07
Apr
2008

Calendar spam, the next nuisance?

Tomorrow morning at 5am where I can enjoy an advanced fee scam! I've had these in email format before but never in my calendar...

Screen-shot of some spam in my calendar

Oddly there are no emails about this in my inbox and I sure didn't tell it to add one to my calendar. As there is no 'Report Spam' link for calendar entries I had to return to calendar view, delete it from there and hope nothing else shows up.

Digital Inspiration also wrote about this and provide a link to Google's spam reporting page.

[)amien

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3 Responses to “Calendar spam, the next nuisance?”


  1. Gravatar 1 Steve Apr 8th, 2008 at 09:04

    Sucky. If this came from a mail you can stop it like this:

    1. Click Settings
    2. In the General tab, change 'Automatically add invitations to my calendar' to 'No, only display invitations to which I have replied'
    3. Save

    If the invite email ended up in your spam box I'm surprised it went through the calendar processing, but this should stop it anyway.

  2. Gravatar 2 Damien Guard Apr 8th, 2008 at 09:04

    I can't find any trace of the email itself...

    Have changed that setting anyway, thanks! :)

    [)amien

  3. Gravatar 3 Binny V A Apr 8th, 2008 at 16:04

    Spam is a fact of life on the internet. I expect it every where - so this don't surprise me much.

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