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Some new type of email spamming I heard about recently is Outlook spam (haven’t seen one of these yet, but thought I would share some of the information I have heard so you can be ready for it).

Apparently spammers have figured out they can send you a spam email that is one of those emails you send to add a date to your Outlook.

With these Calendar notices you usually have to accept them to get them permanently placed in your calendar. However, for the most part, these items still end up in your calendar as tentative items. If you happen to share your calendar across your business, this means others might see a tentative appointment with porn at 3pm on Tuesday.

Even if you don’t use Outlook (I use Google calendars which sync’s with my Blackberry Calendar) you can still get these emails and they will be added to your calendar.

So if you are seeing strange calendar items on your/shared calendar you might need to look for a new spam filtering service.

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Original article on IDT Blog about email spam

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