A few months ago, spam came to Google Calendar. Now, phishing has arrived.
Intrepid Google watcher Philipp Lenssen wrote late last week about being the target of a phishing attempt via Google Calendar.
He received an e-mail to his Gmail account with a reference to a legitimate event from his calendar. The sender was listed as “customer care” and it asked him to verify his account by supplying his user name and password.
“We are having congestions (sic) due to the anonymous registration of Gmail accounts so we are shutting down some Gmail accounts and your account was among those to be deleted. We’re sending you this email to so that you can verify and let us know if you still want to use this account,” the e-mail stated, complete with grammatical and spelling mistakes that can tip people off to phishing attempts.
On Might 28 a Google Talk Guide addressed the issue in a Google Groups thread. He urged users to click the “Report Phishing” link if they receive suspicious e-mails and not click on links or open attachments.
Google representatives didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on Monday.
Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscope writes about how phishers targeted him via Google Calendar. This is a screenshot of the e-mail he received.
(Credit: Blogoscoped)
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