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Gmail: coronavirus themed scams, what to do and how to protect yourself

Gmail: over 18 million coronavirus-themed phishing emails. Scams, viruses and malware disguised as emails from official bodies. Here's what to do, how to recognize them and how to protect yourself.

Phishing and coronavirus themed scams invade Gmail : Google's popular email client is experiencing a real wave of fake mails with COVID-19 themed communications, messages that actually hide malware, viruses and real scams of users. What to do and how to protect yourself?

Defending your Gmail account from email phishing and scams is possible by following a few simple tips: never as in this last period have attacks of this type occurred via email. Google has said in the past week that it has blocked around 100 million phishing attacks through its client. Of these, 18 million related to coronavirus-related messages.

It is therefore clear how the favorite subject of the authors of these emails are precisely the issues related to current affairs: and what is more current than the pandemic we are experiencing? Here's what to watch out for .

Gmail: beware of coronavirus-themed emails, how to defend yourself

Given that Google already provides an extremely solid defense barrier to this type of scams that run via email, it can often happen to find oneself among the emails in bizarre or out of the ordinary messages, of dubious origin.

Recent coronavirus scams are taking advantage of urgent, often alarming, communications, taking advantage of official organizations such as governmental organizations, with the aim of acquiring authority: WHO, charities and non-profit organizations, INPS and much more.

All that is current and important is exploited by scammers to fuel the credibility of these emails, perfectly recreated by borrowing logos and much more, and making the most naive users fall into the trap.

For example, if you use an official body such as the Red Cross to ask for donations, the scammers will aim to have access to your personal and bank details. If, on the other hand, the purpose is to have you download a patient on your device, they will take advantage of official related communications from a special link.

Google has currently implemented the controls and filters useful to counter this type of fraudulent email but to protect yourself better you have to do your part: if you receive this type of messages always check the sender, often it is precisely in the starting address that the unequivocal proof of false identity.

Never download attached files without having first thoroughly checked the emails arriving from senders unknown to you and if out of curiosity click on the attached web pages, carefully check the domain (which will indicate the scam through an unofficial web address) and avoid entering the your personal data.

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INPS: "Emergency income could cost 2 billion"

We are working together with the government to propose emergency income" for those who have been "excluded from other measures" . The audience of beneficiaries "could be 1 million nuclei, with an average of 2.5-3 members per nucleus" and therefore a total of "2.5-3 million interested people". The expenditure would be "important", equal to about "€ 2 billion". This was stated by the president of INPS, Pasquale Tridico , during the hearing in the Work in the Chamber committee, on the problems of functioning of the Institute's website on the occasion of the request for the 600 euro bonus.

'' The Minister of Labor - added Tridico - is thinking of how to be able to review, in an emergency period, the Isee criteria '' to access citizenship income.

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