Warning for email users: Beware of fake ‘Urgent Security’ emails: Nowadays, the methods of online fraud are changing day by day and hackers are trapping people by adopting new tricks. If you have received an email in your Gmail inbox that says “Urgent Security Alert”, then stop and be cautious. This email may not be from the real Google but may be a trick of some cyber thug, which has been sent to steal your account and personal information.
What is this new phishing scam?
Cyber experts say that recently a fake scam is spreading rapidly. In this scam, hackers prepare a copy exactly like Google Security Alert and send it to the users. Reading the email, it seems that it has really come from Google and it is often written in it that some suspicious activity has taken place on your account.
The most dangerous thing is that there is a button in this email on which “Check Activity” or “Review Activity” is written. As soon as a user clicks on that button, he directly reaches a fake Google sign-in page. At first glance, this page looks exactly like the original one, due to which people are easily deceived and enter their login details.
How does the loss happen?
As soon as you fill in your email and password on that fake page, all your information reaches the hackers directly. After this, they get complete control over your account. They can read your mails, send spam to your contacts and if you have saved bank related emails, then they can access your financial information. That is, a small mistake can lead you to a huge loss.
How to protect yourself?
Now the question is how to avoid such dangerous emails. First of all, never panic immediately after seeing an email. Check carefully whether the address of the sender of the email is really from Google or not. A real email always comes from google.com, if the domain looks something else then understand that it is fake.
If you really doubt your account, then instead of clicking on the link given in the email, type gmail.com in the browser and login yourself. Apart from this, keep two-factor authentication (2FA) enabled in your account. This will ensure that even if hackers somehow get hold of your password, they will not be able to login without the code sent to your phone.
And yes, never click on any unknown link. Especially when words like “urgent” or “immediately” are written in the email, because this is the trick of hackers so that you get nervous and quickly click on the link.