How to Avoid Getting Gmail’s Suspicious Account Activity Alert

Your Mastercard company calls you when unusual transactions get posted to your account, and now Google does the same in Gmail. A new security feature, “Google suspicious activity alert,” in your Gmail account supported the IP addresses accessing it. A few Gmail users have already gotten this warning when logging into their computers remotely. In the alert, if you click on the “Show details and preferences” link, you'll remotely sign out Gmail sessions you didn’t initiate. Let’s check below the way to avoid this alert.

 

Steps to Avoid Google Suspicious Activity Alert

While the suspicious account activity alert is useful, it only kicks in after a possible intruder has accessed your account. Instead of wait for the scary alert, lockdown your Webmail now.

 

·         Choose a robust password. Your webmail password should be difficult for others to guess. Change it up every few months, especially after logging on at a public computer or on an open network to avoid Google suspicious activity.

·         Always use https. Most webmail services offer an https connection, but not Gmail. Add the ‘s’ after the http to encrypt your webmail session.

·         Double-check your alternate email address. Most email services allow you to associate a secondary email address with your account, so you'll recover your password if need be. Confirm that the secondary email address is set and that it’s a valid, active account. To make sure you don’t get locked out of your Google account, you'll associate your telephone number with the account to verify your identity via SMS or voice call. 

 

Suspicious activity alerts are the latest in a string of security-related Gmail features. Keeping in mind, these points can prevent you from facing this alert.

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