# Google is Blocking 18 Million Coronavirus Scam Emails Every Day

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**Tags:** hacking, technology, news\
**Created:** [April 20, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055 "2020-04-20T12:24:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aina](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/aina/32/167469_2.png) [@Aina](https://onehack.st/u/Aina)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055/1 "2020-04-20T12:24:19Z")

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1.5 billion people use Gmail, according to a recent article in the BBC. And every day millions of them receive an email about a coronavirus scam:

_Scammers are [sending 18 million hoax emails about Covid-19 to Gmail users every day](https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52319093), according to Google… The company said it was blocking more than 100 million phishing emails a day. Over the past week, almost a fifth were scam emails related to coronavirus. The virus may now be the biggest phishing topic ever, tech firms say…_

 

The growth in coronavirus-themed phishing is being recorded by several cyber-security companies. Barracuda Networks said it had seen a 667% increase in malicious phishing emails during the pandemic…

_Google claims that its machine-learning tools are able to block more than 99.9% of [scam] emails from reaching its users._

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**Author:** ![Syed\_Fazal\_Hassan](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/syed_fazal_hassan/32/39272_2.png) [@Syed\_Fazal\_Hassan](https://onehack.st/u/Syed_Fazal_Hassan)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 7:36pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055/2 "2020-04-20T19:36:49Z")

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I wonder how these people convince their morale to Rip Off Innocent lives by scamming them.

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**Author:** ![FlashyFlash](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/flashyflash/32/36454_2.png) [@FlashyFlash](https://onehack.st/u/FlashyFlash)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/google-is-blocking-18-million-coronavirus-scam-emails-every-day/81055/3 "2020-04-21T07:18:58Z")

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This is nothing…in America, some ppl r scaming ppl with fake testing centres…imagine that now  
Human Greed..knows no bounds