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SPAM overload on ICloud Email Address

Has anyone noticed an absurd amount of SPAM on icloud emails? Apple used to have the best filters. I now get upwards of 100 emails every hour in my junk folder. I used to go months before getting even 10 junk emails. What happened to Apple's spam settings?

Posted on Feb 19, 2023 5:58 AM

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Sep 7, 2023 10:24 AM in response to mac833

All of a sudden I am getting slammed also. There seems to be so many easy fixes Apple could implement. Such as ability to report an email address, permanently ban / block an email address and or domain. Lately I am getting >100 per day and many are going into my inbox.


I always read my junk folder because too often, legitimate emails go there. But this problem is making email unmanageable.

Sep 25, 2023 9:00 AM in response to mac833

Having the same issue. Except the junk I’m getting doesn’t go into my junk folder - it just comes into my regular Inbox. Blocking the senders does nothing except add the little red “no” symbol to the email. Rules and filters don’t work. It’s really changed how I see Apple as a brand, honestly. Serious brand damage, Apple.

Sep 27, 2023 1:28 PM in response to JessS19

I have followed all of these tips, plus have called and talked to specialists regarding this issue. For a few months, all seemed to be going well after creating close to 100 rules on my iCloud account (which I think is ridiculous, but this was what was suggested to me by the last specialist I spoke with - in other words, Apple isn't probably going to do anything about it, so you do the work 😐).


Anywho, now in the last week, I've been getting bombarded again. I am blocking and then deleting each without opening, but also now I'm forwarding the messages to "reportfishing@apple.com" and hoping that gives some relief. Here are the types of messages I'm receiving:





Oct 5, 2023 9:40 AM in response to zazzang

zazzang wrote:

Here for this reason alone. It's becoming unbearable how much spam I get lately! I started exclusively using icloud email years ago because it only had emails I wanted. sigh.

Over time, the more you use an email address, the more spam it will get. This is true of email from any provider. I hardly ever use my iCloud email address so I get zero spam. My Gmail account, my primary address, is a different story. It gets lots. Fortunately, Gmail's spam filtering is quite good. I recognize there are many good reasons for not using Gmail.


One of the things you can do is have one email address you use for sending email to known individuals (friends, family, trusted associates) and another that you use for any kind of online business such as purchasing things from websites, subscribing to newsletters, donating to political campaigns, entering contests. In other words, anything where you don't have a personal relationship with the recipient. The personal address should remain relatively free of spam for longer.

Oct 5, 2023 9:50 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

I respect your comments. However, this particular situation arose almost over night. I've had an iCloud email address since the .mac days. If a few days time, it went from no spam to hundreds of spam messages a day. Many others experienced this. And the spam coming in is so obviously spam, it should have been filtered at the provider level. (Subjects with obviously spam content, no text in the message area, etc.)


That said, the spam has recently decreased significantly. I have hope...

Oct 5, 2023 10:10 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Just because this issue isn’t happening to you specifically does not mean it’s not happening at all. This has become a huge problem in the last year or so and it’s not because those of us who are experiencing it don’t understand how e-mail works. I’ve got emails from friends and family I email often going to spam, and hundreds of spam a day have been filling up my junk mailbox as well as some trickling into my main inbox. It got to the point where I had to scroll through the hundreds of spam messages each day in junk just to make sure I wasn’t missing something important that got filtered incorrectly (happened often). I finally had to make the switch to other options for email. This is definitely not simply a “if you use an email address for a long time you’ll get more spam” situation.

Oct 21, 2023 3:23 PM in response to dalee79

I already gave up and migrated everything over to Google. It was a hassle but it paid off in the end. I rarely ever get spam on my Gmail account. Maybe Gmail has superior spam filters compared to Apple. If there was an option to permanently delete my entire Apple account I would. I have already sold off all of my Apple products. Their main priorities are pumping out the same products every year and putting everything on a monthly subscription plan.

Nov 2, 2023 5:11 PM in response to mac833

SAME HERE. JFC WTF happened? What is even more disconcerting is I cannot change my email address. My main apple id. Once created it's locked in. That's just bs. So rule upon rule I create to immediately place any email received using the words in any kind of variation from You'vewon! or Youve won or youhavewon cause they keep changing the letters around or adding a period and then a set of numbers at the end to keep getting through to you. Even just opening the email to read it pings their servers back to let them know you're there. So if you create a rule to send it directly to trash (but do not tell it to mark it read) and then you just empty your trash or let it empty on auto, they'll stop. But it takes finesse. I have over 50 rules keeping my junk and inbox empty. I maybe get a new one ever so often, but the rules using every possible variation of words numbers and letter combinations is only thing maintaining my sanity.

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