ID: IRCNE2011071165
Date: 2011-07-02
According to 'zdnet', Google has added several visual features aimed at helping its webmail users pinpoint phishing scams.
The anti-phishing enhancements, will display more information about the origin of certain e-mails, especially those spoofed or sent on behalf of someone else.
If someone fakes a message from a sender that you trust, like your bank, you can more easily see that the message is not really from where it says it’s from,” .
Iwaszkiewicz said Gmail will also automatically detect suspicious messages and display a warning (see sample image blow) when it looks like someone may have spoofed a Gmail address.
Google does this by evaluating the message’s authentication data and uses the message header to uncover the sender's email address.
Other Web mail services lack a similar feature. Microsoft's Hotmail, for instance, will display the sender's address at the user's command, but does not do so automatically.
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