Spam Calendar Invite Won't Go Away

JamesVMN wrote:

The struggle I still have is that I can hide my MS Exchange calendar and, sure it goes away, but then so does the rest of my calendar as well. I've tried to search for whoever sent it, only it's nowhere to be found in my Outlook (not spam, junk, etc.) The only source I've been able to find about it was by de-selecting the calendar.

I did take a look and you're right, Microsoft is flooded with these and their only workaround is to create a rule to block them, which doesn't work since a lot of the events showing up aren't even emails. My fear by clicking "decline" is that it only validates my email address. It's really annoying that this is even a thing... any tips to help get rid of it while being able to keep my work calendar on my iCal would be great.

At this time and for the past several months, there has not been a useful solution other than to stop using it. In your case, that is not possible since you need to use the Exchange calendar, where others had just had the calendar option turned on in their Mail settings, but never actually needed it.

Some people claim it comes from junk email and others claim they had not received any junk mail to cause it. Even if you could come up with a mail filter that would work, it does not seem to stop the Spam. Nobody knows if there is a breach in Microsoft servers or if they are even actively trying to fix the problem, since there has been little said about it from Microsoft.

Sorry, but I do not have the answer. If you come across something that works, please include it here as there are many others that would benefit from a solution.

That is been happening frequently with Microsoft Outlook and Hotmails accounts. The Microsoft support communities are flooded with the complaints that are affecting all device platforms.

The solution is to turn off the Calendar sync option on that mail account.