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Stop spam events landing in Google Calendar with Gemini's step-by-step fix

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Evidence: Described by posterThe person describes what happened in words, without screenshots or video.

Beginner-friendlyNo logins, payments or coding needed. Low risk: paste the prompt and you should get something useful.

Outcome

A poster shared the fix Gemini gave them for spam invites showing up in Google Calendar: change 'Add invitations to my calendar' from everyone to only known senders or only after responding, and turn off automatically adding events from Gmail.

Agent

Gemini

Prompt Recreated prompt

The source didn't share its exact prompt, so we wrote this from what it describes.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Stop unwanted events from being added to my calendar automatically.

Fill in before running:
- Calendar app and device: [e.g. Google Calendar on web]
- What the spam events look like: [DETAILS]

Rules:
- Give the exact settings path for my calendar app, step by step.
- Explain what each setting changes so I don't miss real invites.
- Tell me how to remove the spam events safely without clicking links in them.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.

Output: Numbered steps for the settings change and cleanup.

You'll know it worked when: new spam invites stop appearing and real invites still arrive.
Optional stronger version

Our rewrite with extra checks. The poster didn't test it.

Run this task now, exactly as written below. Everything you need is here, so start straight away and only stop if something required is missing or a rule below tells you to.

Goal: Stop unwanted events from being added to my calendar automatically.

Fill in before running:
- Calendar app and device: [e.g. Google Calendar on web]
- What the spam events look like: [DETAILS]

Rules:
- Give the exact settings path for my calendar app, step by step.
- Explain what each setting changes so I don't miss real invites.
- Tell me how to remove the spam events safely without clicking links in them.
- If a site asks for a login, a CAPTCHA or payment details, stop and hand control back to me.
- Ask for my OK before you pay, book, send, submit or cancel anything.
- Check facts that can change (prices, opening hours, dates, availability, rules) against the official source, and tell me anything you couldn't verify.
- Warn me not to click links or reply to the spam invites, since that confirms my address.

Output: Numbered steps for the settings change and cleanup.

You'll know it worked when: new spam invites stop appearing and real invites still arrive.

Before you finish: re-read my goal and constraints, check your answer against each one, and list anything you assumed or couldn't confirm.

Source

https://x.com/shhhbreslin/status/2105362454683205844

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