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first calendar now photos invitation spam

I have gotten a couple of spam calendar invites in the past two weeks. I was careful to follow the protocol for deleting them without sending a reply back to the sender (create a new calendar named "junk" or whatever, move the invitation to that calendar, delete that calendar and when asked decline to send reply for invites).


Now I just got a spam invitation in Photos so share photos.


Is there a way to deal with this without having any comfirmation/reply being sent back to the sender?


Is there some way to block all of this kind of spam?


Thanks,


Dave

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Nov 4, 2016 8:11 AM

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Posted on Nov 4, 2016 9:49 AM

Now I just got a spam invitation in Photos so share photos.

Why do you think this is spam? Usually it's someone who knows you and is wanting to share some photos with you. If you don't wan't to see the shared photos just delete the email that you got and forget it.

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Nov 26, 2016 8:05 PM in response to AprillF

Ahh. In a later post you (AprillF) note that you are on an iPhone. That explains why in Calendar on my Mac I do not see the "i" for info that you report. I do see these things, just in other places.


In Calendars on a Mac, the Calendars are listed on the left side of the window. Just to the right of each name will be either a blank space or a "Sharing icon" indicating the calendar is shared.

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Clicking on the Sharing icon opens a window with data on how that calendar is shared. If someone else shared that calendar to you, it gives that name of the person who originated the calendar. If you created the calendar, it lists addresses to which it was shared, and tells if the recipient has full access, or View Only. It also has a box which if checked allows the calendar to be a "Public Calendar" which allows anyone who has the URL read-only access, I think that if the calendar is not a Public Calendar it will not be susceptible to the spam.


The reason I think this is my Calendar has many calendars. Most are shared with specific people, and are not Public Calendars. None of these received any spam. Two of my calendars did receive the spam. One I had made a Public Calendar because it was shared with a person through a HotMail address. My guess is that access to private calendars is restricted to those with iCloud accounts, as access to shared Photos libraries is restricted. They probably are protected from invitation spam. My other calendar which received spam was created by my wife in her separate user space, and shared to me. I guessed that her original calendar was not a Public Calendar. We looked on her computer and found that it was not a Public Calendar.


I thought in might be that Public Calendars were susceptible to spam, while private calendars were not, but these facts are not clear.


Can others who received spam tell us if your spammed calendars were public or private?

Nov 26, 2016 8:26 PM in response to Tom Ritch

I thought in might be that Public Calendars were susceptible to spam, while private calendars were not, but these facts are not clear.


Can others who received spam tell us if your spammed calendars were public or private?

I got spam in a private calendar. Actually, I have no public calendars at all, and I still received spam. (I've since gone through the iCloud preferences so I should no longer receive it.)

Nov 26, 2016 8:28 PM in response to Tom Ritch

I forgot to add one more observation.


One calendar where I received the ray-ban spam was created by my wife and shared to me. I tried to drag the unwanted ray-ban event from that candor to my junk calendar. That did not work. Instead of moving, it copied the event. I opened the Info window and tried to select a different calendar to contain the event. My junk calendar was not available.


The problem was that I can only move events between calendars that I own. In this case i was necessary for my wife to remove the spam from her Calendar.

Dec 12, 2016 9:15 AM in response to DaveAZ

Apple is dealing with this issue. As of December 11, invitations received in iCloud Calendar an be marked as spam. Presumably Apple will use spam reports to build a database of spammer addresses, which will be blocked.


Note that at this time the option to report spam is present only in Calendar in iCloud, not in iCloud on your Mac or iPhone.


This fix was reported in Apple Insider. "Apple activates iCloud.com Calendar spam reporting feature"

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/12/12/apple-activates-icloudcom-calendar-spa m-reporting-feature

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