What is spam?
Spam is unsolicited junk email sent indiscriminately in bulk, often for commercial purposes. Much of it is sent by botnets, networks of virus-infected computers, complicating the process of tracking down the spammers. According to various estimates, about 80% of all email in the world may be spam.
What is phishing?
Phishing is the practice of defrauding users into giving up their usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, and other personal information. Phishing emails will often try to get you to click on links that take you to fake websites. They often pretend to be from organizations such as a bank, PayPal, Amazon, or even Westcliff University.
Never respond to email asking you to provide personal information. Westcliff University will never ask you for personal information by email.
Learn more about phishing: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/8253?hl=en#zippy=%2Cuse-gmail-to-help-you-identify-phishing-emails
Reporting spam and phishing
With the message open, click on More, the button on the far right next to Reply, and click Report Phishing or Report Spam.
Remove phishing flag from message
If an email was incorrectly marked as phishing, please follow the steps below:
