They warn about a new Gmail scam that could easily fool you

In the digital and technological ecosystem in which we find ourselves, the majority of scams are already carried out within the virtual environment, and we must be careful because cybercriminals will want to access our social networks, email accounts and obviously our bank account.

Now they have located a scam aimed at Gmail users that is so sophisticated that it could easily deceive you and they achieve this through the use of artificial intelligence.

This is what he has reported Sam MitrovicMicrosoft solutions consultant, who was very close to falling into a scam, and who has detailed everything in a post on his blog.

The scam started when you received a notification on your account. Gmail asking him to approve an account recovery attempt that he had not initiated.

He evidently knew this was something strange and rejected the request, but interestingly, he then received a call from Google Australia. At that moment he didn’t pick up the call either and forgot about the situation.

However, a week later, the exact same thing happened, he again received a notification in his Gmail email to approve an account recovery attempt, and he rejected it, but after 40 minutes he received a phone call supposedly from Google, and He wanted to answer it out of curiosity.

A very real Google operator

The call came from Australia, although he was talking to a supposed North American operator.

This supposed operator told him that there was suspicious activity in his Gmail account, and asked him several questions about it, finally telling him that someone had had access to his account for a week and had downloaded all the data.

During the call, Mitrovic Googled the phone number from which he had received the call and was able to confirm that it was a legitimate Google number in Australia. Still, he knew that scammers can make a call look like it’s coming from a particular number.

“Scams are becoming more sophisticated, more convincing, and used on an ever-larger scale. People are busy, and this scam sounded and looked legitimate enough for me to give them an A for their effort. Many people are likely There are many tools to fight against scammers, however, on an individual level the best tool is still vigilance, doing the basic checks mentioned above or seeking help from someone you trust,” explains Mitrovic.

Since he didn’t trust it at all, he asked the supposed Google manager to send him an email to authenticate the validity of the call. Interestingly you received this email and it seemed legit.

However, upon closer inspection, he noticed that there was something strange about one of the addresses in the “to” field that seemed to indicate that it came from a domain that wasn’t actually Google’s.

In the end, after the suspicions, he was able to investigate the call a little more and he realized that all this time he had not been talking to an American operator, but to an artificial intelligence.

Luckily, he did absolutely nothing to have his account stolen, but he saw that it was a scam that had been going on for some time and in which hundreds of people had fallen victim.

If you had approved that account recovery notification, you would have lost access to it.

You must be careful and never answer calls of this type that ask you to click on a link or provide certain confidential information.

Obviously, do not click on email links that you receive and that you have not previously requested.

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Tags: Gmail, cybercriminals