you report them to our security team. We will examine the email and, if necessary, advise you of any further steps you may need to take.

Detail

Note: Please do not report spam (junk email) as a phishing scam.

To report a phishing scam, forward the phishing email as an attachment to phish@pitt.edu. 

Attaching an email to a message as an attachment:

• Microsoft Outlook (Desktop client)
  1. Select the suspicious email in Outlook.
  2. Press Control-Alt-F to open a draft email message with the suspicious email as an attachment.
  3. Add phish@pitt.edu in the To: field and send the email.


• Microsoft Outlook Online (Office 365)
  1. Select New and click the icon in the upper right-hand corner of the message to compose it in its own window.
  2. Drag the suspicious email into the body of the new message to make it an attachment.
  3. Add phish@pitt.edu in the To: field and send the email.


• Reporting a phishing scam in Apple Mail
  1. Select the suspicious email in Mail.
  2. Select Message, then Forward as Attachment from the menu bar (or right-click and select Forward as Attachment)
  3. Add phish@pitt.edu in the To: field and send the email.