Hackers are using AI to scam gmail accounts

[linesman66]

Hackers Harness AI to Spoof Your Gmail Account: What You Need to Know

 

[browney]

I'm deep-rooted into the Google ecosystem, have alot of Google products and use Google drive/photo alot but I do have 2fa enabled but I'd devastated if I lost my account.

 

[loncell]

There's a few very simple rules to follow here:-


if someone rings you regarding anything whether it be tax, doctors, bank, council, Amazon etc etc etc and they ask you for personal or security or login details of any sort remember this, the vast majority would never ring you and start asking you for security details. The simple thing to do is, ask who they are, a name and hang up then ring that relevant department using their official online contact details and simply ask has such abody been trying to contact you.
Never reply to any text emails with links regardless even if there's a chance their legit, ignore & delete. If your buying online use a credit card not debit or PayPal but my pref is a credit card, this way you have some kind of protection especially with credit card your insured. Always remember this, with a credit card you are buying with the banks money not yours. Regular change your Google password, I change mine weekly or use a password protection say Nord or one of numerous others.
Use a VPN
I'm not saying these tips are bullet proof will protect you 100% but they will go a long long way to preventing online fraud and you been scammed

 

[loncell]

Oh and the infamous Whatsapp picture virus , that comes from a friends infected phone, Hi , I saw this and thought it reminded me of you, you open your done and it gets sent to all your contacts. But the latest I heard was (I thought this was a master stroke) the lost USB stick. So basically you will find a key, a key ring with a USB stick attached that might even be a stick with caddie and a micro SD card in it. It might be on the seat on a tube bus cafe any public place. You inquisitiveness leads you to find who's key is it ? whats on the stick. The moment you put the stick into a device or SD into your phone thats it

infected
the owner gets full remote access of your device and they can freely mooch through your device undetected taking what they need,

 

[Aristotle]

Using an authenticate app is also worth looking at.
I use Authenticator and I am given a code that last for thirty seconds to login with but there are others and Google have their own authenticator app.
Get verification codes with Google Authenticator - Android - Google Account Help.