I was checking my Gmail spam box today just to see if any regular email has been considered as spam . I was intrigued by the title of a spam, so I just opened it to see what kind of idiocy I would find today. Apparently Visa contacted me to let me know that I had to update my credit card information.

Lucky enough, Gmail does a pretty good job in preventing people from being ripped off by these crooked people, and displays a big message labelled in red mentioning the danger of the spam.

You can see a screenshot of Gmail in action here.

I have to say that I’m kind of impressed by their technology here. Of course I would never believe in those kind of emails, but unfortunately, many folks who are not Internet savvy might believe in them. Besides adding these obvious warning messages, they also seem to have disabled the “click here” link.

Thanks Google for showing me a good example of your actions against spam, at least of the one in my mail box…