By Elinor Mills
Tuesday, July 01 2008 11:46 AM
URL: http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/security/0,39044215,62043315,00.htm

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 are 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 said, complete with grammatical and spelling mistakes that can tip people off to phishing attempts.

A Google Talk Guide mentioned in a May 28 Google Groups thread about the phishing attempt that users should click the "Report Phishing" link if they receive any suspicious e-mail messages, and not click on links or open attachments.

Google representatives did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on Monday.

This article was first published as a blog on CNET News.com.