Q: Reporting spam to Apple--spam@me.com no longer working

Their help pages are still saying spam@me.com! Try spam@icloud.com and see what happens (and please tell us).

Forwarding to spam@me.com results in an "over quota" bounce from the postmaster; since today for me. I also tried spam@icloud.com, but get the same.

Their Help page:

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

still says the same thing. You could try sending feedback to alert them:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/icloud.html

I'm also getting the "over quota" message when I report spam I've begun receiving from a bogus YouTube site; I never was aware that there was a quota to the amount of spam one can report, so I wonder if there's something embedded in the spam itself that's causing the postmaster to bounce it back.

Same here, over quota message from postmaster@mac.com. Today, basically the same spam came in; same results when sending the message as an attachment to spam@me.com. However, I do have a SpamCop account and both spams were sent and processed there.

Today I tried just Forwarding one spam to spam@me.com with a message about the bouncing and the data derived from SpamCop. That email was not immediately bounced like the Forward as Attachment emails.

Using your approach, I tried forwarding the spam with a note attached, and it was immediately returned as over quota. then I tried sending a simple email with a note about the problem we are having, and it was immediately returned as over quota.

Stan, I presume you 'attached' the note... mine was just the spam email Forwarded with my written comments and the SpamCop data pasted above the spam email contents. No attachment.

So far, an hour and a half later, that email has not bounced back. Still, I'm uncertain whether the email is being read or acted upon.

This Discussion appears to be the only one with our particular issue - spam sent to Apple that is bounced back with an Over Quota error.

Same here - hope Apple sees this and addresses the issue

Yes, I sent the email as an attachment. I just now tried to simply forward the email and it was instantly returned. I think I may be blocked from reporting spam - unless I receive a different but of spam to try.

I also have this issue when fwding msgs from 3 "bogus" YouTube msgs today...but then I just got it on a spam msg from another sender, so it's doens't appear to be sender specific...

It seems the flood of reports have overwhelmed Apple's mailbox or servers.  Note the message says it's the Apple mailbox that's over quota, not yours.

This has been reported to Apple in various forums.  Hopefully, they'll sort this out soon.

I never thought it was my mailbox that was over quota, and it seems difficult to imagine that Apple's server have been overwhelmed. Whatever the cause, as you say, the amount of chatter about this hopefully is attracting someone's attention.

This spam issue is that this has been going on for at least a week or two. Apple still hasn't been able to stop the spam getting through.

I checked spam@icloud.com as well, that's also over quota. We'll see if the chatter grows about this issue.