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I haven't seen this before and started getting events being automatically added to my Gmail calendar without receiving any associated emails that contain them.

Screenshots here https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wrb0f1du6gbpcw/Screenshot%202016-11-25%2016.27.21.png?dl=0 and https://www.dropbox.com/s/syc0ivruqmo3ifg/File%20Nov%2025%2C%204%2030%2000%20PM.png?dl=0.

Calendar item details here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0f22kbxjlgje5d8/File%20Nov%2025%2C%204%2034%2043%20PM.png?dl=0

I'm on macOS Sierra and iOS.

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I've gotten this too. Google iCloud calendar spam. I'm guessing your Gmail calendar is linked to your Apple calendar and it's being updated that way.

Yeah it is. I'm trying to figure out if a particular app might be doing this or if there's a hole in the Apple or Gmail calendar protocols.

Found this https://plus.google.com/+RonnieBincer/posts/ec3aZmhNMwg.

Apparently not a new issue.

Edit:

I guess this isn't a new thing but is the first time I've ever seen it. You can change a setting in the Gmail calendar not to automatically accept calendar invites: https://plus.google.com/+RonnieBincer/posts/ec3aZmhNMwg

I'm getting mine thru iCloud.

Pity there's no way to just delete an event in Calendar, without accepting/declining. Both of those send a notification to the sender.

If you create a dummy calendar, you can move the event into it and then delete the calendar as a whole, which doesn't send responses to the originator.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/technology/personaltech...

I just started getting these as well! For Ray-Ban sunglasses and other nonsense. Happened while I was coding, it's VERY distracting to see event invites pop up. I've disabled calendar syncing to my phone from my gmail for now.

Yep, I got the rayban one yesterday.

Yes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5etop4/calendar_even...

OSXDaily has an article about it too. seems they've been getting a bunch. almost all of them 'ray ban' and 'oakley' and random chinese characters.

http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/26/icloud-calendar-spam-invite-s...

spam email is annoying enough. but something like this? ugh.

Same here, just noticed today. The iCal event was sent to a bunch of permutations of my email address

I've been getting Photos sharing albums spam. Someone sends me requests to accept a shared album and the title of the album is in chinese. Happened twice already.

There are settings in most mail and calendar apps to disable auto-adding events from email to your calendar if you don't explicitly accept the invitation.

I recently got spam that looked very similar, through a shared iPhoto album invitation. Seems some spammer have gotten quite inventive recently.

I just got an alert like this yesterday, did not understand what it was until I saw this.

Me too. Ray-Ban ads confirmed

Same thing here. From msyeui.

Yep, sunglasses ads

yeah, i got it on my iCloud account a couple weeks back.

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