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I own Apple devices and started getting ray-ban<\/em> and Michael Kors<\/em> ads in early November.  It was a small nuisance which I completely ignored given that I was focused on work and other personal life matters.  However, Black Friday brought many more ads filling up my Calendar events and I wanted to delete them so that I could concentrate on events important to me.  These events are invitations which the recipients is asked to Accept<\/strong>, Maybe<\/strong>, or Decline<\/strong> with no option that lets you delete or hide.  Responding with any of the three options would just let spammers know they have a “live” functioning person to the spamming event invitation and would result in increased spam as that information would be spread to other spammers.  So, I had to figure out how to get rid of the nuisance event invitations without showing my existence.  <\/p>\n

It is possible to deal with using the following three steps in the Calendar application:  (1) Create a Spam folder, (2) turn notification of events in the Spam folder off, (3) move spam event invitations to the Spam folder.  <\/p>\n

Open Calendar<\/strong> application.  <\/p>\n

(1) Create a SPAM<\/strong> folder:<\/p>\n

At the bottom of the Calendar<\/strong> are three options:  Today<\/strong>, Calendars<\/strong>, and Inbox<\/strong>.  The Inbox<\/strong> indicated how many invitation events are available.  Do not go there.  Click the Calendars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The next thing I did was create a new Calendar using the Add Calendar<\/strong> option available through Edit Calendars<\/strong> page, which is the final option presented in the second section of the page, headed with ICLOUD<\/strong>.  To get there, at the top left of the Calendars<\/strong> page which lists all of your Calendars, is an Edit<\/strong> option which invokes the Edit Calendars<\/strong> page.  Scroll past the first section which lists your email Calendars and locate the Add Calendar<\/strong> option at the end of the ICLOUD<\/strong> Calendar section.  <\/p>\n

The Add Calendar<\/strong> screen appears where I entered the word, “SPAM” into the Calendar Name<\/strong> field and then clicked Done<\/strong> at the top right of the screen.<\/p>\n

 The SPAM<\/strong> Calendar now is listed under the ICLOUD<\/strong> section of the Edit Calendars<\/strong> screen.  Click Done<\/strong> (top left of the Edit Calendars screen).<\/p>\n

(2) Turn notification of events in the SPAM<\/strong> folder off:<\/p>\n

The Calendars<\/strong> screen returns.  If a check mark is displayed beside the SPAM<\/strong> calendar, then click it to remove the check mark.  The All iCloud<\/strong> check mark will also be removed if one was there.  This move ensures that events in the SPAM<\/strong> folder will not be displayed to annoy you and you have not done anything to signal to spammers that you exist.  Click Done<\/strong> (top right of the Calendars<\/strong> screen) to return to your calendar.  <\/p>\n

(3) Move spam event invitations to the SPAM<\/strong> folder:<\/p>\n

To move the annoying invitations to the SPAM<\/strong> folder, go to the individual event and click it to invoke the Event Details<\/strong> screen.  The second field of the event is the Calendar<\/strong> which you can change to the SPAM<\/strong> Calendar that you just set up.<\/p>\n

This work-around will help until Apple creates an option to deal with these annoying unexpected event invitations from spammers.  <\/p>\n

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