Hello Mark, I also got the very same calendar invitation. After googling it, I found an article posted in the New York Times with a couple of work arounds. Hopefully Apple will address this in a future update. I did the suggestion in the New York Times and it worked without a problem. Here is the link to the article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/technology/personaltech/fighting-ios-calendar-spam.html?_r=0&referer=https://www.google.com/
Chris > On Nov 25, 2016, at 9:45 PM, 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. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at caraqu...@caraquinn.com > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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