Published On 6/11/2025
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Last update: 10:27 (Mecca time)
Surf Shark, a virtual private network (VPN) platform, announced that fraudulent emails may become a thing of the past for subscribers of Surf Shark One and Surf Shark One Plus.
SurfShark offers VPN services, cybersecurity, and various privacy and security tool packages.
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The platform announced that it has added a new tool to examine fraudulent emails and exclude them from the user’s mailbox on the Gmail email service.
The company said that the new artificial intelligence tool was trained to analyze emails for signs of fraud and manipulation, including suspicious content, sender information, and other characteristics common in fraud attempts.
She added that the new tool she added can scan links in the body of an email to check for potential malware.
It is noteworthy that virtual private networks are important privacy and security tools for any Internet user, as they work to anonymize Internet traffic by routing it through their servers, which can be anywhere in the world.
Chrome browser
Surf Shark currently provides the new tool for the Google Chrome browser and the Gmail service, due to the new feature being linked to the Surf Shark Chrome extension. The new feature cannot be used with Internet browsers other than Chrome.
To use the new “Surf Shark” tool, the user needs to subscribe to one of the “Surf Shark One” or “Surf Shark One Plus” services, the subscription for which starts at $59 for a period of 27 months, and install the “Surf Shark Chrome” browser extension on the device.
SurfShark currently allows an unlimited number of devices to be linked to a single account, allowing users to share this tool with friends and family.
In its blog post about the new tool, the company stated that all data filtered through the fraudulent email screening tool is stored briefly on internal servers, and no data is exported to external platforms that might use the data to train artificial intelligence.
Surf Shark also confirms that it deletes user data after completing scanning for fraudulent emails.