Gmail’s Verified Sender feature can help save you from phishing scams.

With all the phishing attempts out there you need protection everywhere to make sure you don’t fall into the trap. If you’ve been using emails for a while now you must have come across some flavor of phishing attempt. You get an email that exactly looks from the original sender when looked overall but you can only see that it’s from the phisher if you are eagle-eyed. Many people fall into this trap and end up giving their bank account details, credit card information and many other valuable information and end up paying heavy price for it.

If you use Gmail you have some cover with Gmail Labs’ Verified Sender feature.

With Verified Sender enabled you’ll see a yellow key icon next to the email address of the sender if the sender is a verified sender. Currently Gmail supports PayPal and eBay emails as verified and obviously it will be expanded to include more senders and businesses.

Navigate to Gmail Labs and scroll down locate “Authentication icon for verified sender“. Click on the “Enable” option and hit the “Save Changes” button at the bottom of the page.

Once enabled, whenever you get an email from the verified senders (currently PayPal and eBay) you’ll see an yellow key icon in front of the sender’s email address.

You can also see the Verified Sender indicator icon when you open an email message.

Gmail’s Verified Sender feature, when used appropriately, can help detect the phishing emails. I hope you make use of it and don’t fall for the phishing scams.

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