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Gmail’s anti-phishing feature

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It might have been there all these time, but I only noticed this option in Gmail today.

action panel in Gmail interface

Apparently they consider "phishing":http://www.antiphishing.org/ a special class of problem separated from spam. I think this is good. "Nigerian 419 scams":http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_project/nigeria-fraud.html are easily spotted, but official-looking phishing attempts are quite hard to spot sometimes.

by chris

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