Edison Mail+ Anti-Phishing Protection Arrives for Android
Powerful new security subscription for mobile email aims to prevent victimization from increasing phishing scam efforts.
Edison Mail+ offers powerful AI-based security for Android users available immediately for download on the Play Store for $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year.
Email phishing scammers continue to target peoples’ fears regarding COVID-19, and over three billion fraudulent emails are sent per day to vulnerable and open inboxes.
Edison Mail+ aims to protect consumers from this growing danger with three unique safety features.
Verify Sender is the first-of-its-kind feature to proactively warn you as suspicious senders enter your inbox through a four level deep email validation scan.
Update Contacts protects you from identity spoofers by ensuring that the contact details of those you keep in contact with match those provided in their email contact details.
LinkedIn Discovery offers a faster and simpler way for you to immediately access a contact’s LinkedIn profile to learn more about them and connect if you wish.
Online scammers haven’t been taking any days off during the pandemic, if anything they’ve been working overtime. With continued fears concerning COVID-19, phishing scams have grown increasingly creative with their tactics by leveraging alluring offers COVID-19 cures, fake masks, and more. Just in June of last year, scammers targeted email users by pretending to be Google Photos, leading to many users downloading malware.
According to the FBI, the latest and greatest phishing scam involves emails, text messages, or phone calls offering early access or more information about the COVID-19 vaccine. Preying on the fears and hopes of people worldwide, these scammers deceive people into providing their credit card numbers, personal information, and downloading malicious software onto their devices.
The phishing epidemic has never been more sinister. More than three billion fraudulent emails are sent per day, and all too many inboxes are left vulnerable and open to attack.
In recognition of this epidemic, last August Edison Mail debuted Edison Mail+, a security subscription offering a new and unique approach to anti-phishing for iOS. This subscription service offers unparalleled inbox protection for consumers to access in mobile email, protecting users from the 98% of emails that otherwise arrive unchecked for malicious intent.
The vanguard feature of Edison Mail+ for Android is Verify Sender, an anti-phishing technology invented by Edison that is more effective than those offered by leading email service providers today. As you use your Edison Mail app as you usually do, Verify Sender operates silently in the background, monitoring the trustworthiness of emails you receive based on the validity of the sender and domain owner. This is done partially through intense SPF and DMARC validation — a configuration that only 2% of email senders currently live up to.
Once a potentially fraudulent email is detected, Verify Sender will provide a bright orange warning to you. If this warning is tapped on, Verify Sender will then begin a four-level deep investigation of the email in real-time by scanning over 70 spam databases, checking the validity of the email header, confirming the email address, and seeing if the sender is attempting to spoof someone’s identity. You will be able to see these checks as they happen, and will receive confirmation of which specific danger you received in your inbox. With all the risks in the world today, Verify Sender ensures that phishing emails aren’t one of them.
Update Contacts is yet another safety focused feature from Edison Mail+. We know that it’s all too easy to have an address book fall out of date, which leaves the door open for imposters and identity spoofed emails to invade your inbox. That’s why this feature places AI-based contact recognition within your inbox to ensure that the contact information in your inbox matches the email sender details of those you correspond with. Once a discrepancy has been discovered, Update Contacts will offer the suggested change, and if you choose to accept it, the contact in your address book will be corrected with a single tap.
LinkedIn Discovery offers a faster and simpler way for you to immediately access a contact’s LinkedIn profile. If an email contact of yours has a LinkedIn profile, Edison Mail+ will discover it and showcase the LinkedIn logo at the top of the message within the avatar bubble, so you never have to go search for the information. In just two taps, you will leave their message and be directed to their LinkedIn profile, without wasting any extra time looking up an email sender or recipient yourself. When you’re finished vetting the LinkedIn profile or sending your invitation to connect, you’ll be able to go back to the message in your Edison Mail app inbox.
Offered in two plans, consumers can decide whether they’d like to pay $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year to keep their inboxes safe and secure during this dangerous phishing epidemic. Verify Sender, Update Contacts, and LinkedIn Discovery are the first features for Edison Mail+ for Android, but consumers can rest assured that additionally useful functionality will be coming down the pipeline in the coming months and years.
Edison Mail+ is a continuation of Edison Mail’s already existing features created to protect consumers from the barrage of spam and email fatigue. Our popular spam-fighting features such as One-Tap Unsubscribe, Block Sender, and automatic block read receipts have always prioritized the safety and sanctity of your inbox. Now with Edison Mail+, consumers can be sure that their inboxes remain safe from malicious scammers as well.
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