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Watch out for this Gmail scam that could easily fool you

phonearena.com
submitted
8 mos ago
byjustadevtotechnology

Summary

Microsoft Solutions Consultant Sam Mitrovic could have been a victim. He received a notification asking him to approve a Gmail account recovery attempt that he did not initiate. 40 minutes after denying the request, Sam missed a call from Google Sydney.

Scammers were able to do this by using Salesforce CRM. The latter allows a user to set the sender address to any address that the user wants.

Do not agree to approve any attempt to take over your account. If you're not sure if a request is real, call the company and ask for confirmation.

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7 Comments

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theonesource
8 mos ago
This is stupidly terrifying. So we can't just check for the email sender anymore?
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justadevOP
8 mos ago
Nope, that's the scary part about this. The AI voice call makes it worse.
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theonesource
8 mos ago
Good thing I never answer random calls these days.
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justadevOP
8 mos ago
Call screen has been a savior for me. Scam calls just drop when they hear the assistant come on
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theonesource
7 mos ago
Is that an android thing?
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justadevOP
7 mos ago
Pixel specifically
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theonesource
7 mos ago
Ah that's right! It's all through Google here