Gmail to block phishing emails from PayPal

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It's good news for all PayPal and Ebay customers. You don't have to worry about phishing mails if you have a Gmail account. Phishing mails are a kind of spam mails that try to deceive the account holder to gain access to their valuable account information like password . Although, Google already have spam filters in place in their Gmail servers, many spam mails still come through these spam filters. Now onwards, Any mail coming from PayPal or Ebay will be delivered to customers inboxes only if they are digitally signed using DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) tools. They won't even go to spam folder.

Gmail spam guru Brad Taylor wrote in the official Gmail blog

Now any email that claims to come from "paypal.com" or "ebay.com" (and their international versions) is authenticated by Gmail and -- here comes the important part -- rejected if it fails to verify as actually coming from PayPal or eBay. That's right: you won't even see the phishing message in your spam folder. Gmail just won't accept it at all. Conversely, if you get an message in Gmail where the "From" says "@paypal.com" or "@ebay.com," then you'll know it actually came from PayPal or eBay.

Yahoo had made a similar agreement with PayPal and Ebay in September 2007. However, PayPal says that although there will be a reduction in the number of spam mails, the system is not 100 % secure.

Michael Barrett, the chief information security officer for PayPal says

This announcement is great news for the millions of PayPal and eBay customers that use Gmail. However, security on the Internet is never won with a silver-bullet approach, so I still encourage you to follow all of the general safe e-mail rules regardless of whatever e-mail provider you chose.