This file or folder immediately shows up in the “Quick Access” area of your Drive, as well as in the “Shared with you” section. Here’s the scenario: a spammer (or anyone else) shares a file or folder with you. And to make matters even worse, this is far from a new problem, but Google still hasn’t done anything to fix it. To make matters worse, if you only have “View” permission, you can’t remove yourself from the share.
Since it doesn’t offer any sharing acceptance, all files and folders shared with your account are automatically available to you in Drive-they just show up. Google Drive’s sharing system is the problem. In the interim, users who are experiencing similar issues can remove themselves from the folder, and the folder should not reappear in either “My Drive” or “Shared with Me” unless they revisit it.” - Google Spokesperson Here’s What’s Happening In light of this issue, we are evaluating changes to our spam, abuse, and blocking features that will prevent this kind of activity from taking place on Drive. Unfortunately, this was not the case for this user and we sincerely apologize for her experience. “For the vast majority of users, the default sharing permissions in Drive work as intended. Update 1/4/19 10:10 AM CTS: Google got back to us with a statement saying that changes are coming to Drive’s sharing features and they’re “making it a priority.” Here’s the statement in full: Spammers can share files that automatically appear in your Drive, and there’s no way to stop it.
Google Drive has a pretty bad spam problem, and it seems Google doesn’t care.
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