Re: [apple-iphone] Calendar spam

 

(catching up with backlogged mail)

>> While reading about the recent New Zealand earthquake on my iPad, I suddenly got a notification of a calendar event for tomorrow. As I have a medical appointment tomorrow, I have looked at the date on the calendar recently, so I KNOW this was not there until just now. It seems to be a commercial spam, and I have deleted it without doing anything else with it.
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>> I am using Fantastical, not Apple Calendar, if that makes any difference.
>> Has anyone heard of an exploit of this sort before?
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> I've used Fantastical for a number of years and have not experienced such an exploit.
>
> Pat

Didn't see an explanation for this. Apologies if I'm repeating something that has already been said.

Fantastical draws its data from Apple Mail's database, or so the genius bar college kid told me. And a recent Apple Mail update started sucking up event dates mentioned in email messages. ALL email messages, including stuff identified as spam and moved into the Junk folder.

Unless you've turned off Mail notifications, iOS sends notifications for these.

Ack! Ptui!

K@
Kat Nagel,
snowed under with 44k unread messages after a week away from my computer

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Posted by: Katherine Noftz Nagel <lists@masterworkconsulting.com>

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