Gmail Adds Anti-Phishing Key Feature
Phishing attacks are not uncommon and many people are fooled to believe that someone is sending you a genuine email, though Gmail’s spam filters are excellent, there may be times when you want to confirm if a email is genuine and not a phishing attempt.
Gmail Labs has rolled out a new feature that will add a Anti-Phishing key to all genuine emails from popular sites like eBay and PayPal.
To turn on this feature go to Settings –> Labs and look for Authentication icon for verified senders and enable it.
Once you have enabled this feature, you will see a key next to the vendor from address whenever the email is genuine.
We highly recommend that you turn on this labs feature in Gmail, this will definitely save you a lot of hassles and keep you safe from phishing attacks.
This feature is only limited to emails from PayPal & eBay, however it will be expanded to include more vendors in the future.
New in Labs: The super-trustworthy, anti-phishing key [Official Gmail Blog]
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July 14th, 2009 at 1:03 pm #
I could not tell you how many emails I get from Ebay telling me that I have items I have bidded on and have won and I need to make payment or I receive emails telling me that I need to leave comments about Items that I have bought although I have not been on Ebay for MONTHS!
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