Is Your Gmail Inbox Getting Filled With This?
If you have a Google Email account, you may have noticed lately a large number of requests for you to try and recover a message that you supposedly sent that didn’t work quite right.
I started noticing these about 10 days ago or so, and I just simply ignore them until I can get time to go and delete them. I have wondered though why all of the sudden I started getting these messages, but didn’t really have the time to research it.
Then this morning in the daily email I got from Computer and Tech expert Kim Komando, she had a small article devoted to this. Kim says that this is obviously an attempt to gain access to your personal information and to not click on any of these emails.
The emails with the weird looking subject line will contain a phony login page that hackers are hoping you will click on. When you click on it, the hackers behind the email can gain access to your password for your Gmail account.
You should delete these messages. If you ignore or decline the message, the hackers will follow up with a message to set up a support call, which in reality will be an AI generated call.
In that call, you’ll hear from someone claiming that someone has gained access to your account. Again, this will sound real, but it is not.
The best way to handle these messages is to just delete them, which may take some time. Over the last 10 days my inbox has been flooded with these darn things.
Hopefully this catches you before you’ve clicked on something you shouldn’t. If you’re not sure, send a message to Google asking for help. You’ll the question mark on the upper right-hand side of the top part of your Gmail account, click on that to send the message to Google.