Spam Calendar Invites

This discussion is happening in a number of places, mostly in the iCal forum. Suggestion regarding the Spam iCal adverts masquerading as invites has some thoughts on contacting Apple Support, and on the simplest, yet aggravating, workaround

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?

Now you just need to delete the Junk calendar you created and everything will go with it.

and choose , at the pop-up, "Delete and don't Notify"

Duh! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Thanks so much!

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.

Calendar Spam

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'm confused, how does sending the invites/spam to my email solve the problem?