It's Not Just You, iCloud Calendar Spam is On the Rise (techcrunch.com)

New submitter petersike writes: If you're using iCloud to sync your calendar across your devices, chances are you just received a bunch of spammy invites over the last few days. Many users are reporting fake events about Black Friday 'deals' coming from Chinese users. If you're looking for cheap Ray-Ban or Louis Vuitton knockoffs, you might find these invites useful. Otherwise, you might be wondering: why is this a thing? If you use your calendar for work, you already rely on calendar invites to invite other people to meetings and events. All major calendar backends support this feature -- Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange and Apple's iCloud. And it's quite a convenient feature as you only need to enter an email address to send these invitations. You don't need to be in the same company or even in your recipient's address book. But it's also yet another inbox -- and like every inbox out there, it can get abused.

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Just FYI, here is how you stop it....

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Log in to icloud through the web browser.
Go to the Calendar app
Once in, click the settings cog on left bottom corner
Click on preferences
In advanced at the very bottom select the email invites radio instead of the invites go to app radio

Done.