Q: SPAM level increased last 2-3 weeks

I can't provide much in the way of addressing iCloud spam, but I do have some experience with the problem.

Apple's spam "filtering" has been atrocious since iCloud came out.  I too have been receiving the same sort of junk messages, the domain usually being "mail@e.*.com," where the wildcard is a random string of words.  After forwarding hundreds of messages to spam@me.com, hearing every time that Apple takes spam violations "very seriously," and then receiving identical junk mail day after day, I'm convinced that Apple has no interest in curbing the spam problem.  The format and HTML of these spam messages is the same every time, which shouldn't be hard to block with a good algorithm.  A blogger has been tracking these messages here, when they first appeared, along with full DNS and registrar info, and I've even forwarded the address to Apple... yet they've done absolutely nothing to address the problem.

Several weeks ago I called Apple support to see if they could offer any help.  The service rep seemed willing to help and even more eager after I provided the above link.  He put me on hold and talked to his supervisor about the issue.  After several minutes, he returned to tell me that Apple doesn't control the spam filtering or the email service, and there's nothing he or anyone else can do.  I just have to live with it.  Really!  Then he explained how to add mail rules, which are useless because the spammer's domain changes several times a day.  Isn't Apple's new datacenter supposed to run iCloud?  Are they really outsourcing this stuff?

I don't mean to sound jaded, but my trust in Apple has dwindled in light of their awful iCloud support, among other antics (patent stupidity, for one).  I don't know how they can claim to compete with cloud services if they aren't willing to listen to their users and implement one of the most basic features, decent spam filtering.  How many thousands of messages does it really take?

I forwarded all my SPAM to Apple, and have not seen much lately. I think I've only had one SPAM email in the past month.

how do you do that; to what apple address?

Dude you gotta learn to use google.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4019

My spam has tailed off now. Maybe Apple fixed the issue....

The iPhone app "Mail" needs to have exactly the same feature(s) that Mac OS X Mail has

in relation to spam-filtering.

Namely: if the user does not exist in my contacts book, redirect the mail to the Junk folder.

It's as simple as that.

For the app not to have the same feature at this late date is truly remarkable.

Hasn't been fixed for me - so much time wasted in checking what turns out to be SPAM - in my case these glytches started only a few weeks ago, making me wonder if Apple couldn't go back to its previous system (I'm using Lion 10.7.4 & 5, & am increasingly frustrated).  C'mon, guys.

Same problem here. A ton of spam completely undetected, and it's getting worse in the past few days. Hope they find way to fix this.

I am seeing an unusual spike of the same kind of email that prompted finding this post.  I don't know if it is a iCloud mail issue or if my email was just on a list that just got resold again?

After years of nearly ZERO spams, the floodgates have opened over the last week.  Dozens daily!

I'm getting slammed right now. It's horrible. I hate my me.com account for the first time ever. Honestly thinking about switching to GMAIL. And that is just the first step to an entirely different ecosystem.

None all day. Then about 15 minutes ago they came all at once. 23. It's like it saves them up, they turn off the spam protector and BOOM. They hit my inbox. Grrrrrr

Ditto to the above comments from 1/3.  Just got about ten spam messages in the last fifteen minutes.  What I don't understand is why Apple's filters can't block mail that LOOKS like these junk messages.  From this particular spammer, the message format never changes and consists of the same couple images and identical lines of text.  Surely their algorithms can figure that out, right?