{"id":2028,"date":"2025-11-07T19:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T01:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2026-04-10T08:51:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T14:51:30","slug":"spam-calendar-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2028","title":{"rendered":"Spam Calendar Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lately spammers seem to be coopting a feature in Gmail, and other email platforms, where a calendar appointment is automatically entered into a user&#8217;s calendar. To prevent these appointments from automatically appearing through your Gmail account, watch my demonstration to disable this feature or follow the instructions below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2031\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Recording-2025-11-07-at-10_41_49-AM-Small.mov\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2031\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2031\" src=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Recording-2025-11-07-at-10_41_49-AM-Small-mov-image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Recording-2025-11-07-at-10_41_49-AM-Small-mov-image-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screen-Recording-2025-11-07-at-10_41_49-AM-Small-mov-image-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2031\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">How to configure Gmail to only allow appointments from known senders.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Log into your calendar at https:\/\/calendar.google.com<\/li>\n<li>Click the settings icon\/settings menu.<\/li>\n<li>Scroll to &#8220;Event Settings&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Change the contextual menu from &#8220;Add invitations to my calendar \u2013 From everyone&#8221; to &#8220;Only if the sender is known.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I hope this helps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately spammers seem to be coopting a feature in Gmail, and other email platforms, where a calendar appointment is automatically entered into a user&#8217;s calendar. To prevent these appointments from automatically appearing through your Gmail account, watch my demonstration to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/?p=2028\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2160,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/2160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.schwie.com\/brad\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}