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Something fishy is going on!

by joseph7384
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I needed to create a document so I logged into my Google Docs account and noticed a few salepage looking documents but these were not created by me so I'm assuming that my Google account was hacked.

One of these pages has links to a WSO, how do you determine if it's from the creator or an Affiliate.


  • Profile picture of the author garyv
    I believe that google docs allows you to transfer the ownership of a document to anyone, so long as you know the email address of the person you're transferring to. So it's likely that your account was not hacked.

    It looks like a new way of spamming people. I'd just trace down the affiliate link and report it to the affiliate program being used. But it's likely that there's not much you can do about it.


    edit - I'm not sure if google tells you who transferred it or not.
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    • Profile picture of the author joseph7384
      Originally Posted by garyv View Post

      I believe that google docs allows you to transfer the ownership of a document to anyone, so long as you know the email address of the person you're transferring to. So it's likely that your account was not hacked.

      It looks like a new way of spamming people. I'd just trace down the affiliate link and report it to the affiliate program being used. But it's likely that there's not much you can do about it.


      edit - I'm not sure if google tells you who transferred it or not.
      A new way of spamming or maybe an accidental transfer to the wrong account!
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      • Profile picture of the author Dan Riffle
        Originally Posted by joseph7384 View Post

        A new way of spamming or maybe an accidental transfer to the wrong account!
        I doubt it was accidental. What are the odds that someone working on a WSO-related document accidentally transferred the document to somebody - out of the millions who use Google Docs - who even knows what a WSO is?
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    You would think Google would be smart enough to make it so the person receiving agrees to receive the document.
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