New Edison Mail+ Adds More Protection From Today’s Email Phishing Epidemic
First-of-its-kind AI-based technology upgrades your iOS mailbox security to unparalleled defense offered for mobile devices.
Edison Mail+ is a brand new and powerful AI-based security upgrade for iOS available immediately on the App Store for $14.99 per month or $99.99 per year.
The growth of email phishing scams shows no sign of slowing, as a new phishing site launches every 20 seconds, and 94% of malware is delivered via email.
Key Features of Edison Mail+ include the following:
Verify Sender , a first-of-its-kind feature to proactively warn you as suspicious
emails enter your inbox. Four levels of deep-scanning email criteria validates whether the sender is authentic, so you prevent becoming a victim of a potential scam. Engineered to offer protection for the 98% of emails that are otherwise unchecked.A new Spam Blocker gives you the control to permanently block calls and texts from bothersome email junk senders-- a natural extension from Edison Mail’s existing Block Sender functionality.
Inbox Caller ID discovers and recognizes contact information within email signatures to inform you the name of the email senders when they call or text you.
With AI-based contact recognition technology, Validate Contacts will discover new or changed contact information as it enters your mailbox and offer to update your iPhone’s address book with the new details so contacts are always current.
It’s not just your imagination, you’re probably getting more phishing emails than you were before. However, these email scams have moved past the Nigerian prince scams of years past, (although those are still around ), these new phishing scams have become more advanced and nefarious. Recent studies show that around 1.5 million new phishing sites are created each month, and that phishing attempts themselves grew 65% in 2019 alone. And people are falling for these scams. 30% of phishing messages get opened by targeted users and over 60% of Americans say that they have been victims of an online scam.
With COVID-19, the email phishing epidemic has only grown. In an effort to access vaccine research and information about medical supply chains, Russian hackers have sent malware and fraudulent emails to UK, Canadian, and US organizations. Scammers used fake emails and cloned websites in an attempt to trick German health authorities into spending $16 million on nonexistent face masks. Scammers have also sent fake emails from real domains posing as the World Health Organization in an attempt to solicit donations from individuals in bitcoin.
With all these ever growing dangers and risks out there, the mandatory email phishing seminars from work just don’t seem to be enough anymore. Too many fraudulent emails and senders are able to bypass the traditional filters used by large email service providers today. There needs to be a change.
This is where Edison Mail comes in — introducing Edison Mail+.
Edison Mail+ is a brand new and powerful AI-based email security system engineered to keep you and your information safe in the midst of a $12 billion email scam epidemic . Edison Mail+ offers multiple layers of protection. State of the art phishing detection and prevention identifies, warns and verifies potential email attacks as soon as they enter your inbox. Our new AI-based system recognizes the contact information located in peoples’ email signatures and allows you to block spam calls/texts and identify unknown callers.
Verify Sender
Edison Mail+’s anti-phishing functionality is more effective than those offered by leading email service providers today, and provides additional anti-phishing protection for the 98% of emails that lack DMARC validation. As you use your email as usual, Edison Mail operates in the background, detecting name spoofing based on your previous communications, and alerting you if you’ve received an email from an invalid disposable domain. Verify Sender applies four-levels of deep investigation into new emails you receive. If an email sender or message doesn’t appear or react as authentic email should, you’ll see a warning in bright orange.
If you tap on the warning, we’ll automatically begin a scan of over 70 spam databases to see if this sender is any of these lists. As this happens, you’ll be led to a page that walks through every check we run — the validity of the email header, the validity of the email address, whether or not the address is found in a spam database, and if the sender is attempting to spoof someone’s identity — letting you know exactly where the risk is.
With so much to worry about in the world today, Edison Mail+ ensures that the validity of emails in your inbox doesn’t have to be one of them.
Spam Blocker
If you’re like most people, you probably receive at least a few spam calls a month. Unfortunately, when we say a few we mean an average of 28 a month. There’s more danger to spam calls than simple annoyance, Americans reportedly lost nearly $9 billion from phone scams in 2018. This is what led to the creation of Spam Blocker, a way to permanently clear your phone of these calls and texts, all powered by what’s in your inbox. Inspired by our much loved Block Sender feature, when Spam Blocker detects a phone number in the signature of a previously blocked email contact, you’ll be offered the option to also block all calls and texts from that number. If you tap yes, all future calls will go straight to voicemail and all texts will be hidden.
Inbox Caller ID
In the 1970s when Caller ID first hit the market, people were amazed by what they could do. Now, instead of having to waste their time picking up every single call, they could screen them with a quick glance and decide for themselves if it was worth picking up the call. Now, Edison Mail+ offers the future of Caller ID by connecting contact recognition in your mailbox to the unknown numbers calling or texting your phone. Edison Mail+ discovers phone numbers in the email signatures of those who email you and matches them to the names of email senders. This information is then displayed to you when they call or text, allowing you more opportunity to screen and avoid annoying, or possibly dangerous, conversations.
Validate Contacts
Your phone’s address book is only as up-to-date as you make it. But we all get lazy, and it’s all too easy to have an address book fall out of date. Validate Contacts combats this by putting AI-based contact recognition in your inbox. This facet of Edison Mail+ regularly checks whether the contact information you have in your phone’s address book matches the email sender details of those you contact. Once a discrepancy is discovered, we’ll offer the suggested change, and if you choose to accept it, the contact in your address book will be corrected with a single tap. This simplifies the process of keeping your contacts up to date, and will keep you from falling for imposters and help you identify spoofed emails.
All of these features work together to give you a secure experience never before seen in a mobile device. You’ll be protected from phishing attacks, easily block spam callers, update contact information, and know who’s trying to contact you without having to pick up the call.
Offered in two price packages, you can decide to pay either $14.99 month by month or $99.99 for a full year. Edison Mail+ is the premium version of Edison Mail geared toward protecting you from the rise of dangerous email scams.
Edison Mail+ is a powerful level up of security for your mobile inbox, and a natural first line of defense from our app that has a history entrenched in fighting email fatigue. Our popular spam elimination features like One-Tap Unsubscribe, Block Sender, and automatic block read receipts have always prioritized the safety and sanctity of your inbox. Now Edison Mail+ extends these protections further — keeping your mobile device safe from malicious senders and callers, warning you of spam calls and texts, and ensuring that your contacts are up to date. Pulling from the power of email to protect you, Edison Mail once again makes email the way it should be.
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