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How to Stop Email Bomb Attacks on Gmail

How to Stop Email Bomb Attacks on Gmail Illustration of an email bomb attack on Gmail. /Freepik/rawpixel.com  - In the modern era like today, Gmail has become an electronic mail or email service that is used for daily activities.  With Gmail, users can send and receive messages easily and quickly. However, behind all its practicality, there are irresponsible individuals who actually misuse it.  One frequently encountered form of abuse is email bomb attacks. Email bombing is the act of flooding a server with large amounts of spam emails.  Not only do they cause the Inbox to become full, email bombs can also prevent users from getting security notification emails from Google. This is what hackers use to take over user accounts.  If you experience an email bombing attack, there are several steps you can take to deal with it.  How to Deal with Email Bombs in Gmail Google actually already has a feature to detect email bombs. Users will also receive a warning notification if some