How do I block spam calendar invitation emails?

Hi all, so after much testing here is what has worked for me...

1. I first went to preferences in iCal on web based iCloud and checked the box saying to email calendar requests.

2. I started out with the pending invite still in my calendar.

3. I did as others suggested and set up a new diary entitled Spam and although I couldn't change the calendar in the spam invite via iCloud on a web browser, I could change it to the spam calendar on my phone (iOS 10.0.2).

3. I then went back to web browser and deleted the spam diary and the invite (greyed out appointment) disappeared.

4. A couple of hours later, I then got a spam invite in my email inbox and marked it as junk and hoorah! It didn't go into my calendar.

Hope it works for you...

What version of iOS do you have?

I have iOS 10.1

I see separate tab for Mail, Contacts, and Calendar

I don't see "Events in Mail (turn off)

I do see "Events Found in Apps"

Try this. Hope it works.

Settings - privacy - advertisements - turn limit ad tracking ON. Then reset your ad identifier. Good luck

I believe Drew's advice is if you log onto iCloud from the internet. I followed his instructions after going to icloud.com and was able to get to where I needed following his advice. But you are right as one version or method of doing the same thing has different steps depending on what platform or OS you are using.

I too started to receive these calendar invites today with the Rayban offering. Apparently this is something which has just recently started and my twitter feed has a lot of mentions about it too. Jim Dalrymple the blogger, podcaster and ex-Apple chap posted a link to this post which I hope is a clarification and solution for all.

https://astralbodi.es/2016/11/25/preventing-spam-icloud-calendar-invites/

Eric

This just started happening to me for the first time. Why is this just now happening after years of no spam. I never even knew spammers could access my calendar anyway. Is there no place safe from them? They are already clogging my phone calls and emails and comment sections on websites I manage!!

How do they even send these things? Are they sending it to some email address that got on a spam list? I looked at my Calendar and the Ray Ban crap was just on one called "Work" which I never use, so I just deleted the whole thing. Maybe that one was imported from my Yahoo ID that I also never use, but gets spam sometime. Hopefully, no more will show up.

Work is one of the default calendars, most people have one, and everybody knows that.

I think I have found a way to block the email address associated with the spam invite. I too like some of you declined the invite before realizing that wasn't the best thing to do. The below steps are what I did to, hopefully, block the email address. I was on my iphone using 10.1.1.

1. Select and copy the address from the invite

2. Create new contact, name it what you want, I named mine rayban spam

3. Add the spam email address to your new contact. Select done

4. Select the phone icon as if you are going to make a call

5. That brings up the contact list

6. Select the new spam contact

7. Scroll to the bottom and click block caller

8. Confirm block caller

I cannot confirm this actually works on email addresses or if it only blocks phone numbers. I guess I will find out since they now know my email address is a live address. But I agree with many of you that having no way of deleting the invite without acknowledging the invite is an oversight on Apple.

I dont have that option in my calendar. settings. Do u mean open icloud account already installed?

The solution is on the apple site. It's easy peasy!

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/258424/spam-icloud-calendar-invitation/ 259750#259750

Yes today an invite to an event has appeared in my calendar , it's everyday for a week, the only option is accept maybe decline. Each one will acknowledge I have had it.

How can a person unknown to me add an entry in my calendar.

How can I remove that entry

It is on my iCloud email and the list of other invitees are iCloud too .

I don't want to leave this on my phone!!!

I believe I have the answer. This has been happening to me also lately. And if you go to settings>calendar>events found in apps> TURN THIS OFF.

It says turning this off will delete any unconfirmed events from appearing in your calendar.

Fingers crossed.

Do not accept or decline - this will encourage more invitations

On your computer create a new calendar

Move the event to the new calendar

Delete the calendar, choosing the option 'do not notify'

Then deselect the 'found in apps calendar' tick box in general calendar settings

In MPC9 reply was correct to safly to stop recieveing such invites

to delete the invite I've done this

Luckily, tech blogs like 9to5Mac were able to find one solution to the spam: creating a new calendar and moving all the unwanted invitations to it, then deleting the calendar.

I found it on

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/25/chinese-spammers-target-apple-icalendar-users-wit h-sketchy-invites-for-black-friday-deals.html

Thanks to both of your for replies, I just have an iPad and iPhone, this entry is linked to my iCloud email which if I'm honest I don't use much, but thought it may be fairly secure linked to apple!!! The entry has put itself into the work diary which I don't use!

I'm concerned about deleting my calendar but I will read your links thank you