Spam Through Google Calendar

April 8, 2008 by Micheal | No comments

UPDATED - 4/12/08 Well, this is a first for me. Maybe someone else has seen this before. I have a Google Calendar account that I like to use to keep upcoming events on, mostly personal information. I also have it setup to where I get email and SMS reminders of those upcoming items.

This morning I got a SMS with a subject of “This mail is for you.” I noticed that it was from my Google Calendar account, but had no idea what that subject meant. I left it as is and decided to check it out once I got to work.

I’ve finally got a chance to look at the information on the event and it’s completely spam. Here, take a look:

Micheal Overton, you are invited to
This mail is for you.

Tue Apr 8 9:30am – 10:30am
(Timezone: Eastern Time)

Calendar: Personal

Ref. Number:E0U/010/826/KM07.
We wish to inform you of the Yearly
sweepstakes program that your Email
Address has won an Award sum of a
total cash prize of 500,000.00
Euros (Five Hundred Thousand Euros)in
this category.A
contact the Agency below for your Claim.
your claim by the following informations:
Name
Age
Sex
Occupation
Address
Telephone Number
Ref. Number: E0U/010/826/KM07
Batch Number: QNL/744-
ZWM9
****************************** *****************,
Euro union lottery.
Claims Agent
Michaeljohn intermediates
Mr michael john
Vereda Norte 3, La Moraleja, Madrid .
(michaeljohn@uymail.com)
Sinerely
Mrs Rose Edwin
Vice president

I’m use to getting these in my spam box and just ignoring them. Now I have to put up with them going to my Google events?! No way. There has to be a way to keep others from sending me invitations. Or maybe only people that I want to send, like those that are in my address book or something. I’ll go digging in the settings later and check things out.

Anything like this happen to you recently with Google Calendar Events? Did you get it to stop and if you did, how?

UPDATE: I got things set right shortly after making this post. A couple days later, I saw a link to another person that was having the same issue. Check it out if you have having the same problems.
[Digital Inspiration via Lifehacker]