I unfortunately did press on the "Decline" button and now wished I hadn't. I haven't had any increase in spam mail or anything, and I only had spam calendar events for about 3 to 4 days, then they stopped altogether.
I heard that you could go to iCloud.com, sign in and change the setting to receive calendar invites as e-mails instead of in-app notifications, but when trying to use the website, could not find the settings button and gave up. I never thought of using my Windows machine as I to have the iCloud for Windows installed. Hopefully nothing bad will happen from my stupidly declining these events and letting these spammers find out my e-mail. Thanks for the tip! From: Robert Doc Wright <yeshua.talmi...@gmail.com> To: <viphone@googlegroups.com> Date: 2016/12/07 2:57 AM Subject: Re: A Question About Spam Calendar Event Invitations I found a dismiss button in the calendar app ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Carol Pearson' via VIPhone To: viphone@googlegroups.com Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 4:00 PM Subject: Re: A Question About Spam Calendar Event Invitations Yes, I received a similar one this week. I did what you did! I simply went to my PC and deleted it for ever and ever and ever! I haven't checked whether it got to my calendar yet, so I must do this. I can't even remember what it was now. I know that I recognise it though if I find it! :-) Carol P - Sent from my iPhone :) On 26 Nov 2016, at 2:45 am, M. Taylor <mk...@ucla.edu> wrote: Hello Everyone, Just so you know, I am cross-posting this email. Earlier today, I received a calendar sales event invitation from an unknown sender. Upon opening the invitation from within my iOS Calendar app, it was clear that this was a spammer as I could see the list of invitees all of which were just variations on a theme, for example b...@icloud.com, b...@icloud.com, etc. The event invitation was promoting a weekend sale for sunglasses and the like. As a result, the event appeared across three different days, corresponding to the length of the event/sale; extremely annoying, to say the least. The only buttons I could find upon which to act was either Accept button, the maybe button, and the decline button. I did not want to activate any of these buttons as doing so would send a response to the sender, confirming the existence of my account. Try as I may, I could not discover anyway to simply delete the event invitation, itself, or the corresponding events from my Calendar, in iOS. Just so you know, When I activated the button that linked to the sender, whose account/email address consisted of Chinese characters, all I could do was to either add the sender to my Contacts List, share my location, etc. There was no option to block the sender nor anyway to report the event invitation as spam. Believe it or not, the most annoying thing, however, was not that the event was added to my Calendar, for the duration of the event, it was that it showed as an event to which I needed to reply. This means that the number 1 was constantly displayed on the Calendar's badge-app, icon. I called Apple Care but, after waiting on hold for what seemed like an interminable length of time, I decided to go it alone. At first, I thought about firing up my Mac and seeing if I could discover a way to delete the event from there. However, to be honest, my luck with the Mac OS Calendar application, has never been spectacular. Add to that, the fact that I was extremely angry at Apple for not providing some way to delete an event invitation without having to select an option that would alert the sender that any action on my part, had taken place. My solution? I simply fired up a Windows 7 PC that has the iCloud Control Panel for Windows installed, launched Microsoft Outlook 2007, located the offending invitation, and hit the delete key on the keyboard. Not including booting up the PC and launching Outlook, the deletion process took less than 10 seconds. When next I looked at my iOS Calendar, the invitation, along with its corresponding footprint, had been deleted, as expected. Question: Have any of you encountered spam Calendar event invitations? If so, how did you handle it? Were you able to delete the invitation without activating the Accept, Maybe, or Decline buttons? The only thing I wish I had attempted, before resorting to my beloved Windows PC, was to have explored the iCloud.com website to see if, perhaps there may have been a delete button somewhere that would have accomplished my goal. I look forward to your replies, Mark -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. 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