Spam Calendar Invites from my iCloud Address?

I have an iCloud email account, and a Gmail account. Today when I booted up my Mac I received about 20 Spam calendar invites to pickup an iPhone XS Max I've supposedly won...yeah right, nice try scammers. In Calendar on MacOS they appear to be from random email addresses, but, in Apple Mail, and logging into my gmail, it appears that they were forwarded from my iCloud address to each of my Gmails? Malware, or just the way Calendar/iCloud handles the invites? I use 2 Factor login for iCloud.

MacBook Pro with Touch Bar

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 3:50 AM

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Aug 30, 2019 4:46 PM in response to ACPLE

I believe I've figured this out. This is the well known Gcal spam, but in my case, at least, and I assume in yours, the Google calendar is linked to Calendar.app (formerly iCal) on your Mac. That means that an email alarm from Calendar when the Gcal spam is added sends an email from your primary email account using Apple Mail (or, more specifically, MailServiceAgent). No hacking. Just unfortunate behavior. It's also, fortunately, why it only goes to your own Gmail account.

Aug 27, 2019 8:59 AM in response to ACPLE

See this article https://support.apple.com/kb/PH26234?locale=en_US

The spam calendar is viewed in gmail account because the gmail address and password is same as your Apple ID address and password , in system preferences > iCloud the Apple ID is signed in , and the web mail address is synced with iCloud server , so if a spam calendar invitation comes to iCloud .com ( Mac and iPhone are signed in with same Apple ID and password on the same network and synced ) and they will definitely shown in the devices .

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