margbeargie wrote:
my iCloud mail inbox and VIP box are simultaneously filling up with enumerous junk mail; this occurred suddenly and drastically. I am going to change my iCloud email address. I am alarmed and concerned about this tsunami and invasion of my personal email inbox.
If your VIP mailbox is filling with spam, there is something decidedly odd about what users you have selected as VIP, or with what spam you are getting.
As for your email address getting collected, whatever here got breached will probably get breached again, or something else with your new email address will get breached. Spam exists, and email addresses are valuable to spammers, and the folks that engage with the spammers—as described above—are particularly valuable.
Changing addresses will undoubtedly provide a moment of respite, and then the spammers will continue to sell both your old (removed) address and capture and sell your newly-created address, and the cycle starts anew.
Apple does offer throw-away email addresses, and some other means to reduce this.
But pragmatically, everybody gets spam.
I’d mark as junk, and move on.