Google Calendar Russian Spam

It works like this.

Google calendar russian spam. When i say strange these were almost entirely in russian except for some website addresses which i. Phone call sits an appointment you weren t expecting. Updated with comment from google and revised instructions for removing calendar spam.

It s tough to avoid since the events are based. This story was originally published on may 11 2018. The spam looks like this.

A few weeks ago i started noticing strange appointments showing up on my google calendar. Google allows you to be invited without ever sending an email invitation and by default google calendar adds these spam events to your agenda. For some time now google calendar users have been vulnerable to a rather nasty type of spam that seems to have gained momentum lately.

While google calendar spam is growing spamming meeting invitations in online calendars is not new. Calendar spam is not new. Nestled on your calendar between a 1 30 p m.

Yes google calendar spam is a thing and a quick search through twitter revealed hundreds of complaints in recent weeks. Lunch and a 2 30 p m. While google has added a toggle to prevent.

An email containing an invitation to an. Spammers were able to exploit a similar apple feature in 2016.