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Hey everyone - Seth here from Google. I'm sorry to hear this is happening. This post is from November 2017, and we've taken steps to reduce calendar spam. If yo

Hey everyone - Seth here from Google. I'm sorry to hear this is happening. This post is from November 2017, and we've taken steps to reduce calendar spam. If you have specific invitations that came with an email, please forward the entire email to abuse@google.com. If it did not come with an email, please copy the calendar details and a screenshot into an email and send it to abuse@google.com. You can use this form for reporting mail/calendar abuse: https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse https://support.google.com/mail/contact/abuse

rcfox 7y ago
I've received a few myself and hit the spam button on the calendar events. I'd hope you are looking at that bucket too.
- sethvargo 7y ago
  If it comes via email and you do not recognize the sender, please also mark them as spam. If you do recognize the sender, please reach out and encourage them to change their password and revoke any third-party apps they might have authorized to use their account.
  - wyldfire 7y ago
    If I don't see it in my inbox but I do see it in my calendar, does that rule out "came via email"? Or do I need to check spam folder too?
    - swozey 7y ago
      I've never been able to track down an email and if I do it's from calendar@google.com or something along those lines. These are people somehow inviting you directly through an invite and you never get an email. I had this happen about 5 times over the last 2 weeks. I've disabled everything I could in all of my calendars now (including Samsung which I missed). Incredibly frustrating because I can't even BLOCK the person/bot sending this.
      - SCHiM 7y ago
        I got this too! Quite sure my account is not compromised, have 2fa and a keepass password. The invites appear to be sent from my own e-mail address. Is this a separate issue? No third part access to calendar either.
  - TheHypnotist 7y ago
    This requires going into my google calendar, i suppose. I have my iphone calendar synced where there is no such option. Impossible? No. Inconvenient and a pain in the ass? Yes.

rcfox 7y ago

I've received a few myself and hit the spam button on the calendar events. I'd hope you are looking at that bucket too.

sethvargo 7y ago
If it comes via email and you do not recognize the sender, please also mark them as spam. If you do recognize the sender, please reach out and encourage them to change their password and revoke any third-party apps they might have authorized to use their account.
- wyldfire 7y ago
  If I don't see it in my inbox but I do see it in my calendar, does that rule out "came via email"? Or do I need to check spam folder too?
  - swozey 7y ago
    I've never been able to track down an email and if I do it's from calendar@google.com or something along those lines. These are people somehow inviting you directly through an invite and you never get an email. I had this happen about 5 times over the last 2 weeks. I've disabled everything I could in all of my calendars now (including Samsung which I missed). Incredibly frustrating because I can't even BLOCK the person/bot sending this.
    - SCHiM 7y ago
      I got this too! Quite sure my account is not compromised, have 2fa and a keepass password. The invites appear to be sent from my own e-mail address. Is this a separate issue? No third part access to calendar either.
- TheHypnotist 7y ago
  This requires going into my google calendar, i suppose. I have my iphone calendar synced where there is no such option. Impossible? No. Inconvenient and a pain in the ass? Yes.