Vista - Re: email blocked as phishing by MS Mail

Forwarded to Windows Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org

joled@rcn.com wrote:
> Hello,
> We send out email campaigns to our customers that request email from
> us notifying them of specials/sales/... We are a ligitimate company
> and these emails are only sent to customers that request these emails.
> A customer has a Vista system and is using Microsoft Mail to read his
> email messages. He reports that email he gets from us is blocked by
> the mail reader and he receives the following message "Windows Mail
> thinks this email is suspicious and has blocked it" and has the option
> to read the mail anyway.
>
> My questions are
> - why does our email get flagged as phishing email?
> - is there a list that we are on for some reason the lists us as a
> phishers that MS Mail consults before opening an email?
> - if so does anyone know how to contact the keeper ofthe list to
> inquire as to how we got on it and how to get off of it?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> joled

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:41:43 -0400, PA Bear wrote:

> Forwarded to Windows Mail newsgroup via crosspost.

If you're going to do this you should really set follow-ups to the group to
which you intend responses be posted.

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Paul Adare
MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
http://www.identit.ca
"The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
labeled as such."
Ray Shea

Thanks for your opinion.

What if OP doesn't happen to know how to access Windows Mail newsgroup...?

Is the topic of this thread no longer pertinent for the Security newsgroup?
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~PA Bear

Paul Adare wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:41:43 -0400, PA Bear wrote:
>
>> Forwarded to Windows Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
>
> If you're going to do this you should really set follow-ups to the group
> to
> which you intend responses be posted.

On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 16:08:53 -0400, PA Bear wrote:

> Thanks for your opinion.
>
> What if OP doesn't happen to know how to access Windows Mail newsgroup...?

Umm, then tell them how to do so.

>
> Is the topic of this thread no longer pertinent for the Security newsgroup?

That wasn't the point.


--
Paul Adare
MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine
http://www.identit.ca
"The English language, complete with irony, satire, and sarcasm, has
survived for centuries without smileys. Only the new crop of modern
computer geeks finds it impossible to detect a joke that is not clearly
labeled as such."
Ray Shea

"Paul Adare" <pkadare@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1fbs35bad9egi.1naowk8d2t8xa$.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 15:41:43 -0400, PA Bear wrote:
>
>> Forwarded to Windows Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
>
> If you're going to do this you should really set follow-ups to the group
> to
> which you intend responses be posted.
>
> --
> Paul Adare
> MVP - Windows - Virtual Machine


I, too, disagree. Especially if, as in this case, the OP did not use
msnews.microsoft.com

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Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM
http://www.fjsmjs.com
Answer in newsgroup. Don't expect an answer to email.

regardless of where it came from, here is what to do:

Q. If I am a Web site owner, how do I correct a warning or a block on my legitimate site?
A. You can immediately submit a request for a correction. Microsoft Phishing Filter has a built-in, Web-based feedback system in place to help customers and Web site owners report any potential false warnings or blocks as quickly as possible. In Windows Internet Explorer 7 or Windows Live Toolbar, from a yellow warning, click Report this site as safe or from a red warning, click Report that this is not a phishing website. This will take you to a feedback page where you can indicate you are a site owner or representative. Follow the instructions and provide the information on this site to submit a site for review.
Once a dispute is submitted, a team of graders inspects the site in question. All disputes should be submitted through the Web site reporting process to ensure the quickest resolution.


From the IE7 phishing philter fphaq

steve

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message news:%23Ltq2kKcHHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Forwarded to Windows Mail newsgroup via crosspost.
> --
> ~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
> MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
> AumHa VSOP & Admin; DTS-L.org
>
> joled@rcn.com wrote:
>> Hello,
>> We send out email campaigns to our customers that request email from
>> us notifying them of specials/sales/... We are a ligitimate company
>> and these emails are only sent to customers that request these emails.
>> A customer has a Vista system and is using Microsoft Mail to read his
>> email messages. He reports that email he gets from us is blocked by
>> the mail reader and he receives the following message "Windows Mail
>> thinks this email is suspicious and has blocked it" and has the option
>> to read the mail anyway.
>>
>> My questions are
>> - why does our email get flagged as phishing email?
>> - is there a list that we are on for some reason the lists us as a
>> phishers that MS Mail consults before opening an email?
>> - if so does anyone know how to contact the keeper ofthe list to
>> inquire as to how we got on it and how to get off of it?
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.
>> joled