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?
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If your account is pretty old your .mac and .me addresses are totally locked to your iCloud address as permanent aliases and can NEVER be removed. So you'll never be able to fix it from that standpoint. Try getting a spam filter like SpamSieve. Apple should be automatically doing something like that in my opinion. One solution, that could be very problematic, would be to get a different iCloud account. BUT, then you may lose some programs and will definitely lose Apple music or iTunes. Apple has no way you can move things to a new Apple iCould account without issues. Or do a new account but discontinue email totally on the old account and restart email with the new account. Then, you would still have access to things like iTunes but would have to sign in to your old account to use it. Due to the ever changing nature of spam nothing Apple offers truly works for long. Especially with spam from lists and groups. It just keeps coming with simple changes of a letter, or number somewhere in the from or to fields. What I was told was to send all spam to abuse@apple.com. Either directly or as an attachment. This takes time but if it overloads Apple maybe they'll finally start to take it seriously. Of course they don't read any of it but perhaps an uptick in numbers will be noticed. This is shameful on Apple's part. I have had many conversations with Apple about this and they either have no idea or what they offer won't really work. There is no reason I can think of for them not to allow the deletion of mac.com and me.com or to be able to switch to a different iCloud account without all the hassles and losses of programs, data, whatever. They can't even tell me what would really be affected.
Me too...and the To line usually does not have my name in it or any of my addresses because it's a group email. Can't stop them...and it just gets passed around. Even if I block them they still show up only as blocked. Blocked should not even come through in my opinion.
Me too..original Apple ID from decades ago that I'm stuck with. Can't deactivate it or I lose iTunes and a bunch of other stuff. I'm sure Apple could fix this if they wanted to. Looks like all I can do is deactivate iCloud mail and start over with something like gmail. I don't think email and AppleMail is even close to being a priority for them. Even going through support they don't seem to know what the heck you're talking about with this locked in id that causes the problems. Would love to ditch forever me.com and Mac.com.
I'm glad I'm not the only one here being inundated with spam emails all of a sudden. I've had some kind of apple email (@me, @iCloud) for years and can't remember the last time I got spam.
Just over the last few months I'm now getting dozens of junk messages every week - several of which are from @iCloud email addresses.
Is this obvious problem going to be addressed at some point or what?
I like what earthlink is doing.
"I apologize for this automatic reply to your email.
To control spam, I now allow incoming messages only from senders I have approved beforehand.
If you would like to be added to my list of approved senders, please fill out the short request form (see link below). Once I approve you, I will receive your original message in my inbox. You do not need to resend your message. I apologize for this one-time inconvenience.
Click the link below to fill out the request:
I have left the link out, but it includes the name of the person you were sending to. (plus the link)"
SpamSieve works really well but no program is perfect. Also it does nothing on iCloud Mail. I use it on just plain old Mail. Most of the spam I get does not go through to Mail. I do find on iCloud Mail which then has to be dealt with one at a time if you're reporting it.
I too continue to experience a lot of spam, mostly in my Junk folder, and I take the time to block each one individually. But, this morning I had ten in my inbox? Has Apple ever answered our concerns?
It just never stops. Now, after rule after rule it's coming to iCloud INBOX. By switching to gmail the problem has stopped EXCEPT for Apple email addresses I never use. I even had to establish an alternate Apple account to stop having to deal with it on my usual account. But I can't stop it from coming in to the old address, which I have to keep for iTunes, and I refuse to delete it all one at a time. Good grief!!!!
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This started happening to me as well. It started suddenly yesterday. I got over 250 spam emails in about 2 hours! I discovered that Somehow my spam filters were turned off - which is very strange since I’d never do such a thing!
I turned the filters back on, but I’m still receiving a large number of spam emails. 150 ish so far today- which is still a lot. I’ve just looked at my junk folder : 560 emails today :(. This is nuts. What can I do??
EXACTLY! Hopefully Apple gets some spam filters in place real soon.
even my @yahoo gets less SPAM.
clearly Apple has a problem.
400+ a day! Mine started in November 2022.....Have tried EVERYTHING mentioned and nothing has stopped it.
Another scary escalation today: I found what appears to be an automated reply to a spam email sitting in my Drafts folder!
In addition to e-mails I have flagged as "Junk" going to my inbox, I'm receiving many e-mails that look similar to this (this is something new that's been happening since Jan/Feb as well):
@mandyGriz….. me too! Just like yours!
Same here. Thousands of junk messages a week. Anyone know what happened?
Spam overload on iCloud Email Address
