Tom (the cow man)

🚨LEGITIMATE GOOGLE EMAILS CAN STILL PHISH YOU!🚨 Imagine receiving a phishing email from a REAL Google domain... ✅ Legit "From" Google address ✅ SPF: PASS ✅ DKIM: PASS ✅ DMARC: PASS And it's STILL a scam (Scam that's been ongoing since 2023...)👀 Scammers are abusing legitimate Google email notification workflows to send phishing messages that pass traditional email authentication checks... Here's how the attack works⤵️ - Scammers manipulate a Google app or notification name to display a fake security warning such as "Fake app login", "Subpoena", and others.. The display shows the "App Name" but the "App Name" the scammer puts is the scam text... - Google sends the notification from its legitimate infrastructure, making the email appear trustworthy... - The email includes a legit link to your google account that leads to a dead end and a phone number to call if you need any support or assistance.. - The victim gets confused, calls the number, and the social engineering begins.... 📞THAT PHONE CALL IS THE TRAP! The attacker doesn't necessarily need a malicious link when they can convince YOU to call them... 🔐SO HOW DO YOU PROTECT YOURSELF NOW THEN? ✅ Still Check the sender "From": Expand the From field and inspect the actual address. ✅ Check authentication: In Gmail, open the three-dot menu in top left of email → Show original → Review SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, ensure it shows 'PASS' ⚠️ BUT HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART TO CHECK NOW: Even if ALL THE ABOVE CHECKS PASS, the email can still be malicious! Authentication verifies aspects of where an email came from, NOT whether its contents are trustworthy. 🚩 Never call support numbers provided in unexpected security emails. 🚩 Don't trust an email simply because it came from a legitimate domain. 🚩 Open the company's official website or app yourself and independently verify the alert. Scammers are finding ways to exploit the very systems we rely on to identify legitimate emails. Your best defense isn't just checking WHO sent an email. It's verifying WHAT they're asking you to do. Stay Safe & Stay Vigilant