14 DAY TRIAL // Gmail provides a 'Report Phishing' button that obviously allows you to inform the people working at the Googleplex about a phishing email you received. If you don't know what a phishing message is, let me explain it to you. Basically, it is an email which claims to be sent by a famous company that requires you to submit your private details such as usernames, passwords or financial information. Also, most phishing emails provide a link which redirects the users to a website similar with the one powered by the company that demands the consumers to enter the information mentioned above. Obviously, if the users are so naive to write the details, they are stolen and saved on a server for malicious use.
It seems like Google decided to stop this phenomenon and included a new option that allows them to stay up to date with the latest threats and block them before they reach the consumers' inbox. In fact, I'm not sure if this is something new, but I have never seen it before so maybe my account was updated with it. However, the reports phishing option is something very useful if you want to join forces with the other users looking to stop a dangerous threat which becomes more popular day by day.
By clicking on the 'Report Phishing' button, you're able to see a definition of the phishing phenomenon as well as some details about the entire analyzing process. "Phishing is a form of fraud in which a message sender pretends to be a representative of a legitimate organization in an attempt to trick the recipient into divulging important personal information like a password or bank account number.
If you believe this message is a phishing attack, you can report it to our abuse team and help us thwart this attack and others like it. Reporting this message as an attack will send the entire message to our team for review," the message reads.