Just another reason to love and use Gmail. Reading their official blog today, Gmail is going to roll out yet another security feature enhancement.

Have you ever received those emails from friends requesting money sent to them in a foreign bank account because they had a quick travel and accidentally got robbed or kidnapped and the only way they can be released is if somebody sent them money and all that yada yada yada stuff?

You are lucky if you haven't but most of us have, in fact, I just received one two days ago.

Well, there is a reason to rejoice, for one of the Gmail Engineers, Pavni Diwanji, has just posted an update on the gmail blog saying that, as of today, Gmail is introducing a new feature to notify their users when they detect suspicious login activity on user accounts. This is in addition to the already aexisting remote sign out and information about recent account activity where one could see this information displayed at the bottom of inbox notifying them of the last login activity prior to the current one.

This new warning notice will display the following message, "Warning: We believe your account was last accessed from…" along with the geographic region that they can best associate with the access.

To determine when to display this message, their automated system will match the relevant IP address, logged per the Gmail privacy policy, to a broad geographical location. Click on the "Details" link and you'll see the last account activity window along with the most recent access points. If you think your account has been compromised, you can change your password from the same window. If you know it was legitimate access you can click "Dismiss" to remove the message.

Source: Gmail Blog - Gmail Official Blog