As soon as I got up and turned on my phone, I received another message from the “hotel tender model”. Family App push notification: “The hotel tender model invites you to share the family “.
This is already the third “invitation” this month!
This month has just started, and I have already received it three times｜Photo courtesy of the author
Seeing this, isn’t the DNA of iPhone users moved! Beginning in 2022, many iPhone users find that they often receive family invitation messages from Macau casinos . This simply made Apple CEO Tim Cook shake his head when he heard it, and Apple users stomped their feet when they saw it.
The Home App is Apple’s smart home control center, where users can operate various smart home accessories, such as remotely turning lights on and off, looking at the camera at the door, and adjusting music.
You can invite others to join your home and control your smart home together. But this invitation feature suddenly became a new channel for criminals to bombard it – they wrote spam directly in the family invitation .
There are also foreign friends, I invite you to earn some digital currency together every day｜u/anyways_but/reddit
In fact, this is not the first Apple’s own app that has turned into a “trash can”. In iMessage text messages, calendars and even photo albums, you will encounter “sexy dealers” unexpectedly.
Apple users, who hasn’t received an invitation from a sexy dealer?
For Apple users who have not received an invitation from a “sexy dealer”, the experience is incomplete (it is not). Once you turned on iMessage, you seemed to be in a Macau casino – a screen full of spam text messages were Macau’s sexy dealers, lottery tickets, slot machines and horse racing.
colorful spam
The unique “characteristic” Emoji typesetting style also penetrates into the hearts of iPhone users. Who wouldn’t want to get a text message like this? 
Burn your phone!
Can’t speak without Emoji? | Photo courtesy of the author
Later, Apple upgraded the information filtering mechanism, and some uneasy users downloaded spam SMS filtering software, and the greetings from Macau gradually became quiet.
But the dealers were not idle, and they proceeded to deal the cards to the calendar app.
Originally, calendar invitations were a convenient tool for scheduling with colleagues and friends. For example, if your friend asks you to meet next week, he can create a reminder in his calendar and invite you to join. When you accept the invitation, the details of the event will automatically sync to your phone.
This brings huge convenience to spammers. As long as you know your email address, it can send you invitations like crazy . Those headlines and content are schedules of ads that fill your calendar like psoriasis ads.
Once a day, be on time than your partner’s Good Morning and Good Night｜discussions.apple.com
Mistakes have also started to appear on the website. When you browse an informal website, you will suddenly receive a pop-up window asking you to subscribe to the calendar. Just click OK. Do you want to continue browsing the web? Then your calendar will be immediately clogged with spam.
In 2016, Apple began to fix the calendar problem, introduced a “report spam invitation” feature, and launched a tutorial for deleting spam events. But this did not completely solve the problem, and many users are still complaining about this problem today.
Even more unexpected is that the army of spam has invaded the album. If you turn on shared albums, you get a bunch of junk messages in the Photos app. And the dealers do the same thing: invite you to my shared album.
On the invitation notice, the criminals filled their names, photo albums, and family names with “lottery tickets, chess and cards, hotel tenders…”, and then sent them in batches. To add an invitation, you only need to know the email address of the other party. If the email address happens to be your Apple ID, you will be lucky enough to receive this spam invitation.
Apple users are really miserable! ｜ Nutshell Colleagues Panax notoginseng
Apple account + sharing function = sharing advertisement
From information to family, why is the dealer still chasing after me, and can always find me? The original sin of all this is to blame on the Apple account and the sharing function !
When you get a new Apple device, you’re bound to encounter a reminder to sign up for an Apple account. Early Apple accounts generally required binding an email address. For many people, only QQ mailboxes may be used in life, and they are filled in easily.
Apple IDs are generally tied to email addresses | apple.com
In the days to come, most people may rarely use this inconspicuous Apple account again, and the usage scenarios will be limited to purchasing paid apps. But in fact, it builds the framework for the convenient experience of the entire Apple service .
Through this account, you can initiate invitations in a variety of software that needs to share information with friends and family. Information, calendars, photo albums, family… Isn’t this the hardest hit area for dealers!
To put it simply, the liar is frantically adding friends in various apps, and directly changing his name and remarks into advertisements .
How to know your apple account number? Maybe when you register for other unreliable websites, you fill in the email address bound to your Apple account. And the QQ mailbox is even worse. The liar directly uses the software to generate random pure numbers, which may include your QQ number…
The leaked Apple account has turned the originally useful built-in sharing function into an “advertising app”.
Want to cure? a little difficult
Apple is actually in charge of so many advertisements, but it is impossible to think that the dealers will take turns dealing cards in different apps .
Apple can identify spam, but it’s not very good to directly prevent people from “adding you”. Apple has gradually added a “report” option to notifications of various invitations. But this is not a cure for the symptoms. Users can only report the harassment after receiving the harassment, instead of directly rejecting the harassment.
If you want to eradicate garbage invitations, you can only wait for the official to come out. However, as a user, it is possible to do it out of sight and out of mind . Here are some suggestions that might help.
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Change Apple account. Spam invitations are generally sent through Apple accounts. If you continue to receive these types of advertisements, your account may be accessed by others. You can register a dedicated email address , which is only used as an Apple account. (It is not recommended to use QQ mailbox, pure digital name mailbox is easy to send spam messages.)
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Close related services. If you don’t usually use these functions , you can turn off related functions in settings and iCloud. For the “family” function that cannot be turned off temporarily, you can directly turn off the notification function of the app and delete the app.
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Click to report and ignore, not reject. When an Apple user “rejects” the invitation, the sender will receive a receipt, so that they know that the account is actively used, which brings more risks. The family invitation of iOS15.5 has been tested, and the “Ignore” button will not be notified to the sender after clicking. For this kind of spam, it is still the priority to click on report and delete .
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Change Android phone (dog head)
Looking at the days, the annual Apple Developer Conference (WWDC) is here again. As an old Apple user, I hope that Apple will bring you more useful functions, and of course I also hope that the dealer can stop chasing me!
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