How do I block spam calendar invitation emails?

Clarification: My instructions and screen capture apply to accessing iCloud Calendar's Preferences from your web browser, not from a mobile device or your Mac's desktop calendar app (I don't see the appropriate option offered in either of those places, only on the web browser).

Until Apple comes up with a security fix, at least we should be able to push these spam calendar invites to email instead, mark any incoming emails from these sources as Spam with that email provider, and stop the spammers that way. It's not ideal, but assuming Apple successfully reroutes the iCloud calendar invites to email, dealing with any spammy ones there should be easier than having our calendars littered with junk.

Hope this helps.

This is a big pain. I got spammed with MULTIPLE events. There doesn't seem to be a way to mass delete these events by either sender or title or anything. Plus, I'm not "deleting" them, I'm DECLINING them, which gives the spammer notification that my email is actually active.

I have to delete them one by one. UGH!!!!

Earlier in this thread, I saw an apparent solution. I opened my iCal, went to File and created a new Calendar, similar to my Home/Work/Birthday Calendars. I named the new Calendar SPAM and ticked it not to show. I then dragged and dropped the offending events from my iCal into the SPAM Calendar. I don't think it stops them coming through, as I think that is an issue Apple have to fix, but it gets rid of them from my personal iCal display.

Good luck!

I should add that you can then go to Calendars > Edit > Delete where you will have the option of deleting without notifying. Hey Presto job done!

There are setting on your iphone:

Setting (select)

Mail, Contacts, Calendar (select)

scroll ALL the way down to bottom,

Events Found in Mail (turn off)

Done.

This is no reasonable answer from Apple, they have been aware of this for months, but have not addressed this issue & from what I can see on the Net, have not accepted that there is a problem...

Come on Apple, I would expect better from you!!!

This is the SAME EXACT calendar invites I've been getting. "$19.99 Ray-ban&Oakley In-Store & Online". I've received two or so in the last couple of weeks.

Feedback for Apple: I really wish they would develop a way to block these spam invites (not just in the calendar, but also in Game Center, and MOST IMPORTANTLY... allow iCloud emails to BLOCK specific senders or spam emails.)

This is poor software design by Apple and 100% Apple's fault. Just to be clear, Apple is at fault and Apple is the cause for all spam appearing in calendar events. To allow any spammer to fill calendar events should have never been implemented in the first place. When a calendar event is received and the software does not allow a delete but instead require a response such as declined, that is EXTREMELY bad software design. Anybody who does not think this is poor software design obviously has not received spam calendar events. I am hopeful for the setting described by some people, where we go into the settings and set the events to be received in mail instead of calendar. I don't know if any Apple employee reads these posts, but it would be great if some did and took ownership of their problem.

I have (in 7 years) never received a spam calendar event, It makes me wonder why you get so many.

I woke up to this same problem today, I have no computer around so I can't have the ads sent to my email in order to block them, I deleted three then got this one from am44@qq11.top a few hours later and realized I have to do more than just delete them but I can't seem to be able to block people directly from my calendar. I can also see all the random email addresses that have not "replied" to this "invite".

Yeah mine came from 69qy@f15.xyz

And I agree! This is really poor development on Apple's part!

When using the Calendar app from my Mac, I get the message:

Are you sure you want to decline this event?

If you decline this event, the originator will be notified. You can view declined events by choosing Show Declined Events from the View menu. You can’t undo this action.

Which means I can't delete without actually declining.... :-(

It's important that Apple Support becomes aware very fast of the widespread and serious nature of this loophole. Suggestion regarding the Spam iCal adverts masquerading as invites suggests one approach for achieving this

Where do you find block contact? I don't have that option in my contacts. Are you on your phone or computer? I don't see a place to block contact. If I select edit it only allows me to delete contact.