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Push Notification - GMail Calendar Alert (10)

09-04-2019 04:17 PM #1 upsp_np (Member)
Push Notification - GMail Calendar Alert

Hello Guys,

In the past days I seen on my private gmail account several alerts Google Calendar-like about an iPhone shipment (classical scam).

My questions is the following: how the publisher got my approval to ping me through calendar? It's a new kind of remarketing: I never seen stuff like this.

What's the Magic? Is there any tool to do it or what?

I attached the screenshot.

09-10-2019 10:05 PM #2 mrrocky314 (Member)

Same here even i am confused

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09-11-2019 01:16 AM #3 rrivero (Member)

Doesn't look like calendar to me, just a regular email

09-11-2019 10:36 AM #4 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rrivero View Post
Doesn't look like calendar to me, just a regular email
Just wanted to say the same thing, looks like classic email spam to me.

09-11-2019 12:16 PM #5 rj_insight (Member)

"The truth is, all that a spammer needs to add an unwelcome appointment to your calendar is the email address tied to your calendar account. That’s because the calendar applications from Apple, Google and Microsoft are set by default to accept calendar invites from anyone."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/spam-in-your-calendar-heres-what-to-do/

09-11-2019 12:52 PM #6 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

Quote Originally Posted by rj_insight View Post
"The truth is, all that a spammer needs to add an unwelcome appointment to your calendar is the email address tied to your calendar account. That’s because the calendar applications from Apple, Google and Microsoft are set by default to accept calendar invites from anyone."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/09/spam-in-your-calendar-heres-what-to-do/
Ah so this is it! Thanks for sharing this, I had no idea something like this was possible

09-11-2019 01:42 PM #7 erikgyepes (Moderator)

Nice one ))

09-11-2019 03:01 PM #8 AdMaven (Veteran Member)

That is so intrusive, whoever taught of this has some high class spamming skills

09-13-2019 09:21 AM #9 matuloo (Legendary Moderator)

More info on this issue here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywi.../#3a5c4bb0279f

09-21-2019 08:27 PM #10 omerbsh (Member)

in case you got an email with "invitation" somewhere even if it goes to spam you will get a notification about that automatically.

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