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A scam targeting Gmail account holders has been making the rounds and you could easily get caught up in this ripoff. Microsoft Solutions Consultant Sam Mitrovic could have been a victim as he explained in a blog post detailing what happened to him. 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.
A week later, at around the same time of the day, Mitrovic once again received a notification asking him to approve a Gmail account recovery attempt which he once again refused to approve. And once again, after 40 minutes he received a phone call. This time, he picked it up and found himself talking to an American even though the call originated from Australia.
The man on the other end of the call says that there is suspicious activity on his account. He asks Sam whether he is traveling or if he logged in from Germany. When he responds "No" to both questions (which are designed to scare the victim into thinking that his account has been compromised), Mitrovic is told that someone has had access to his account for a week and downloaded the account data.
Watch out for this Gmail scam that could easily fool you
An AI-based scam that also involves the use of a Gmail phishing attack is sophisticated enough to fool many.
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