Seen in the wild: 419 scammers now using calendar invites

Desperate to purloin money out of stupid and desparate people, 419 scammers are now trying Google Calendar invites.

The pain of it is that if you’re using Outlook, the calendar invite is automatically accepted and you get a reminder popping up.

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This has to be the rudest, nastiest spam I’ve seen in a long time.

Alex Eckelberry

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