Hello, I have been receiving a lot of spam e-mail lately.
It seem like it started right after the install of iOS and iPad os 15.
I use Apple mail app.
It is just like the spam filter reseted and would't restart.
Does anyone have this problem?
I keep on blocking senders, but their is a endless number of them!
Did Apple remove the spam filter in favor of "Hide my e-mail"
What can I do?
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irayspot,
If you're using iCloud then we'd recommend following the steps here: Identify and filter junk mail in iCloud. This will help make sure that iCloud understands what is junk and what you want to see so that going forward the filters are more effective. Based on your description, these messages could also be phishing attempts. You can learn more about that here: Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams.
Hopefully this helps.
irayspot,
If you're using iCloud then we'd recommend following the steps here: Identify and filter junk mail in iCloud. This will help make sure that iCloud understands what is junk and what you want to see so that going forward the filters are more effective. Based on your description, these messages could also be phishing attempts. You can learn more about that here: Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams.
Hopefully this helps.
It is definitely due to iOS15 but not in the way you think. iOS attempts to hide whether you are opening an email from a sender by always “opening” by downloading the images used to track e-mail opens. The problem is that spammers can see this open and immediately get feedback that they sent an email that is mapped to an active Apple device. Then automated systems constantly will send. The only way to get off those lists is to never let those images get cached by opening the email which used to be possible until Apple made this update.
The best courses of action are to disconnect your email from the default Apple mail app and wait 6 months or get a new email address.
Hey there, irayspot!
Thanks so much for using Apple Support Communities.
It sounds like you're getting a lot of spam emails and we can understand wanting to get those sorted out. We can help with that.
To start, it's unlikely that iOS 15 would have made spam messages more prolific on your device. However, we do want to recommend that you work through the steps here to make sure that your account is set up in the best way possible to avoid those types of junk messages. Here's how: Block phone numbers, contacts, and emails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
We hope that this information is helpful.
Have a great day!
Bpeterson111 wrote:
What a ridiculous answer. People have been doing this for years and it really doesn’t seem to help. There is a junk email folder that was doing a decent job in catching these emails before they get to our inbox. However after upgrade to 15.2, emails that should be caught around finding their way to my inbox. Judging from the me too’s above, there are a lot of us in the same boat. Somebody needs to find a fix for this. No more obvious, ridiculous replies please.
iPhones by default have NEVER, EVER had spam filtering. All spam filtering is done by your email provider, and if spam messages are suddenly getting through to your phone that is because your ISP’s spam filtering is not doing its job.
Enel2022 wrote:
I’ve had 70 spam today and every day since 15.3 update. Must be a bug, so unusual.
No, it’s not a bug. iOS has no spam filtering, and never has. It didn’t have any before 15.3, and doesn’t have any with 15.3. some spammer has just got your number, unfortunately. Is it text or email spam? And have you recently provided personal information to a new-to-you website or app?
Block Remote Content has been rolled into Settings/Mail/Privacy Protection/Protect Mail Activity. If you turn this on it hides your IP address and also blocks loading images with tags that can track you.
no iPhone has ever had a spam filter, unless you install one from the App Store. That is a FACT, not anything ”generic”. If messages went to spam that’s because your ISP put them there.
For me, after I upgraded iOS , the option to “block remote content” was gone, and remote images started to load. After a couple of spam emails got by me and loaded the image, I started getting a crapload of spam from an address “*@chinaemail.cn” . At least 20 to 30 find their way to me every night. Sure, Apple hides my location, but the fact that I acknowledge that I exist doesn’t stop them because I now load remote content. I can’t block the address as each email is sent from a different account from the domain name.
The AT&T/Yahoo mail system has been breached multiple times. If you have had an account there for more than a year, it's been breached.
The spam filters on gmail are arguably better, but not perfect.
I keep multiple accounts. One for bills and banking, one for personal correspondence, one for corresponding with companies/organizations/people not within my immediate circle, one for registering on websites, and one for shopping.
As has already been stated, I believe, the Yahoo mail system, including AT&T emails and any other companies that use that system were breached repeatedly.
Dump them and move to an email provider that isn't so likely to be hacked several times a year.
Spam that is caught by my email provider gets through to my Apple mail. I get the most spam (and really obvious stuff) on my iphone. If I go into Outlook on my PC or direct to the email providers website to get my email I do not see anywhere near the volume of ridiculous stuff I get on my iphone. I always select "move to Junk" so it supposedly "learns" but it never seems to learn anything.
I use Apple iCloud for mail, as well as third-party hosting for mail, and have seen no increase in spam.
Yahoo was breached twice per reports, and has been one of many sources of spam since then.
I routinely receive mail from a good friend with a Yahoo account. A good friend who died several years ago.
If y’all are interested in seeing where your email account (and variously also passwords!) have been leaked, visit:
ps: These data breaches and data leaks—and particularly those with password leaks—are why password re-use is so deadly.
I'm sorry but the boiler plate answers to this problem will not do. The reality is that many of us started to see that as many as 20% of the items in our "in Box" are from OBVIOUS fake senders. How they get through the Spam filtering is the fault of Apple, not the end user (who is always burdened with fixing the flaws in software that never get fixed).
To wit: here is one of many variations on the sender's address:
infopysiqgonpzxuwvkdtx0c@quytjm8z54ejf9etwbtn.mail-nat.workday.com'.
Sometimes there are TWO domains stuck together with two @ symbols. I know Apple can end this easily. So why won't they? It doesn't matter how many times you flag the message, mark it as spam, block the sender, and have it all go to the trash. They are back the next day with 20 more phishing emails from roof gutters to getting poisoned on Camp Lejeune. I am sure that your email servers can nip this in the bud. So, why won't you?
The iPhone does not have a spam filter. You can add one with a 3rd party app from the app store.
What a ridiculous answer. People have been doing this for years and it really doesn’t seem to help. There is a junk email folder that was doing a decent job in catching these emails before they get to our inbox. However after upgrade to 15.2, emails that should be caught around finding their way to my inbox. Judging from the me too’s above, there are a lot of us in the same boat. Somebody needs to find a fix for this. No more obvious, ridiculous replies please.
iPad spam email since iOS 15 install
