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With Google I recently had invites from emails sitting in my spam folder show up in my calendar. You would think that being flagged as spam would be simple to f
by mcbuilder 7y ago
With Google I recently had invites from emails sitting in my spam folder show up in my calendar. You would think that being flagged as spam would be simple to filter on. I actually really value the automatic adding of events to my calendar from legitimate emails, so this was very infuriating as the spam continued to pour in over weeks.
- ptmcc 7y agoHad this happen to me just recently, too. I was super surprised that spam invites showed up on my calendar by default! Wonder if it was something going around, and maybe Google has already fixed it. Hasn't happened again, fingers crossed.
- echelon 7y agoThis recently started happening to me too! Spam emails with ical/calendar attachments get loaded into my calendar even if they're appropriately flagged as spam in my Gmail inbox. It's especially annoying as the spammers create repeated alerts (often late at night). I've wound up with dozens of these I have to manually clear from my calendar. All of this started a few weeks ago. Perhaps it was a regression rather than a new exploit? Google/Gmail engineers: please file this as a bug.
- dannyking 7y agoNote that if in Google calendar you mark one of those events as spam, all the recurring ones are automatically removed, whereas if you just delete one it does not remove the others. There's a 'report spam' option (desktop only) in the little drop down options when you open the event.
- fromanator 7y agoI was so frustrated that reporting spam was desktop only. To add insult to injury if you try to go to the web app on your Android phone in a desktop tab it still opens the Android app instead. Since I was at work (and I don't login to any personal accounts on my work laptop) I had to use Firefox mobile to mark them all as spam.
- masonic 7y agoThe Gmail Android app has had "Report spam" in the 3-dot menu for a long time.
- danielsamuels 7y agoWhich is not what's being discussed here.
- plibither8 7y ago> To add insult to injury if you try to go to the web app on your Android phone in a desktop tab it still opens the Android app instead. If you long-press the "Desktop" link and "open in new tab", the webapp will be opened in the browser and not in the Android app.
- ineedasername 7y agoSame. I had to turn off the feature. It's rather unprofessional to have a meeting for (and this actually happened) a $15 blowjob on my calendar. I mean, I guess there are some illicit businesses that, being very time conscious, plan and slot such things in detail. But it's still the sort of thing I expect Google to catch, especially when the email is already in the spam folder.
- sschueller 7y agoI can also confirm this as it happened to me yesterday in my Gmail account.