To make matters worse, this isn’t even a new problem, but Google still has done barely anything to fix it. Since it doesn’t offer any acceptance system, all files and folders shared become automatically available.Īlso, if the recipient has “view only” permissions for a file, then it can’t be removed: Source

Google Drive’s sharing system seems to be the main culprit behind this issue. It is very likely that the above type of notification links to some phishing site to steal your banking information.Īlso, this complainant who claims to know Russian reveals the following: Source It remains unclear as to what the motivation is behind such spamming but there are some possible explanations: Source No further action from Google and its become annoying until now cause those damned russian files keep mentioning from different address No clue whatsoever from Google, what I did just report spam and remove it. If I go to Recent then find those damned files. Try to find the email on my folder but nothing. What gives? Why on Earth would I be notified of documents mentioning me? And how do they know it’s me? Is it basically any document containing my email address or something? This seems such an obvious phishing/trojan attempt that I’ve not clicked on any of them. Google Drive keeps popping up messages like this: The result of this issue is several frustrated users ranting about the problem while receiving little to no response from Google: Source Also, if received once, the user continues to receive similar Russian spam from different sources each time. The documents are mostly in the Google Slides format. The notification usually says that someone has mentioned the recipient and comes with some random document attached, also in Russian. Users are now reporting an onslaught of spam notifications in Russian. Google Drive has a pretty bad spam problem, and although it has persisted over the years, things recently seem to have taken an ugly turn. Original story (published on October 19, 2020) follows: New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

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