Suspicious Emails and the Phish Alert Button (PAB)
Phish Alert Button (PAB)
If you are faculty or staff, please continue reading about how to flag emails with the Phish Alert Button (PAB). For everyone else, you can forward questionable emails to spam@asburyseminary.edu
If you use a web browser to view your Asbury Seminary email, you should see a new button that looks like a fish (Phish) hook 
in the right side panel of your GMail page (you may need to click the little arrow near the bottom right of the GMail page to "Show Side Panel"). This is the Phish Alert Button (PAB) which will allow you to report phishing emails. This button should be used for suspicious emails that ask you to take a specific action like clicking on a link, downloading a file, or providing personal information. While viewing an email, click the PAB and then make sure that you confirm that you want to report the email by clicking the blue PHISH ALERT button. The PAB is not available while viewing email via Delegated access - i.e. you must be logged in as the actual user of the account in order to use the PAB.
in the right side panel of your GMail page (you may need to click the little arrow near the bottom right of the GMail page to "Show Side Panel"). This is the Phish Alert Button (PAB) which will allow you to report phishing emails. This button should be used for suspicious emails that ask you to take a specific action like clicking on a link, downloading a file, or providing personal information. While viewing an email, click the PAB and then make sure that you confirm that you want to report the email by clicking the blue PHISH ALERT button. The PAB is not available while viewing email via Delegated access - i.e. you must be logged in as the actual user of the account in order to use the PAB.If you use a mobile GMail app, you'll need to scroll to the bottom of the email to see the PAB button. NOTE: The PAB is NOT available when using the iPhone/Apple Mail app or when viewing delegated email accounts.
If you're viewing your email from some other source than mentioned above, OR if you're viewing email via Delegated access, you can forward the email to spam@asburyseminary.edu. This is not the preferred method since it now appears to the review process that the email came from you rather than the original sender, but it can still be partially reviewed.
In any case, whether browser or mobile PAB, or forwarded email, the email will be reviewed and, if determined to be malicious, the entire asburyseminary.edu email domain can be scanned for similar emails so that those can be quarantined and eliminated from other users' Inboxes. So, using the PAB not only reports a malicious email, but also helps protect other uses in the system as well.
For unsolicited, unwanted, or just plain annoying emails from unknown sources, you may continue to use your email viewer's SPAM or JUNK buttons.
The attached PDF provides some additional information about the PAB
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