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James Rodger & Nicola Roy

Scam warning issued for anyone who uses Gmail or Microsoft Outlook

A 'red alert' warning has been issued to billions of Gmail and Microsoft Outlook users, as scams are on the rise. There has reportedly been a 240 per cent rise in email phishing scams recently, and according to cyber defence company BlueVoyant, they can be tricky to identify.

To help people who may be unsure what a scam email looks like, experts from the company have outlined a couple of typical warning signs as well as explaining why they are actually dangerous, Birmingham Live reports.

The security experts have issued a warning over dynamic phishing in a report that explains: "One of the more complicated ways threat actors evade detection involves multiple redirect paths, steering consumers to spoofed domains while redirecting presumed threat hunters or phishing analysts to an error page.

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