How To Stay Safe From The Global Gmail Scam Attack

The Google Email scam is done in a way you can't even think you can be affected, except you a smart person. Here how you can prevent yourself from being affected. An Email will be sent to you looking like the company's, once you click on the link its done, your entire private email and your data will be visible to the attacker.

If you haven't click on any mails from gmail you can still prevent yourself from being expose.

If you haven't click any link from Google

First, don't click on any Google Docs links that you're not absolutely certain are legitimate – confirm through some other means with the person sending them that they intended to. If you don't ever click on such a link, then you can't fall victim to one.


And make sure that everyone else you know is vigilant about such scams, too. Also remember that if they are, they probably won't be opening any Google Docs invites you send them – if you need to share something, either let them know an invite is coming or preferably send it through some other means for now.

If You Have Clicked Any Link
If there's any chance that you think you might have been hacked, then follow the steps below. There's no danger done by doing so even if you haven't in fact become part of the attack.

Now head to Google's My Account page, and head to the app permissions options. You'll be looking to remove the very bad but legitimate looking "Google Doc" from having any permissions – if it's there, and has a relatively recent authorised date, then you know that something's up.

Once it's kicked out of your account, the control the scam has over your account will be stemmed – it will no longer be able to read your email or send out the invites.

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