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Received an email claimed to send from “Paypal Account Review Department([email protected])” with subject “Please Restore Your Account Access“. Since I have a idle paypal account, I opened the email but Gmail shows me an alert message.

Gmail phishing email protection

I am alerted. Follows the “Learn more” link, it open Gmail help with explaination of the warning message.

Google is currently testing a service designed to alert Gmail users to messages that appear to be phishing attacks. When the Gmail Team becomes aware of such an attack, the details of these messages are used to automatically identify future suspected phishing attacks.

The result: when a Gmail user opens a suspected phishing message, Gmail displays a warning.

Gmail’s phishing alerts operate automatically, much like spam filtering. Gmail’s spam filters automatically divert messages that are suspected of being unwanted messages into ‘Spam’. Similarly, Gmail’s phishing alerts automatically display warnings with messages that are suspected of being phishing attacks so that users know to take care before providing any personal information.

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Checked the email header, it is not an email from PayPal. I reported the phishing email by clicking “Report phishing” link. And, send the email into trash, of course.

Thought:
Gmail team done a good job, again.

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