Many things come with the holiday season like pumpkin spice, mall santas, Mariah Carey singing, doorway decorations, and an increase in malware, spam, phishing, and scams. When you are just busy buying Christmas stocking stuffers and decorations threat actors trying to get into your email with scam emails. Phishing attacks, spam, and trying to get your personal data.

Fortunately, Google has released a Gmail warning issued for holiday season scams in detail. This will result in fewer phishing and malware scams hitting inboxes. Google uses LLM: Large Language Model AI to spot patterns and block 20% more spam. With this millions of dangerous messages are blocked.

Here are the three scams that Google highlighted as Gmail warning issued for this holiday scams.

• Invoice Scams: Scammers send fake invoices to victims to prompt them to call to dispute the fake charges and trick them into paying the dues. However, it is not new but this holiday season it is back in popularity.
• Cleb Scams: Anything linked to a popular celebrity will grab attention. Celeb scams claim that a famous person is recommending a product in which the victim is offered a celeb’s name.
• Extortion Scams: The extortion scam is the most aggressive technique. In these scams, a scammer sends an email to a victim with personal details like home address or pictures of their personal life and even includes threats of harm or of releasing all personal details.

However Google advises for Gmail warning issued that you must ignore any sense of urgency the scammers are trying to make, check the details of suspicious emails, and don’t send any payment or personal data. In addition to that mark anything a suspicious email you see to help other users to also avoid these scams.