At the news site soylentnews.org I read:
> In the last several weeks I've been getting spam via my Google Drive Account.
>
> It seems someone can share a document with you knowing nothing more than that
> you have a Google Email Account.
> They simply put some spam in a folder, and then share that widely to
> thousands of Google users.
>
> The files sit in their google drive, not yours. And you don't have to click
> on them. But if you do, who knows what sort of malware can be hidden in there.
>
> If you have the Google Drive App
> <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.docs>
> installed on your Android device, it wants to notify you about each new item
> shared with you.
>
> So the app, running on your phone dutifully opens the shared item, and shows
> you a thumbnail. And if you tap the notification it takes you right into the
> Google Drive app, and opens that unknown shared item and shows text and
> images to you.
>
> By the time you realize how dumb that tap was the damage could already be
> done.
>
-- https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/11/06/1338235
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