Ask HN: Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?
Google Drive keeps popping up messages like this: > [redacted]@gmail.com "Mentioned you in [Russian-looking document name]" 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. 9 comments on Hacker News.
Google Drive keeps popping up messages like this: > [redacted]@gmail.com "Mentioned you in [Russian-looking document name]" 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: > [redacted]@gmail.com "Mentioned you in [Russian-looking document name]" 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. 9 comments on Hacker News.
Google Drive keeps popping up messages like this: > [redacted]@gmail.com "Mentioned you in [Russian-looking document name]" 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.
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