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1. Click the Phish Alert Button

On Outlook Desktop

The Phish Alert Button is displayed in the ribbon in Outlook Desktop.

If the Phish Alert Button is not showing on the ribbon, click on All Apps and click on the Phish Alert Button from the pop-up list.

Clicking the button will open a task pane to start the submission process.

On Outlook Web and on New Outlook

The icon for the Phish Alert Button will appear in the actions menu on each email message.

If the Phish Alert Button is not in the actions menu, click on the Apps icon in the actions menu of the email message and select it from the dropdown list.

On Android

Tap the three dots on the right above the body of the email. This will open a pull-up panel, where the icon for the Phish Alert Button will be at the bottom.

2. Confirm that you want to submit the email as a suspected phishing attempt

Once you click the button, the submission process will begin.

3. You will now be congratulated if the email was from a simulation.

Otherwise, the email is treated as an actual suspected phishing email. A notification will be sent to the email addresses you specified under Forwarded Email Recipients if Forward Suspected Phishing Emails is enabled. This notification will contain a summary of the suspected phishing email. It will also have an EML file attachment containing a reproduction of the original email if Include Suspected Email as EML file attachment is enabled.

Use this end-user guide / email template to let your end users know about the Phish Alert Button, and how they can use it to report suspicious emails in their Web, Desktop or Mobile mailboxes.