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Why am i receiving spam calendar invites via calendar app?

Dear Apple,

I have no interest in ever receiving any calendar invites from anyone. Now can someone explain to me why the calendar app itself seems to be receiving spam invites for some sunglasses website? These invites are not in my email. Someone apparently found my iphone account info and started sending invites directly to my calendar app somehow. I searched for answers and read a lot of the same ridiculous comments. No i do not want to simply delete this invite or respond that i decline the invitation. I dont want to report to Apple every different icloud address sending out this same spam. I want to block this from happening again at all. Nobody I know uses iphone apps to send me invites and I want my calendars to be personal and private. I do not share calendars. Is there not a way to block invites from happening at all? Is there not a block or decline all function? Complete strangers not even in my contact list should not be able to send messages to my calendar, much less spam me advertisements. Why would you leave our phones open to this kind of abuse? I get more ticked off with every update. I'm about to go buy a samsung galaxy to end all my complaints with this iphone. You have done very little right since ios 6.

iPhone 4S

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 10:14 PM

27 replies

Csound1

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Dec 1, 2016 8:36 PM in response to Efhunter

They are already coming to your email address, but you have opted to send them on to the calendar (the final resting place) They are much easier to deal with if you elect to deal with them there rather than in the calendar. But it's your choice.

By the way they do not have your email address, they know that someone has an email address, so they send random email invitation to thousands of addresses, some of which will happen to be real, yours was amongst them. Regular spammer methods suffice.

Efhunter Author

Level 1

22 points

Dec 1, 2016 9:25 PM in response to Csound1

See now that's the mysterious part. It was that way by default because I had no idea those settings even existed. It seems absurd that an email can be sent straight to the calendar by using my email address without ever hitting my inbox. I just changed to my email today, but the guy was kinda being a ***** asserting his opinion that everyone with a calendar app knew it came from email (without clarifying that the app is pushed invites straight from email). I have had this phone for four years and that calendar app is native. I knew that you could send an invite through email, but I had no idea that an invite could be sent straight to my app or that there was a setting on icloud.com to stop it until today (and the day I posted, I searched and read dozens of threads that didn't make that clear). Those of us who clearly state that we don't share calendars might not know that email spam can go straight to the app. I therefore posit that there exists a subset of calendar app users who, in fact, do not know *** he's talking about. Thanks for clarifying.

Al Hatch

Level 2

235 points

Dec 1, 2016 9:36 PM in response to Efhunter

I, too, was a little perturbed by all the claims that "That is entirely your choice, the option exists at your end…" Then I realized that Csound1 and the others actually do not understand what is going on. So, it's up to us to be nice and just explain it better.

We had no choice, because Apple gave us no choice. With iOS 10 (and the last update of iOS 9.x), Apple suddenly, and without warning, changed the default behavior on our phones. That suddenly enabled calendar SPAM to bypass email and slip through all of our apps that were capable of posting calendar events. In no way is that "your choice". Instead, Apple left it up to all of its users to be startled by this new behavior and go spelunking in their settings to undo what Apple had done. That's a choice?

JCRocky5

Level 1

14 points

Nov 1, 2016 8:40 PM in response to springacres

Yup I declined also, Apple need to fix this pronto, as the **** thing was for ever day for years. I use the Callander app for my own stuff not for other people to spam me.

vasu1008

Level 1

4 points

Nov 3, 2016 7:11 AM in response to Efhunter

I have the same issue after updating to iOS 10.1.1

Please post the solution if any.

DayneTB

Level 1

4 points

Nov 3, 2016 3:10 PM in response to egrason

I have a similar problem, but from 16700700.com 😠

Nov 5, 2016 5:14 AM in response to egrason

Exactly the same for me. I worked with Apple Support to delete the calendar it was on, and I thought the problem was solved. Today I wake up to the same problem, but from 41700700.com. Ugh.

Nov 16, 2016 4:17 AM in response to egrason

Same thing to me. Calendar invites and now notifications for my Reminder app! What next?

Nov 17, 2016 4:38 AM in response to Efhunter

I have the exact same problem, in fact, with the same details: sunglasses, decline or accept. I do not want random people sending me calendar invites. Period. Thoughts?

Nov 19, 2016 2:29 AM in response to Brent_k

Thanks for sharing this - any chance you could tell me how I create a new calendar and copy the spam request in to it?

Nov 25, 2016 6:17 PM in response to Efhunter

Efhunter Author

Level 1

22 points

Dec 1, 2016 8:16 PM in response to Csound1

So in that event they have my icloud email address and the email address sends it to the app bypassing my email inbox completely?

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