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

I had been reporting spam to spam@me.com and to spam@uce.gov. I would forward the message as an attachment, but now the ones to spam@me.com are bouncing. Is there a new spam reporting address for Apple now that they have switched to icloud?

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Imovie '11

Posted on Sep 18, 2012 2:38 PM

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  • by dmcosta000,

    dmcosta000 dmcosta000 Nov 24, 2012 5:31 PM in response to InspiredReflections
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    Nov 24, 2012 5:31 PM in response to InspiredReflections

    been having this same issue for several days now, a few went thorugh, but most are being bounced. Do they have new way to do this?

  • by Stan Fisher,

    Stan Fisher Stan Fisher Nov 25, 2012 5:25 AM in response to dmcosta000
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    Nov 25, 2012 5:25 AM in response to dmcosta000

    From Apple Help for reporting spam, the "forward as attachment" still applies, but it's also noted that if the email is marked as junk, it's also reported to Apple. I received another bogus YouTube email this morning - my inability to report spam seems to coincide with the receipt of the first of these - and my attempt to forward it failed.

  • by Stan Fisher,

    Stan Fisher Stan Fisher Nov 25, 2012 1:23 PM in response to Stan Fisher
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    Nov 25, 2012 1:23 PM in response to Stan Fisher

    I have just received another bogus YouTube email (this one had a Russian address) and was finally able to forward it to spam@me.com without the postmaster going into "over quota" hysteria.

  • by bjay25,

    bjay25 bjay25 Nov 25, 2012 3:02 PM in response to Stan Fisher
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    Nov 25, 2012 3:02 PM in response to Stan Fisher

    Stan, me too. After seeing your message I tried sending the two spams that did not go through days ago and received the welcomed Greetings from Apple that they received the spam. Maybe Apple was over quota from the volume. Who knows, but it's working now... thanks for the persistence.

  • by Rick Ternosky,

    Rick Ternosky Rick Ternosky Nov 25, 2012 8:03 PM in response to bjay25
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    Nov 25, 2012 8:03 PM in response to bjay25

    I too have now been able to send msgs (the bogus YouTube msgs and others) to Spam and not get a delivey failure notifucation.  BUT... I haven't gotten the usual 1st Confirmation msg...are others still getting that msg?

  • by bjay25,

    bjay25 bjay25 Nov 26, 2012 6:33 AM in response to Rick Ternosky
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    Nov 26, 2012 6:33 AM in response to Rick Ternosky

    Rick, I received email replies from Apple that my spam emails were received.

  • by Stan Fisher,

    Stan Fisher Stan Fisher Nov 27, 2012 10:15 AM in response to bjay25
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    Nov 27, 2012 10:15 AM in response to bjay25

    The bogus YouTube spam keeps trickling in, but it's great to be able to send it to Apple - thanks for the cyber repair, whoever did it.

  • by Rick Ternosky,

    Rick Ternosky Rick Ternosky Nov 27, 2012 11:10 AM in response to bjay25
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    Nov 27, 2012 11:10 AM in response to bjay25

    Latest YouTube spam fwd'd today...but no confirmation email from Apple...

  • by Stan Fisher,

    Stan Fisher Stan Fisher Nov 27, 2012 11:46 AM in response to Rick Ternosky
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    Nov 27, 2012 11:46 AM in response to Rick Ternosky

    I have not received a confirmation either (ironically, it always annoyed me, after forwarding spam as an attachment to them, that they would immediately send a message acknowledging receipt - and with the instruction that spam should be forwarded as an attachment) but unlike the past two weeks, the forwards seem to be going through. Or at least they don't bounce off the postmaster as before.

  • by Pondini,

    Pondini Pondini Nov 27, 2012 11:50 AM in response to Stan Fisher
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    Nov 27, 2012 11:50 AM in response to Stan Fisher

    Same here.

     

    I wouldn't be at all surprised if Apple has suspended the confirmations (temporarily or not), due to what must be an enormous flood of (bogus) YouTube spam.

  • by pgonzalez,

    pgonzalez pgonzalez Nov 27, 2012 9:45 PM in response to Pondini
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    Nov 27, 2012 9:45 PM in response to Pondini

    Finally got a response, a new auto-response this time from the iCloud postmaster, when forwarding off some spam.. the same youtube and other crap we've all been recently getting.

     

    Just before all this the auto-repsonse was from the MobileMe postmaster.. ;_)

  • by Rick Ternosky,

    Rick Ternosky Rick Ternosky Nov 29, 2012 10:21 AM in response to pgonzalez
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    Nov 29, 2012 10:21 AM in response to pgonzalez

    It does appear all spam fwd's are now getting "accepted" at Apple, from several different spam sources...so that's great. But stll not getting any Conf msgs...which I too kinda don't mind as they are a little unnecessary.  Just commenting now for sake of this discussion.

  • by Cinemagic,

    Cinemagic Cinemagic Apr 10, 2013 9:35 AM in response to InspiredReflections
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    Apr 10, 2013 9:35 AM in response to InspiredReflections

    Unfortunately, it seem that reporting spam has no effect. I have reported spam from the same address, a Spanish spammer, for several months and continue getting the same spam from the same spammer.

  • by bjay25,

    bjay25 bjay25 Apr 11, 2013 6:03 AM in response to Cinemagic
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    Apr 11, 2013 6:03 AM in response to Cinemagic

    Cinemagic,

    For me, at least, the few spammers I "acquired" on my Apple acccount did get stopped using the Apple reporting. I also used www.spamcop.com at the same time so I'm unsure which service performed for me. On an ISP service email account I have one very old email address that only had spam delivered to it. It took two years using Spamcop to finally rid that address of spam. There is hope, with patience. Good Luck.

  • by simsboynton,

    simsboynton simsboynton Jun 9, 2013 6:28 PM in response to InspiredReflections
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    Jun 9, 2013 6:28 PM in response to InspiredReflections

    I am answering this question because I’ve received so many spoof/spam messages lately to my email address(es) at me.com.

     

    I decided to find out how to report them.

    Here’s what I found out:

     

    Suspicious email messages can be forwarded to one of the following;

     

     

    Make sure to include the long header.

    Long headers can be displayed using the menubar (see below)

    __email-long-header-navigation.jpg

     

     

    Then either copy & paste the long header or simply forward the entire message.

    Example of long header from a suspicious email:

    From:   Kikki Howard <noreply@hakahakajkfbczj.googlemoogl.tk>

      Subject:   Kiss to you

      Date:   June 9, 2013 4:21:21 PM PDT

      To:   xxxxx@me.com

      Return-Path:   <noreply@hakahakajkfbczj.googlemoogl.tk>

      Received:   from nk11p00mm-smtpin004.mac.com ([xx.xxx.xxx.xxx]) by ms04574.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-26.01(7.0.4.26.0) 64bit (built Jul 13 2012)) with ESMTP id <0MO5001Y5FJL6NL0@ms04574.mac.com> for xxxxx@me.com; Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:21:21 +0000 (GMT)

      Received:   from hakahakajkfbczj.googlemoogl.tk ([91.191.18.62]) by nk11p00mm-smtpin004.mac.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7u4-27.05(7.0.4.27.4) 64bit (built Apr 23 2013)) with SMTP id <0MO50002UFJJV0G0@nk11p00mm-smtpin004.mac.com> for xxxxx@me.com (ORCPT xxxxx@me.com); Sun, 09 Jun 2013 23:21:21 +0000 (GMT)

      Received:   from nwk-txn-msbadger0204.apple.com (nwk-txn-msbadger0204.apple.com. [xx.xxx.x.xx]) by xx.xxx.x.xx with HTTP; Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:21:21 +0200

      Original-Recipient:   rfc822;xxxxx@me.com

      X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version:   vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.10.8626,1.0.431,0.0.0000 definitions=2013-06-09_07:2013-06-08,2013-06-09,1970-01-01 signatures=0

      X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details:   rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 suspectscore=14 phishscore=0 bulkscore=53 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=6.0.2-1305010000 definitions=main-1306090279

      Dkim-Signature:   v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=hakahakajkfbczj.googlemoogl.tk; s=hakahakajkfbczj; h=from:subject:date:to:content-type; bh=tL+/wJmQOT1qfRAmSggBixqXyEIqt839Zb4SbOAPNOM=; b=…lggV4PzuGc/TkDUNdlU=;

      Message-Id:   <0D66EC23-70A1-D480-7514-D280D76FF040@apple.com>

      Mime-Version:   1.0 (Apple Message framework v936)

      Content-Type:   multipart/mixed; boundary="-4277442969-183115831-7904244676=:70228”


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