capaho
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Everyone I know with an iCloud mail account keeps getting this annoying Dr. Oz Diet spam at the same time. This miscreant has obviously figured out how to spam the whole system. Why can't Apple get this under control? Is there a spam reporting tool in iCloud?
Q: Dr.Oz Diet Spam
I'm pretty sure that the iCloud mail system is exposed in some way, hopefully indirectly rather than directly and our email addresses are now "out there". There's no way I'm getting spams to email addresses that I've never used… ever.
The interesting thing is that all my account are @me.com accounts and I'm getting ALL spam messages to the newly added @icloud.com address. I'm never getting anything to the @me.com address. So my guess is someone has managed to tap themselves into the the same system that Apple used to send us all those "All new iCloud Mail accounts now come with an @icloud.com email address." messages and other such iCloud notifications.
Kaivi wrote:
Actually, this is quite interesting. For almost 3 years I've had this account, I have never receieved any spam. And the only one which went through spam filters was this Dr. Oz Diet.
Spammers are either getting pay a_freaking_lot, or somebody has ripped the iCloud e-mail database with ease.
Also, could that be a botnet consisting of Macs?
It's the same for me. I never received any spam to my MobileMe/iCloud account until recently, and it's only this Dr. Oz spam. I receive no spam other than that one. Apple clearly has a problem on their hands.
stevejobsfan0123 wrote:
Mine came from: jgrwdqhk@hotmail.com
The first "Received: from" directive in the header shows the point of origin. Press option-command-u with the message selected in Mail on your Mac to view the full headers. Unfortunately, neither the iCloud web interface nor the iOS Mail app provide a way to view the full headers. The last round of this spam to my account originated from here:
Received: from localhost ([122.173.184.159]) by nk11p00mm-smtpin122.mac.com
That IP address belongs to Bharti Tele-Ventures Limited, an ISP in India.
powerslideita wrote:
Nice, i'll try that. I'm also gonna add this:
Hopefully both should sort it
It might be better to move it to the Junk folder as I've been told that will automatically forward a copy to spam@me.com.
My .me account and that of my wife are also receiving the Dr Oz spam, going back to late November and again today. Neither of us use these e-mail accounts, they're not p[osted anywhere, nor are they in anyone's address books other than ours, and we are a 100% Apple family.
Some data points... To address those who might think an address book got hacked or a forum got slurped... Etc.
I have had a me.com account for over three years. Have never recieved any email to that account even for apple as a welcome ( was before they sent welcome emails. ). In short I don't use this account for sending emails, never have sent an email from it.
I noticed that ther were some emails waiting for me there. I was shocked to see it we spam, so I googled for this and found this any many other threads about this same spam email. I kind of figured apple got hacked and this definitely is one more I indicator my suspicions are correct. No way for anyone to hack my address book as it's not an email account listed, shared or used. Not to mention I'm aware of about a dozen others with this same spa message.
Apple..... we expect better than this. You lost positive control of a lot of email addresses.
I don't know if the iCloud mail rules are case-sensitive or not, but they may be. The last Dr. Oz spam I received was addressed to something like undisclosed043210@me.com. Adding a rule with a wildcard for the To address might catch such variations, something like undisclosed*@me.com.
QuickTimeKirk
