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Don’t click the Google Docs link in that suspicious email you probably just got

For the first time in recent memory, people all over the internet appear to have just gotten the same phishing email at the same time, and it didn’t go directly into their spam folders. This kind of thing was common in the early 2000s, but rarely happens on such a massive scale today.

ByKeith Collins
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For the first time in recent memory, people all over the internet appear to have just gotten the same phishing email at the same time, and it didn’t go directly into their spam folders. This kind of thing was common in the early 2000s, but rarely happens on such a massive scale today.

It seems to be everywhere, all at once.

It includes an invitation to open a Google $GOOGL Doc.

It will have BCC’d you, and been sent to the address [email protected]. If you click it, it will email everyone in your contacts list.

Luckily, it appears Google may already be catching on.

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