Well, it’s been an interesting few days in the land of spam and phishing. Yesterday I wrote about a spam email I received, along with dozens of others that’s gotten a bit silly. Today I noticed an invite in one of my company calendars, “Your order Estimate OYYE03661 has been queued”:
I’ve seen these before, but not in MY calendar.
So, my first thought was “when did my calendar get changed to “add invitations to my calendar” to “From Everyone”. Needless to say, that should NOT be the default. EVER!
So, if you need to know how to change this in Google, here you go:
Go the gear icon at the top-right of your calendar:
Then click “settings”
Scroll down to Event Settings, the “Add invitations to my calendar”
Then change to “When I respond to the invitation in email”
I’m also going to recommend unchecking the “Show events automatically created by Gmail in my calendar”
Anyway, we need to stay vigilant against fraudsters. This is one annoying game of whack-a-mole.
Sometimes I suspected a software update of changing a setting. Maybe it’s more malicious than that. Heading to event settings now.
Thanks Carl,
DD