Google Docs Scam Phishes for Email Credentials

There is a new email scam making the rounds online, distributed through malicious spam email campaigns.

The gist of the new scam setup is very simple. Victims receive an email with the subject line "Very Important" because nothing captures your attention like two capital letters. The email is a single sentence but even in the span of a dozen words, it contains several very glaring grammar mistakes.

Victims are told to open a supposed "google doc" to "check on" an invoice. The attached file is a PDF named "Google.doc 28page.pdf" that when opened claims it has been secured with the victim's email credentials.

Even though the notion is quite absurd, it obviously works, as the scam is actively distributed at the moment. Of course, entering your credentials will only lead to them being stolen and your email compromised and likely taken over. Once this happens, the sky is the limit - your contacts may receive further waves of scam emails sent from your account, you can be impersonated in various criminal scenarios, and so on.

Always be careful with unsolicited emails that end up in your inbox and pause to think for a moment before you enter your personal information in any form you opened after clicking a file, link or button in such unsolicited emails.