If you get an email with a google doc to open…don’t.
Apparently there is some issue going on right now.
https://www.wired.com/2017/05/dont-open-google-doc-unless-youre-positive-legit/
This particular phishing scam appears to redirect to non-Google web site (visible if you view the email in a plain text mail reader.
Note that it will be coming from someone you know whose Google accounts have already been compromised by the phishing scam.
It’s all over listservs here.
Always ask someone directly before opening something you’re not expecting (ie a google doc)
Yes…I am active on a professional listserve. I knew something was wrong when I got 43 of the SAME email from one poster…presumably responding to just about every thread within the last 24 hours. I deleted them all…and reported to the site administrator,
I never open links on public forums.
Look at the source - it is not from the google account you think it came from. Got one of these today. Deleted.
@BunsenBurner I can’t look…I deleted the emails!
But geez!!
http://wsvn.com/news/us-world/dangerously-convincing-google-docs-phishing-scam-hits-the-internet/
I read about it and it involves something beyond my ability to understand. Imagine if those same smart people who designed it actually did an honest days work, they could make money and benefit society…instead they go the sleazeball criminal route.
I’m surprised that some of the people I know got sucked into this. Not only did you have to click on the “open Google docs” link, you then had to start filling out your Id and password in the next page for the phishing to start and the emails to spread. All in response to an email from a stranger.
But in most cases the email wouldn’t have been from a stranger. It would come from someone who had you in their address book. It’s kind of brilliant.
I have gotten occasional emails over the years from legitimate email addresses of friends. If it looks fishy, I know they’ve been hacked.
Mine came from D’s college financial aid counselor, and someone who knows who I am. We have just recently been working on aid and a worksheet for the state, and it was completely plausible she would have sent me a copy to review before it was finalized. We’ve emailed multiple times over the last year.
Still mad at myself though. I clicked on the google doc box, and it wouldn’t let me go further. I even tried a couple of times 
I’m hoping gmail or my antivirus was stopping it. I immediately changed all passwords (five minutes after this I started reading on facebook about the scam).
I never open a letter from an unfamiliar address. First you need to understand who this letter is from. And usually from the subject of the letter it is clear, the real letter or spam that sometimes comes from acquaintances.
Again, the emails are being sent with an address KNOWN to the person. I and a co-worker of my husband both got one using the email address of the same person (a high level manager) who is known to both of us (we all work in the same organization - just in different locations). Make sure you look at the address the email was sent TO. The email I got didn’t have my email address listed in the “To:” section - it was to something like "hhhhhhhhhhhh@XXX.XXX… That’s what tipped me off - that and the fact that I extremely dislike the guy who supposedly sent it so I was wondering why on earth he would be emailing me.
Yes, they are sent from LEGITIMATE email addresses of friends, etc. It’s not a fake email- it’s a hacked real email.
The clue in the emails I got…no message written…just a box to open a google doc.
NO ONE would send me something like that without a one sentence note saying what it was.
Oh…and getting 43 of the SAME email…um…nope.
My DS#2 got one supposedly from me. He said it immediately looked very sketchy so texted me to check if I’d sent a doc. He said the email address wasn’t one of mine, but it said at the bottom of the message it was from me (but it wasn’t) .