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...
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
Hello Damien
You have received this email as a customer of our sister company, Friends Reunited.
Stared back at me from my inbox yesterday purporting to be from UK television company ITV. It was curious because I always de-select the marketing option. I visited Friends Reunited site to confirm the option was indeed off which it was. More interestingly it stated it would be for their own marketing messages, not third parties which their privacy policy clarified:
We, and (where relevant) our credit card processing agents, will not supply your personal data to a third party for commercial exploitation - thus, you can rest assured that we will not sell the lists of our Members' email addresses to a third party; and
Yet here they are doing exactly what they claim not to.
Two subsequent emails to their support team resulted in one stating they have switched my third-party emailing option off (there is no such option, they claim never to do it at all) and when I clarified this for them another stating:
All members comments and suggestions are noted and passed onto our management team for consideration.
Such blatent disregard for their own policies and European regulation should not be ignored. If you live in the UK and a UK company is spamming you then complain to the Information Commissioners Office.
[)amien