Outlook appointments as a trap
Email addresses are verified by rejection - Outlook appointments as a trap. Currently, invitations to fake Outlook appointments are increasingly being sent. Anyone who reacts to this - replies, accepts or rejects - falls into the trap of data collectors who use this method to check whether e-mail addresses are active. There are currently more and more complaints about unwanted Outlook invitations to fake appointments. This is reported by the consumer advice center in Bremen. It is not necessarily obvious at first glance that it is spam. Hacked e-mail accounts are often used for sending and the appointment invitation can even come from one of your real contacts. To-…