Google Docs Spam?!
Heh. I just got a piece of comment spam. No big deal, other than the hyperlinks included within seem benign on the surface:
- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df2wwh2p_0fzhnr7
- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df2wwh2p_29mb42b
- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df2wwh2p_3fpcbcz
- http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df2wwh2p_4cfmjkx
Go ahead, try one of ‘em. For the moment, you’ll be sent to a sparse page that shows nothing but a centered text advertisement. They’re legit Google Docs - but would this be considered a Google Documents exploit? It’s bad enough I’ve gotta run spam filters on my email - do I have to start watching out for spam documents and spreadsheets, too?
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4 Comments
Scott
January 17th, 2007
at 3:27pm
How are they able to access your documents? Are you making the pubic or something?
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Josue
February 27th, 2007
at 8:21pm
I tried your Google Docs URL’s but were not accessible. If these docs are yours, can you make them public to see the result of what you are talking about? Keep us updated.
Ally
April 22nd, 2009
at 11:39am
Im having a problem with Google Docs spamming my email, I keep getting these weird emails from pople I do not know at other gmail emails, and it looks like it was forwarded to a whole bunch of people…It has a perverted message like “She bangs for the first time” or something, and then a google docs url, I havent clicked on the links because I am afraid of infecting my computer. Any Ideas to what this could be (I emailed the people at google docs, still waiting for a response), any help would be really appreciated!