Spam Calendar Invites

Thank you for this information! I started to do your simpler suggestion, until I realised that this would mean I would get spam in a gmail account, which has up until now remained remarkable free of such; AND it requires two moves to get rid of it! So I did the create-spam-calendar delete-spam-calendar option. I know I may have to keep doing it...

One solution that I found helpful was similar to one of the initial replies on here. But it requires some different steps and it will get rid of any existing spam invites. That is:

Go to iCloud.com > Calendar > Click the spam event > Press delete or backspace.

The spam event should be gone. In order for it to work, you have to make sure that you are doing this via web (www.iCloud.com). Otherwise it will not work.

Note: Should you have more than one spam calendar invite, you have to delete each one individually.

Hope this helps!

I'd say it's more likely Apple's database of usernames has been hacked by Chinese based spammers because they not only determined my email address, it would appear they know my name also a..... Unless the Calendar web app is performing it's own substitution of my full name for the icloud email address?

Also I have the strongest password token that apple will allow.

I'm not sure if they have or not our full name + our email

I believe they only have the email and iCloud is showing us the full name but I hope not to them.

You can see all the other recipients emails but no names. Same here.

The worst is I cannot even see the email of the spammer, why is apple permitting that?!? And yes I have a very strong password recently changed.

Sure enough Apple Has To Fix It , and as I already wrote

why couldn't we have a buddy contact list as we had in ichat?

It would be great, no one can contact you if he's not on your list

Fullstop, no more hassle 😎

Thank you for that!!!

This is the only thing to do it, without notifying the spammers that their spam reached a valid address.

WARNING: Never accept or decline the spam invitations!! Otherwise you'll never get rid of the spam!

Apple urgently should provide a "delete"-function for calendar invitations as for any mail, without notifying the sender!

Apple should urgently provide a mail setting for not autoreply received mails with delivery confirmation option set.

I followed the suggestion to have invites go to email instead of directly to the calendar. Thanks for that. Meanwhile, I now have three spam invites taking up a huge amount of real estate in the upper right corner of my Macbook screen. They are blocking things I need to see, and according to my calendar, they'll be on there at least another three days--one of them for five days! I'm reluctant to close them and give any response to the senders. I've already moved them to a junk calendar, but they still are on my screen. Any ideas about how to get them off my screen?

Is that true? I did the 'delete a calendar' method. I hope that didn't send a 'declined' receipt. Can anyone confirm? As an aside, I also did the second step which was to go to icloud and change settings on invites.) I spoke with Apple Support yesterday and got to a second tier person, but all she had to say was that the engineers are working on it. She needed a screen shot, but I had already deleted the invite via the 'delete calendar' method.

I also noticed that at the same time, an old email address is sending and receiving random emails all in Chinese alphabet. That old email address is not in the cloud, and not connected to my calendar.

In the calendar settings on my phone there's an option to show declined events. I turned it on, and none of those spam invites showed up. So yes, it appears that you can delete the calendar without sending any "declined" receipt. I hope Apple comes up with a fix for this soon.

Apple is aware of the situation, issues an apology to folks, and is working on a resolution -- https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/30/apple-apologizes-for-icloud-calendar-invite-spam- actively-identifying-and-blocking-senders/

Hang tight folks!

Yup, Apple have got in touch with me too and are working on a solution. It'll be in the form of a (hopefully near) future update.

For now the best thing is to make a new Calender, name it "Spam", untick it and place the invites in there.

They're spoofing those email addresses that declined too, so invites are going out in everyone's email address that did so. That doesn't affect your email as it's just variations by their botnet of similar addresses.

If you ARE getting them do contact Apple Support rather than post on here. All the solutions contained above work even if they're not a definite fix. That's on its way!

I am starting to receive spam calendar invitations. This is a complete joke, I cannot believe that Apple have allowed this flaw in their security.

Bottom left side.

Well I'm really lost because when I go to iCloud.com I get this screen, even though it is set up on my phone. So how do I log in to iCloud.com??

Select 'Decline' -- iCloud: Delete or hide an event