They’ve also stated that their “abuse team is working to prevent this kind of spoofing from happening again.” After its discovery earlier this week, Google has successfully removed the phishing pages. If the scammers successfully obtained login credentials for your Google Docs, they’d also be able to access your email, Chrome browsing history (including searches), YouTube account, and perhaps even be able to make purchases through the Google Play store if you’ve previously registered your payment information.ĭespite the sophistication of this scam, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. This attack on Google Doc users is especially troubling as Google uses a single login across all of their services. To top things off, because the scammers were hosting this attack on Google’s servers, the URL appears to be secure. Generally speaking, phishing URLs are one or two characters different from the official website that they’re masquerading as. And here’s the clincher: because this scam is hosted on Google’s servers (the scam is, after all, a public folder on Google Drive) it effectively sidesteps one of the more reliable ways to detect a phishing scam. Unfortunately for Gmail users, the page in this case is remarkably convincing-emulating Google’s typical login page.
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This fake login page allows scammers to collect your username and password for their own malicious use. Clicking on the link in this message will take you to what appears to be a Google Docs login page-but it’s not. The scam starts with an email referring to an “important document” stored on Google Docs. The Google Docs phishing scam is a textbook example: it aims to trick you into handing over sensitive login details, and it does exceptionally well. Phishing scams can have varying levels of complexity, such as the intricate Netflix phishing scam I wrote about earlier this month, but they all center around one thing-tricking you into willingly giving away your personal information.
These scams can take a variety of forms, though they’re often introduced through email, text messages or social media sites. With 425 million active monthly Gmail users, these “phishermen” have cast quite a large net.īefore we get into the details of this scam, let’s have a little refresher: A phishing scam is a ploy that tricks you into entering sensitive data, like usernames, passwords and bank account information, by emulating a familiar website. The scam targets Google Doc and Google Drive users with a lookalike login page designed to steal your username and password. Gmail users beware: a very convincing, very deceitful, phishing scam has been making its way around the Internet.
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