Spammers figured out they were able to send messagesvia tagging to “nearly any email address” (as per this article). It’s worth noting this behaviour wasn’t just restricted to Docs other apps like Slides were affected too. This operates in a similar way to how when you type in a username on Twitter, it prefills a bunch of suggestions after the far, so good.Īround October 2020, spam messages via Google Docs came to light. One such Google Docs revampis the “tag tool” which fetches lists of recommended people. The pandemic has helped nudge along additional features into collaboration tools to make remote work more straightforward. Time to cast our minds back to the end of 2020. When a new feature appears, so too do the spam vultures. Quite likely a bit too much work for people who just want to access their calendars without spam, and who can blame them?Īnyway, these things come around time and time again. It was fixable, with the caveat that the fix was a multi-stage process. In 2019, Google calendar users were wading through endless spam invites/event notificationswhen spammers worked out how to game the system.

When it’s easy to dip in and out for collaboration purposes, or just share things generally, then it's likely that bad people will want in on the action. Cloud-based document suites have always been a hot target for scammers.

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