Google Blocks 18 Million COVID-19 Related Scam Emails Each Day

Google says that Gmail blocks more than 100 million phishing emails per day. Now, Google is seeing 18 million daily malware and phishing emails related to COVID-19. This is in addition to more than 240 million COVID-related daily spam messages.

According to Google, their machine learning models have evolved to understand and filter these threats, so that they can continue to block more than 99.9 percent of spam, phishing and malware from reaching users. The phishing attacks and scams Google is observing use both fear and financial incentives to create urgency to try to prompt users to respond. Here are some examples: