Why am I getting Google Drive notifications about strangers' documents?

Question

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.

svet_0 · Accepted Answer

It's a common issue google are refusing to solve for some reason - https://support.google.com/drive/thread/6434357

l0b0 · Answer

Workaround: terminate and disable Google Drive.

ev1 · Answer

This is spam, they are just spraying the equivalent of calendar invites

parliament32 · Answer

Yeah it's spam. I clicked through one, it was a one-slide PP with a link going to a phishing site.

Nextgrid · Answer

I wonder if this is a similar attempt that the calendar event spam we had a few years ago where you'd get calendar invites to random events, with the spam being in the event notes.

codegladiator · Answer

Also this from google formshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23004180===Lately getting these spam emails via google formshttps://imgur.com/a/ueO4001Reporting as spam doesn't work. the bitly link takes to a .tk domain.Anyone else facing this ?

ocdtrekkie · Answer

You don't have to be using a Gmail account to get them. My FastMail account got these notifications a few days ago, but by the second day the spam filtered had them figured out.

shostack · Answer

Yep, getting at least one per day now. Horribly annoying. I guess the only solution for now is to totally disable Slides notifications?

visox · Answer

I also had these, couldn't read it anyway.