How can I delete an iCal event without notifying the sender?

I am on a mac using MacOS Sierra 10.12.1. The option to delete without notifying is there.

I just received what appears to be a spam invite. I have the option to either close or accept it.

What does this do if I accept it? Does this somehow give the spammer some level of access to my calendar? Is it safe to accept it and then just delete it from my calendar?

Thanks.

Thank you for clarifying that you have to delete the new calendar created after moving the spam event to it, not delete the event. The original suggested workaround didn't make that clear. I was trying unsuccessfully to move the spam event to a new calendar then delete the event. That didn't work but deleting the new calendar did and it is a great workaround.

Thanks Michael, this worked for me also.

It worked THANK YOU Michael.

I received 2 today, 1 last week, and the list goes on and on. I mistaking lay clicked decline and now I'm afraid my account is going to be compromised. I wish Apple would jump on this and patch it already. I'm sick of feeling insecure about my data.

Absolutely. It's shocking that Apple seem so uninterested in this issue, leaving it to their customers to devise workarounds (create new calendar, transfer spam to it, delete new calendar) instead of dealing with a gaping hole in account security. An Apple online chat person blithely told me to simply decline the event, terrible complacent advice. Report to Apple abuse, hassle them and keep up the pressure until they do something about this!

Here's the best way I found to prevent new calendar spam. From an earlier thread.

Here's the article.

https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/09/icloud-photo-sharing-and-calendar-spam/

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There is a slightly easier way to stop the non-email associated spam calendar events showing up. i.e. the ones that just appear in your calendar like magic.

Just log in to iCloud.com open your calendar. Then under the calendars settings (cog icon lower left of the screen), select the Preferences entry and then the Advanced tab. You'll likely notice that your Invitations setting is defaulted to in-app notifications. Change that to email and it'll prevent future invites automatically appear solely in your calendar (you'll get it as an email that is easier to delete without confirming a live account). This has stopped the calendar ones appearing for me…

I figure if you can't beat them, join them and annoy the Apple execs directly. I just looked up a few execs' names and made a nice little calendar invite of my own. Hopefully it'll get the message through that this is a serious exploit and needs to be addressed faster than what is happening currently.

Worked like a charm. Thanks!

This was greatly helpful with the step by step advice. It's awful that we have to go through such an awkward procedure.

Started to receive these invites, only had a couple over the last few days. But they are still annoying. Come on Apple you need a fix for this.

Reporting abuse may or may not work. I've been doing that for about a year to the email abuse@icloud.com not sure if it gets solved. Definitely see where you're coming from with the hussle and bustle of your work life and then that garbage pops up and confuses you, and you have to waste time to make sure you're protected when you spent god knows how much on the device thinking you already were

Awesome! T

Yes, the work-around solved the problem. But this has been a well-documented problem for some time, and Apple responded by ...... doing nothing, it turns out. Apple is becoming less responsive and more out of touch by the month. The person at Apple in charge of user-reported iCal problems -- if there is such a person -- is probably surfing in Hawaii for a few weeks. As Apple tunes out, I'm finding better software elsewhere. In the last few months, I've replaced iTunes with Spotify and Apple Photos with Google Photos and Snapseed. I'm now looking for a reliable calendar app to replace iCal. We're now seeing "Apple the Behemoth," and it's not pretty.