Gmail To Take Preventive Measures To Avoid Phishing Scam

Last week, two internet giants Google and Facebook became the victims of the phishing scam. became the buzz issue in the tech world. A European fraudster Evaldas Rimasauskas was arrested for creating duplicate employees of Google and Facebook.

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Keeping that in view, Google is taking security measures to avoid phishing and other cyber security breaches in future.

Now, Gmail is embedded with a new anti-phishing security feature which warns the user from opening suspicious emails or links. With this feature, Gmail for android will warn the user if they click any untrusted or malicious links to keep the user’s account safe. This measure is taken in order to increase the awareness among the users about the phishing and other fraudulent practices.

This new feature in Gmail is similar to the safe browsing feature introduced in Google chrome last year. The safe browsing add-on warns the user about the link which they click is linked to a suspicious or malicious website. This security feature is now limited to the android user and will be extended to all users in few days.

Cooper Quintin, Staff Technologist, Electronic Frontier Foundation spoke about the Google Docs phishing scam that how a deceptive mail made people link to a malicious code which quickly entered into their message programs and had spread automatically to others.

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Google has already announced about deactivating the fake accounts which were associated with the phishing scam. This new additional security by Google will keep its users secure by saving from cyber attacks.