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1 Recommended Answer 155 Replies 534 Upvotes Hello,
All of a sudden I got a recurring porn/dating type of event in my calendar.
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I have since long disabled allowing gmail to add events that I have not responded to, etc.
Also, I could not find any email invite for the event in question.
Is there something else I can do?
Looking at the event (see below), can I conclude that it was created from "q2dfsf@dfsdfiusdf3s.iam.gserviceaccount.com" ? Seems like a hacked google service account.
How can they access my calendar and add events? Can I prevent that?
Happy to take any suggestions. I try to be a bit security-aware and the feeling of people accessing my stuff at google is not so nice.
Update: Looking at the related topics, it seems that this is in fact a known issue for years:
- This problem has been known by google for years, it appears. Here is an old report from October 2017 that seems to be about the same problem: https://support.google.com/calendar/forum/AAAAd3GaXpE5kUOfyIaH-I/?hl=en&msgid=X1MYzlccAQAJ&gpf=d/msg/calendar/5kUOfyIaH-I/X1MYzlccAQAJ
- My question is what we as users can do - if anything (except accepting rising volumes of spam coming from the google infrastructure...?) (see same question raised also here: https://support.google.com/calendar/thread/11625810?hl=en
BR! /marcus
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I have show unaccepted invites from gmail ticked off:
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There is more than one change needed in the settings to eliminate this calendar spam:
Event Settings > Automatically Add Invitations, select the option 'No, only show invitations to which I've responded.' And in the View Options, make sure that 'Show declined events' is unchecked.
If you don't absolutely need events created from GMails, then disable that too.
Hopefully Google will soon provide a whitelist for autoaccept...
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Same problem here. I can report it as spam on desktop. But on mobile the invite remains visible and I cannot report spam there.
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I'm having the same issue... And I can't even block the email that sent me those events... Very Annoying!
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Hi All,
If you see the event description mentioned in the screenshot, there is a service running many iterations on the emails. the count mentioned in the above screenshot and mine is different. So there is a possibility that they already have the emails.
I think it is better to change the password of the email account as a first step. when was the last time you changed your Google password?
I got the same kind of event of similar content and similar google cloud service account in my calendar today and immediately deleted the event.
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Aravind
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There is an option in settings under Event settings to automatically add invitations. Set that to only No, add events that I responded.
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Why dose it say i am included in 74 group's?
I have deleted myself from all groups along with deleting my gmail because , someone has been hosting events on my calendar for the past few years .
I never understood why i kept getting invited to some porn group and could not figure out how to make it stop.
I decided i was going to move my YouTube account to a new Google account. After deleting my Gmail and allowing my Microsoft email address become my primary.
All of a sudden i was able to access settings I could not access before.
I immediately deleted and reset the calendar settings that have been doing god only knows what for how long with this Sex Event thing.
I never set that up and have no idea what or why was going on.
I guess my first question is why dose it say am included in 74 groups. ?
Then who is the person name that is listed in blue.
How do i make it say that i have 0 group's?
On my group form page it says that i am not involved in any groups.
Please help me understand what happened and how to make everything secure?
How do i know that i can even trust what ever information given to me here ? 
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