Notification in calendar: Won iPhone Xs Max

Of course it is. Name one legitimate company offering a prize that tells people about it with an unsolicited calendar invite for a contest you never entered and know nothing about?

It brings me to a website error screen saying that the server I'm trying to reach is down lol the website is something like "Sweet Prizes Today" seems like there was some sort of scam bot that breached the Gmail calender for a bunch of us

Did you delete the previous event? Or decline it? I had the same thing, but I had deleted the event -- and it happened again the 2nd time I deleted them. The third time I declined, and changed the setting (as the mashable article I mentioned previously suggests), so it doesn't show declined events, and they disappeared, and haven't come back.

I just had FIVE of these spam calendars entries appear in my Google calendar over the weekend! Each spanned two days within August 2019:

>23rd - 24th

>24th - 25th

>25th - 26th

>26th - 27th

>27th - 28th

Not impressed. I've followed the instructions to no longer show invites that haven't been accepted, as well as to not show invites that have been declined. I also flagged each entry as spam, but was annoyed that I wasn't able to flag the entry as spam within the calendar apps that I use (Apple's default calendar app and also 'Calendars'), and instead had to log into my Google calendar via a web browser.

FYI -- It looks like mashable (and probably every other tech news site around) reported on this around June 17th this year: https://mashable.com/article/google-calendar-scam/

That includes the same instructions I gave for disabling the automatic inclusion of these invitations in your calendar.

And I use an Android.. so, yes.. it is Google. Has nothing to do with Apple

I too had this reminder appear in my calendar to claim the apple iPhone Xs that I've won. It has to be a scam since it's too good to be true!

Me too. I changed the settings in my desktop Google GMAIL calendar settings assuming that they are "carried over" into the Android Google calendar app... because the app on my phone does not have those settings.. or at least I can't find them there.

got the same thing. yes. obviously a scam. but how does it appear on my google calendar is what I want to know..

I got this too. It began with a fake text a contact received, asking them to forward to their contacts. Immediately started getting notifications that I had won an iPhone, linked to Google Calendar.

Just started getting tons of them last night and the emails are weird also because the from is my own iCloud email and the to is my gmail. So don't understand this, but just made the Google Calendar change that was shown on page 1 in the link, so will see if I get anymore. This has been a nightmare are tho...

Me too. Though since it's happening to so many of us all at the same time it seems reasonable to assume that our privacy has not been compromised and that Gmail was the one that was exploited

I have google calendar and got this as well.

That's weird, that just happened to me too. It surprised me that your post was made today lol sounds like lots of people received the notification. I have an Android phone and it looks like the next five days in my calendar have a notification for "winning a free iPhone XS" that appeared out of nowhere. Why would so many people receive it? Did you receive the notification on iPhone, or an Android like me?