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Calendar SPAM

Hey Apple..


Suddenly my calendars are becoming useless. because of repeated spam appointments from folks Ive never heard about.. they want to sell me sunglasses or set me up with a nasty new girlfriend.


if I delete these it will notify them that Im here and they got this address for the next spam..


SO.. now my calendar is full of junk appointments.. = USELESS...


the solution may be to create a contact then delete the contact and zap the appointment in the process, but i just don't have time for this.


SERIOUSLY APPLE.. we need a solution to this.. like yesterday.. please


Bo

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 10.1.1

Posted on Nov 18, 2016 12:15 PM

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Posted on Nov 22, 2016 10:21 AM

This just started for me as well. We need to be able to delete the meeting request with no notice to the sender. This will become a big problem.

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Nov 25, 2016 10:36 PM in response to dansker

I've been getting this garbage over the past week or so, likewise with the sunglasses I wouldn't want even if they weren't fake.


I suggest that we need a setting to only allow invites from those in our contact list, and a quick way to delete the crap without any notice back to the sender. If that deletion system also reported the spam and blocked the address, that would be great. While these spam bots likely change email addresses frequently, enough people reporting them could help trace them down and block their source proactively.

Nov 26, 2016 5:29 PM in response to dansker

I agree! It is extremely disappointing that I can't figure out how to delete this SPAM without Accepting or Declining the invitation. This is SPAM from an unknown sender, attempting to sell me a product. I need a button next to "Accept" and "Decline" that allows me to ignore the message, and preferably a way to block calendar invites from people not in my address book.

Nov 27, 2016 3:13 AM in response to dansker

This has started happening to me as of November 2016. Invites to buy sunglasses and Ugg boots.


Apple DOES need to do something. You cannot seem to label it as spam as with an email. Other sites are saying to iCloud preferences and change the setting - but I don't seem to have this option. I cannot find a preferences setting in iCloud.


How do I stop them coming. They are probably coming from a different email every time.

Nov 28, 2016 10:43 AM in response to coletrane

When I phoned them all they did was take screen shots of the calendar invites, but these spammers change their email every time - so blocking them won't help.


I want an option in my settings is permit specific email addresses to be able to add to my calendar rather than allowing anyone to do that. There are only about 2 people that I personally would want to permit. I can't imagine why people would want open access to their calendar. This would be a fairly simply fix I would have thought. This would block all this calendar spamming.


Get to it Apple !!

Nov 28, 2016 12:04 PM in response to PommyPom

Suggestions above helped me as a temporary fix. I set up the 'spam' calendar on my MacBook, moved the spam to that calendar and then deselected it so it doesn't appear in my calendar. Sometime I will delete it as he suggests but in the meantime, I have a place to put this crap so it doesn't bother me.

I also went into the online Cloud calendar an set it up so that Meeting Requests don't automatically come into my calendar but rather as messages or email. Then I report them as spam.

As I said, it is a temporary solution.

Calendar SPAM

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