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Q: Anyone else getting spam on icloud email?

I've recently begun getting spam to my iCloud email address.  I would be less concerned about this if I had ever used my me.com or icloud.com address, but I havent.  Its DrOz, promoting some health stuff... I've never had anything to do with them, and don't wish to start.  I've sent the spam to junk, naturally, and hopefully all ensuing spams will go there.

 

Just curious if anyone else has received it/them. I've had more than one, but have just been deleting until today, when I took a closer look.  The address it was sent to was "undisclosed@icloud.com" so I am assuming I'm not the only one, and some cleverdick has managed to breach icloud security.

Posted on Dec 26, 2012 10:19 AM

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  • by Ipadzen,

    Ipadzen Ipadzen Dec 26, 2012 3:36 PM in response to Greenman01
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    Dec 26, 2012 3:36 PM in response to Greenman01

    Just called apple support and reported the problem. Probably the more calls they get the more likely it is to get fixed. Apple tech said to forward all spam to spam@me.com. Guess it might be spam@icloud.com or spam@mac.com for other users.

  • by capaho,

    capaho capaho Dec 26, 2012 4:14 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 26, 2012 4:14 PM in response to kyte
  • by Greenman01,

    Greenman01 Greenman01 Dec 26, 2012 4:53 PM in response to capaho
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    Dec 26, 2012 4:53 PM in response to capaho

    And the bigger problem is that none of APPLE servers may be secure and all data at risk.

  • by happercamper3,

    happercamper3 happercamper3 Dec 27, 2012 8:15 AM in response to kyte
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    Dec 27, 2012 8:15 AM in response to kyte

    I too have received this email from Dr Oz.. I never use my icloud address..it is strictly for my iphone..This is my second one that I received...

  • by onemiami,

    onemiami onemiami Dec 27, 2012 8:58 AM in response to Ipadzen
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    Dec 27, 2012 8:58 AM in response to Ipadzen

    Same situation.  Just started getting spammed on Christmas.  Now 3 days.  All from same domain but different addresses.  Very frustrating.  I was already cursing who would have sold my address, but now realizing it was a breach.  Have been reporting every instance to spam@me.com, hasn't helped.

  • by mobdoc,

    mobdoc mobdoc Dec 27, 2012 9:03 AM in response to kyte
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    Dec 27, 2012 9:03 AM in response to kyte

    About 5 days now of intense spam coming to my icloud. Same type of emials (Dr. Oz, pizza, starbucks survey, 1-800-dentist, snoring solution etc etc etc.

     

    Is apple selling out email addresses? I miss the ol' bounce button on the previous mail app.

  • by Ipadzen,

    Ipadzen Ipadzen Dec 27, 2012 12:50 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 27, 2012 12:50 PM in response to kyte

    Only got three today instead of the eight I was getting. Did change my mail settings to stop downloading remote images and am sending them all to spam@me.com. Maybe these things are helping or my call to apple support. The address they are coming from changes everyday, " only boating", "just all your base", etc.

  • by kyte,

    kyte kyte Dec 27, 2012 5:03 PM in response to Ipadzen
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    Dec 27, 2012 5:03 PM in response to Ipadzen

    Today, its MacKeeper.  Same mob.  undiscloded.  Apple!!!  DO something!

  • by hassanfromga,

    hassanfromga hassanfromga Dec 28, 2012 1:14 PM in response to onemiami
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    Dec 28, 2012 1:14 PM in response to onemiami

    I started getting the spam messages on christmas also.

  • by kyte,

    kyte kyte Dec 28, 2012 1:15 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 28, 2012 1:15 PM in response to kyte

    Nothing so far today... fingers crossed.

  • by Maldox,

    Maldox Maldox Dec 28, 2012 8:11 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 28, 2012 8:11 PM in response to kyte

    Hi everyone, As same as you I don't use this E-Mail Address , but I'm registered on Netflix maybe it's gulty , Greetings !

  • by Justin Spencer,

    Justin Spencer Justin Spencer Dec 28, 2012 8:24 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 28, 2012 8:24 PM in response to kyte

    I'm getting the same. Never had a single spam email to any of my apple email addresses now since 25 December they're flooding in. I've been marking them as junk which I believe automatically notifies Apple although it would be nice if i could at least do this on the iPad. I also tried adding some rules in iCloud mail but its really basic so spammers will have no problem getting around this.

     

    Bit of a worry.

  • by sweetmud,

    sweetmud sweetmud Dec 29, 2012 11:13 AM in response to kyte
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    Dec 29, 2012 11:13 AM in response to kyte

    Freaky - just got an email to my iCloud account FROM my friends cell phone - a verizon text address - which they always use to communicate...they don't own a computer.  It was for Meetup.com.  The body was written like a scammer so I called and asked - nope - never sent it. 

     

    Interestingly, iCloud knew it was JUNK as that's where it was automatically filtered. Impressive seeing that the verizon cell phone text addres was identical to my friends...something I can't see must have made the system filter it.  Yes, they have sent me web addresses before...for over a few years...never goes to Junk.

     

    I did get the OZ email and also just got a call from a friend finding an email with my name attached to some Yahoo email account.  So, something is up with Contacts I think.  Regardless of things going to a SPAM folder...my concern is...how to kill it.  Since this got really bad over Xmas I've decided to uncheck my Contacts into the iCloud feed and just keep the copy on my desktop until more solutions are found.

  • by kyte,

    kyte kyte Dec 29, 2012 12:01 PM in response to sweetmud
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    Dec 29, 2012 12:01 PM in response to sweetmud

    sweetmud wrote:

    ...

    Since this got really bad over Xmas I've decided to uncheck my Contacts into the iCloud feed and just keep the copy on my desktop until more solutions are found.

    What a good idea.  Its so easy to have contacts syncing to the cloud... who knows if their addresses have been compromised too...  I may do the same... but, fingers crossed, I haven't had any more spam mails, and nothing appearing to be from any of my contacts yet.

  • by _network_,

    _network_ _network_ Dec 29, 2012 1:03 PM in response to kyte
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    Dec 29, 2012 1:03 PM in response to kyte

    This also just recently started happening to my iCloud email.  I have now begun fowarding the emails to spam@me.com.

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