Getting "MICROSOFT SUGGESTIONS" in my Outlook Calendar that appear to be spam

Anonymous
2021-03-21T17:51:29+00:00

For the past couple of weeks I have been receiving "Microsoft Suggestions" in my calendar that span across two weeks in my calendar, that are waiting for me to accept. This actually started on my Outlook on my iPhone on my "Outlook Calendar" and has now started on my Desktop Windows machine.

My iPhone Calendar

 and my Desktop Outlook Calendar

in the iPhone calendar, you can see that almost every day has been infested with these. The Pfizer Vaccine ones do not show the "Microsoft Suggestion" but I assume these are all coming from the same place since they started at the same time and there are 4 listed spanning as one "Event" from March 5th to March 30 I can not delete these OR decline them. The Desktop "Meetings" I can decline but they keep coming back.

Has anyone else been getting these BS items and how can I turn them off completely. I do not share my calendar with anyone nor have I ever received "request" for a meeting until this **** started. I am ok with turning off all invitations for meetings but I cant find a way to do this.

Thank you in advance!

Bob

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-04-07T23:20:13+00:00

    Thank you for that, Diane. My sister has been getting these junk meetings added to her Calendar both on Outlook.com and on the Outlook app on her iPhone. Her calendar is shared with me so I spotted the spam meeting happening once again.  I simply deleted the meeting series a couple of weeks ago. It happened again today and I dug down into the meeting event and see that it was sent by Vivint Home Security, but not as a direct email. Nevertheless, I went into Settings, Mail, Junk Email, Add and added the sender and domain to the blocked list. I also followed your previous screen shot to add a new rule "Delete meeting spam." I ran the rule but that did not delete the event from the Calendar nor did it find any email related to the previously mentioned sender and domain. So somehow, these events enter the Calendar without a directly sent email. I'll keep the group posted to see if this helps.

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  2. Diane Poremsky MVP 17,541 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2021-03-25T19:07:25+00:00

    I checked with support - they are aware of this meeting spam and have blocked it so no new everts should be showing. afaik, the block is in effect now, but they might still be working on it and some may slip through.

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-24T03:38:07+00:00

    Also have this issue, yet i do not have any e-mail messages in my inbox, junk mail or deleted at all from these senders.

    ADT <Email address here> spamming every single day for a month or so now. its annoying, how do you block

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-23T17:38:16+00:00

    I have actually found 2 possible sources of these in my Junk Folder. I actually went into my Junk Settings>Junk Email Options>Options Tab and my email Protection is (and always has been) set to high. Then I went to the International Tab and block ALL the options on both "Blocked Top-Level Domain List" and "Blocked Encodings List" as I get a lot of international Junk Mail. I don't need to receive any International emails so turning them off will not affect me.

    I don't know if the sources I found are the ones that created the Calendar Event but I hope it stops it.

    Now the problem is how do I get rid of the events?  I was able to get rid of them off my Desktop Outlook by "Declining" but I am not able to remove them from my iPhone. Any suggestions? And how does this happen if the email gets sent to the Junk Folder?

    Thanks,
    Bob

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  5. Brian Tillman 27,130 Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2021-03-21T18:45:49+00:00

    Hi. I'm Brian, an Independent Advisor.

    Since events arrive as email, block the sender. I haven't seen these, but I can well imagine they're a nuisance.

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