Recently Gmail labs team introduced a new security feature to completely stop spam and phishing emails. Last year they started a program for spam filtration from fake eBay and PayPal mails.
What does this feature do?
As most of the people were not aware of the spam filtration feature so Gmail team decided to create an actual icon for a verified account so people would recognize an email address that’s legitimate. After enabling this feature you will see a super-trustworthy icon next to verified emails so that you can know that they are not trustworthy but super-trustworthy.
According to the official blog super-trustworthy means :
1. The sender, usually a financial institution, is a target of phishers
2. All of the sender’s email is authenticated with DKIM
3. Gmail rejects any fake messages that claim to come from this sender, but actually don’t.
Currently this feature is limited to eBay and Paypal only but they hope to add more senders in the future.
How to enable it
Visit Gmail settings >> Labs and look for “Authentication icon for verified senders”, select Enable beside it and click on Save changes at the bottom.
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