Spam Calendar Invites

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??

Just found out a little fix - not perm I'm guessing: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/technology/personaltech/fighting-ios-calendar- spam.html

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!

You're making a big assumption that the users Apple account has been compromised.

I'm getting these too, to an Apple email account I never, ever use. 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 and that can't be determined by a random generator to match a random email attempt. See screenshot. 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. There is zero indication my Apple account has been compromised.

Seem like I have to reply to my own comment to have this webpage generate a timestamp link I can use to hyperlink to my post to include in Apple Feedback. How uniquely Apple and think different.

We don't care who's doing it or how. We'd just like Apple's help on preventing it.

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!

Perfect!

Yes, but note that even when you move it to another calendar and delete that calendar, the contact still shows up when you go to send out an invite to a calendar event.

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.

Thanks very much for the 'spam calendar' suggestion. It appears to have worked, for now. How intensely annoying, though. Sent feedback to Apple, hopefully it will spur some action.