how to stop google drive spam notifications

What gives? Why on Earth would I be notified of documents mentioning me? And how do they know it’s me? Is it basically any document containing my email address or something? This seems such an obvious phishing/trojan attempt that I’ve not clicked on any of them. Google Drive keeps popping up messages like this: The result of this issue is several frustrated users ranting about the problem while receiving little to no response from Google: Source Also, if received once, the user continues to receive similar Russian spam from different sources each time. The documents are mostly in the Google Slides format. The notification usually says that someone has mentioned the recipient and comes with some random document attached, also in Russian. Users are now reporting an onslaught of spam notifications in Russian. Google Drive has a pretty bad spam problem, and although it has persisted over the years, things recently seem to have taken an ugly turn. Original story (published on October 19, 2020) follows: New updates are being added at the bottom of this story…….

How to stop google drive spam notifications