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Billions of Gmail users at risk from sophisticated new AI hack

Hackers are spoofing Google email and phone numbers to steal your Gmail credentials

It started when he received a notification asking him to approve a Gmail account recovery attempt, a pretty common phishing technique intended to send the user to a fake login portal to quietly harvest their credentials. Still, knowing that a common tactic used by scammers can mask where a call is really coming from, he remained skeptical and asked for an email to be sent to him to confirm whether the supposed representative was the real deal. Keep an eye out for clear red flags like misspelled words or poor grammar and double-check the sender's email address or phone number to make sure it's correct.

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