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  • Sorry if this sounds combative, but I just don’t think I’m understanding what’s going on, I can’t figure out how this could possibly work.

    How does that even work though? Like… the exported doc is just a web page, it doesn’t have any google watermarks (except the now invisible ones) marking it as a google web page.

    If it’s hosted on an external domain… it doesn’t have the google domain in the URL bar either…

    Like how is the scam victim fooled vs a normal web page with the same information… How is a google docs HTML export visually different from a LibreOffice or Microsoft Office HTML export in a way that tricks the scam victim into thinking it’s legitimately from Google and therefore laundering the scammers reputation through Google. Like I know scam victims are generally distracted or otherwise not thinking clearly (or just dumb), but how does this work?

    Besides the default font basically any Word Processor HTML export looks the same to a layman, it’s plain black text on a white background with 1in margins. If scam victims trust plain white backgrounds and simple formatting there’s a ton of ways to achieve that effect that bypass Google.