Suggestion regarding the Spam iCal adverts masquerading as invites

It's because too much time has elapsed since posting, 15 minutes is the time allowed, more than that and it is permanent.

I too have recently been experiencing this issue. The answer seems to be is turn off iCal notifications, not a good choice if you rely on iCal every day! This bothersome avenue of spam is becoming a problem and Apple should have enough respect for their loyal customers and fix this issue now. I too read the workaround, do I need to do this with each and every message? Please fix this Apple, some of us try to earn a living using Apple products for what they were intended, creating.

Another option might be for Apple to add to iCal the option of segregating invites from people you don't know, in the same way you can have Messages split incoming texts under 'Contacts & SMS' and 'Unknown Senders'. Then in iCal, have the option of not being notified about appointments from unknown senders. Or finesse that option by allowing through senders from domains in your contact book but from senders you don't know (eg a client's colleague).

I totally agree. The same way you can block a text is the same way you would be able to block unwanted invites. Or maybe an option to report as spam.

Besides the risk of informing of the decline invitation, thus the activity of the account, I don't know if there is any Hack that can enter my computer or if my information is at risk ?

Your information is not at risk

we need an option to make invitations available only to our contacts/friends

Or at least have a blocking option , and a global list of spammers

Twiter worked for getting the message across ! Thanks !

Please direct Apple Support Engineers to the multiple articles on tech sites that have screen shots and work arounds up the wazoo. That's ridiculous they want you to do all of that work when it's so readily available via a simple Google search. I wouldn't do their job for them and I imagine you have better things to do with your time! 😉

Thanks - I tweeted my concern to Apple, but had deleted so no screen shots, so far! So thankful for the forums.

The screenshots were the only specific need mentioned in this thread so if that's what they're after they exist in abundance within those articles. Reproducing what already exists doesn't seem like a productive use of anyone's time, but you can do what you want since it's your time to begin with. I would be reluctant to jump through those hoops though, because they must have tons of internal staff members who are also getting these unsolicited calendar invites to reference their eventual solution on. If you follow through with what they want though, thanks in advance from all of us.

Well I did that, but not sure what is gained? Now the crap will be in my email?