Q: Anyone else getting spam on icloud email?

I was getting a ton of spam around the holidays, but I spent a lot of time cleaning it up and marking things as junk.  I get far less now.

<3, SJ

I have just started receiving spam messages this week from icloud, I have never sent a message via Icloud therefore find it difficult to understand why I am now getting spam via this route, I read somewhere that I should forward as an attachment, the message tospam@me.com I did this on monday after receveid the first spam message, since then I have reveived a few each day from different addresses and they are increasing

There must be something seriously wrong with Apple's security for this to be happening

Usually Apple keeps a tight ship filtering spam, but some get through, especially lately. Of course, don't reply or click on anything. I move them to the Junk Folder and when I go on my desktop Mac, give the contents in the Junk Folder the thumbs down. I don't really know what it does though. Then I forward them to "spam@icloud.com. If I see similarities in sender addresses, etc., I set up spam rules.

Response return email as follows:

Greetings,

Thank you for contacting iCloud.  We have received the spam report that you submitted.

iCloud takes all violations of the Acceptable Use Policy very seriously.

A iCloud security member will investigate the incident and will contact you if required. 

All reported spam must be provided as an attachment.

If you are using the application Mail in Mac OS X please follow these steps:

1) Select the spam message in your Inbox

2) From the Menu bar select Message => Forward As Attachment

3) Address to spam@icloud.com and Send

The iCloud Membership Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy are available online at:

http://www.apple.com/legal/icloud/en/terms.html

Thank you for taking the time to contact us. 

iCloud Postmaster

Yes, I started getting a lot of spam on as of 12/13/2013. I am getting a lot of emails. Can apple do something about it please?

I know it is a few years late on the topic but I just started getting the same spam emails sent to all of my iCloud aliases (5 of them total).  They are unrelated addresses, meaning they have never been used on the same sites, or in association with each other, and one of them I have never even used at all.  Yet all of them are getting the same spams all of a sudden.  This seems to me like there has been a serious security breach at Apple that no one is talking about.  Anyone else want to weigh on this topic?

maplevshoney wrote:

 

I know it is a few years late on the topic but I just started getting the same spam emails sent to all of my iCloud aliases (5 of them total).  They are unrelated addresses, meaning they have never been used on the same sites, or in association with each other, and one of them I have never even used at all.  Yet all of them are getting the same spams all of a sudden.  This seems to me like there has been a serious security breach at Apple that no one is talking about.  Anyone else want to weigh on this topic?

Since I've been using iCloud email, I haven't once gotten a piece of spam and that still continues so I don't think there was "a security breach at Apple".  My suggestion would be to report the spam emails to spam@icloud.com

Also see this for further help -- iCloud: Identifying and filtering junk mail - Apple Support

Not one spam? How long have you been internetting for?  Are you the same guy who drives his brand new car around and brags that he "doesn't have one ding?"  Well just you wait buddy!

I forward *the occasional* spams I get to Apple all the time (as if it helps, though I'm sure that it is a social pacifier designed to give us the illusion that they are on top of things).  That said-

Is it not suspicious that all of a sudden I am getting the same exact spam emails sent to my five unrelated .icloud email aliases, including one that I have never used?  How could a spammer have retrieved all of those addresses if they had not gained access to Apple's iCloud database somehow?  (No, there is no backdoor on my computer that they phished the addresses through, as I do not have them enabled on my Mac.)

If you and only one other person in the world know the combination to your 'unbreakable' safe, who will you look to first when you get robbed?

Just saying, s'a little weird.

- m

maplevshoney wrote:

 

Not one spam? How long have you been internetting for?  Are you the same guy who drives his brand new car around and brags that he "doesn't have one ding?"  Well just you wait buddy!

 

I forward *the occasional* spams I get to Apple all the time (as if it helps, though I'm sure that it is a social pacifier designed to give us the illusion that they are on top of things).  That said-

 

Is it not suspicious that all of a sudden I am getting the same exact spam emails sent to my five unrelated .icloud email aliases, including one that I have never used?  How could a spammer have retrieved all of those addresses if they had not gained access to Apple's iCloud database somehow?  (No, there is no backdoor on my computer that they phished the addresses through, as I do not have them enabled on my Mac.)

 

If you and only one other person in the world know the combination to your 'unbreakable' safe, who will you look to first when you get robbed?

 

Just saying, s'a little weird.

 

- m

I have to say, your post had me in stitches laughing!  I thoroughly enjoyed it.  Mind you, I'm not making fun of your predicament or situation but just the way you brought your point across was very witty.

I think the reason I probably don't get any spam in my iCloud email is because it's filtered through Gmail.  I forward all my mail from Gmail to iCloud and primarily use the latter with friends and family.

However I do agree with you that it's rather odd that all five of your email addresses have suddenly become a cesspool for junk and spam emails.

Spam contamination has destroyed my iCloud email account, too!

I started this email account because I wanted an account for family, close friends and academic  associates. I'd had it for a little more than month when the Invasion of the Idiots began.

The first one was Facebook which since it was a single source should have easy to control, but they are still coming!  Now the sources seem random - ads, solicitations for donations, political diatribes (I don't need any sent to me, I generate quite enough of my own).

The ironic thing - some sort of karmic ***-bite I guess - is that I worked at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the early eighties about the time the  internet was being created by turning over the DARPA to civilian use.  Yes, indeed, I am one of the guilty parties.  But honest, we thought it would be a Good Thing. So did Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web.

Has anything improved?

cheers

marti

Yes, I have to agree with some of the latest posts to this thread, i.e. an unusual influx of spam has been entering my iCloud email!