Q: Anyone else getting spam on icloud email?
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Dec 26, 2012 12:34 PMby kjodmb,I just got the same Dr Oz email. My original email was .mac. I NEVER used @me or @icloud. Most of the spam goes to @me. My husband has only used @me. He got hit with about 20 emails yesterday morning. We're wondering if something was hacked.
A potential fix (and this will only work if the extension you're getting spam to isn't the one you use) is to enable rules to auto trash them. For instance, I only use @mac, so I now have rules that anything to @me or @icloud goes to Junk folder.
Does anyone know if moving a message to junk on the iphone "marks" it as spam?
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Dec 26, 2012 1:01 PMby D M K,Been getting these Dr. OZ spam emails for a few months. There is no way of setting up a server side rule to block these emails before they make it to your iPhone and no way to run rules on your phone separately.
Please see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4899?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US to let Apple know about it.
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Dec 26, 2012 1:07 PMby kyte,I actually dont use any of my apple addresses. I'm pretty well lodged in the google ecosystem. I wanted icloud for find my phone, contact syncing, and imessage. I had mac.com but never really took advantage of it, so let it lapse (more fool me, lost the address even though thats my appleID) and the same thing happened when I took me.com a couple of years later (and was too late to get my mac.com address switched over.... which I still think is insane, nobody else has it but me, there doesnt seem to be any logical or technical reason not to allow it... but thats a whole nother issue which only meets brick walls).
The upshot is, these emails are going to addresses and IDs which are not in use. Ergo... either there is a big security breach, or the spammers have a much more sophisticated system for sending to random people within a domain. I'm leaning towards the first. I've only been getting these mails this week. Prior to that, nothing.
I dont think moving a message to junk does much more than mark it as spam for you. Its not like in gmail where if you do that, its for the whole system, and x reports means it gets classed as spam for everyone.
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Dec 26, 2012 1:19 PMby kjodmb,I use only gmail for logins and all. I go through phases of trying to "condense" email addresses, using mac mail, and using gmail. The problem w/ gmail is the 15-minute Fetch delay. (I know I can set up in exchange, but I like the folders to look nice. I hate how they look in exchange).
do you have a gmail solution that keeps the folders looking "native" and allows for push email?
oh - when I do use gmail, I fwd mac mail to gmail and I get all the mac mail spam.
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Dec 26, 2012 1:38 PMby kyte,Sorry, nothing fancy. I use Mailplane for gmail, its a very neat wrapper for the web mail. I also use mail.app and sometimes postbox.app. on the phone, either the gmail.app or mail.app.
I used to try conglomerating all my mail but in the end it was more confusing than using separate accounts.
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Dec 26, 2012 1:50 PMby jordanfb728,Me too. Just started happening in the past couple weeks. All kinds of spam from all kinds of bogus email addresses sent "To" "undisclosed[random characters]@icloud.com". I'll bet this is some kind mapping that has been hijacked. I'll bet my "[my email address]@me.com" is mapped to some random "undisclosed[blah blah]@icloud.com" address that Apple uses to abstract user accounts. Apple has been hacked!
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Dec 26, 2012 1:56 PMby Julian Wright,Two more Dr.OZ spams just now, sent to an obscure iCloud alias I have never used and to my wifes never used iCloud account (I just registered her to bag her name in anticipation she might use it one day).
Yet more evidence that Apple's email account list has been hacked and obtained somehow.
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Dec 26, 2012 2:21 PMby electrogruve,I got another one after I responded to the OP this morning. Mine came from undiscloded056167@ icloud and was about Dr Oz as well. I also got one from jaynebeynon@ me on December 21. This is just strange. Glad I don't use this email for anything, but it makes me wonder if iCloud is somehow compromised and if it is, does it stop just at the email?
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Dec 26, 2012 3:04 PMby Ipadzen,Me too. Just started happening Christmas morning. 8 of them in 80 minutes. Same thing this morning. Different advertisments, but all sent from "@justallyourbase". I forwarded today's to spam@me.com and hope apple will take care of this. I have an ipad so I can't do anything on my side. There is a link in the ads to unsubscribe to the email ads but I assume it is not wise to click on that. Think I will try to contact apple directly, not just here in the community.
