I’ve started getting some spam invites, sort of a pain but nothing overwhelming. Today I got blasted with thousands of the same invite, for all day, every day going forward for years. Does anyone know how to get rid of all of these? Obviously deleting one at a time or declining is not an option.
Not as bad as I thought, it was one invite repeating daily. But still, this is getting to be a problem. I want to be able to delete spurious invites without declining, thereby confirming my address.
Are you unable to delete the event?
Yes. But Fantastical on the Mac wants to send a decline, which in my mind confirms my email address. Thanks for the link.
Apple Calendar will let you delete an event and all repeats with a Delete All option.
I’ve never tried this but you should be able to:
Subscribe to the same calendar with Apple Calendar, make a backup of the .ics file, close Fantastical, then delete the event using Apple Calendar.
Thanks, I will definitely try this b
These invitations are a menace and becoming more and more common every day.
FYI - In Fantastical, there’s an option (sometimes in the 3 dot menu for an event) that is the poorly named “Respond and don’t notify,” through which you can decline without sending a reply message.
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IIRC there’s an ICS-based vulnerability somewhere that’s triggered if one responds to the invite in any way (even a decline). Once it became known, malicious actors started trying to exploit it.
I’ve been getting similar things but as invites to Google Docs 
Thanks I looked before and missed that option. Interestingly, the Mac app wants to make me respond, but the iOS app lets me delete without responding.
In the Mac app, when I right click an event and choose delete, I get a pop up box. One of the options in that box is “Decline and don’t notify.”
It must be in the settings somewhere.
I’ve been getting both calendar invites and doc invites, though not an unmanageable amount on either front.
The Docs are particularly insidious, though. You might dismiss the email easily, but then the docs will sit around in Google Drive → Shared with me and show up in search results for years to come (unless you go out of your way to delete them in the moment you receive them):
Seems like it will be all too easy to open these accidentally as they accumulate…