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In the last weeks, I had several events on my Google Calendar that I did not create or accepted. They looked like they were in Russian, but I can't be sure. I m
by 101008 7y ago
In the last weeks, I had several events on my Google Calendar that I did not create or accepted. They looked like they were in Russian, but I can't be sure. I marked as spam and deleted them, of course, but the next week a different one appeared. Anyone else is going through the same and have any advice?
- MatekCopatek 7y agoHad the same happen, searched around and it seemed to be caused by the Gmail feature that automatically creates events from invitation emails you receive, even if they land in spam. Spammers seemed to be using that to their advantage, so I just turned the feature off. EDIT: The original article covers this and more, go read it :)
- 101008 7y agoYes, I read the original article and I turned off the feature, but it keeps happening. Thank you anyway!
- blck 7y agoI’ve had the exact same happen to me with calendar events a couple times. I also got added to what looked like a Russian Hangouts group chat with over 100 people in it.
- notusererror 7y agoSame here, and I suspect this article explains the mechanism. For weeks, I've been getting escalating numbers of events. It is up to 4 or 5 new invites per day, each with daily repeats. My calendar settings are locked down (eg "Events from Gmail" off) and already have 2FA on the account. Next step for me is to delete gmail calendar entirely. I went to bed last night with a clean calendar, this morning I have 3 spam invites - 2 in Cyrillic alphabet, one "You have won iPhoneXs. Gotta love 3:55 AM wake-up alerts...
- superzadeh 7y agoSame here, I had 3 recurring events about an iPhone X sale or some other spam come in my calendar in the past 2 weeks.