Cybersecurity Blog

Fake Email Appears to Come from Google – 02/16/18

Has this email shown up in your inbox?

It comes from an email address that totally looks legit. The email address displayed is the one you gave Google when setting up your gmail account. When you hover over the links it seems legit.  Do you click or not?

You definitely don’t click. Cyber criminals are getting better and better at creating emails that look completely legitimate.  Trying to determine whether to click or not, is getting harder and harder. If you receive emails from a company or organization that you know, do not click on links or open attachments but go directly to their website to look for the info.

If you receive this message from Google in your inbox:

  1. Login to your Google account.
  2. Go to My Account.
  3. Scroll down to locate Sign- in and security.
  4. Select Device activity & security events. If there is an issue with your account, the details will be listed here and you can change your password.

Of course if you had enabled two step verification, you wouldn’t have to worry. The criminal wouldn’t be able to access your account even if they had your password and you would have been notified outside of email that there was an attempted breach.