I did not get an invitation... my problem is that my calendar sends them out
without my knowledge or consent. In one case it even cost me a friendship
since the person thought I had posted her business on the Internet. How can
I opt out of sending invitations? Now I have reverted to just having to put
something like Dinner instead of Dinner with Debbie since the calendar sends
an email for any contact I mention in a calendar event, even sending to the
wrong ones!
Sherrie Gosling
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Doc Wright
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2016 5:30 AM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: A Question About Spam Calendar Event Invitations
not an invitation but I did get a Black Friday reminder yesterday.
----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Taylor" <mk...@ucla.edu>
To: <viphone@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2016 7:45 PM
Subject: A Question About Spam Calendar Event Invitations
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
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