SPAM level increased last 2-3 weeks

i called and filed a report on this issue, and am crossing my fingers

I too am getting these spams. There is a bogus name of KCG Marketing, but it is a phoney name & address. This has all happened in the last couple of days since I rolled mail over to iCloud.

Today, one of the emails greeting was to "iCloud Users".

Time for Apple to step up on this spammer and figure out how to get ahead of him.

I just don't understand spam email like this. Do they really generate business for mortgage refi, orgreenic pots and pans and the likes, through this?

JPK

I have noticed a significant increase in spam since I switched over from iDisk to iCloud last week. Previously was not an issue. The spam are attached to Vimeo and Youtube messages.

iCloud Spam filtering: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4899

Yes, exactly the same thing happened to me upon switching over to iCloud. I also noticed that many of the new SPAMs that I am getting are addressed to a collections of "mac.com" domain email addresses which brings up a possibility of security breach affecting former MobileMe customers. I tried to contact customer support but Apple thinks that all users are hardware customers (well I do have macbook pro, iPad, iMac and iPhones... but..) that they require hardware serial # for the right to speak to customer support agent which is terrible, and there's no logical way to report such possible security issue to Apple. What bothers me the most is that those of us who started getting SPAMs by switching to iCloud (because we had no choice) were paying $100 per year for MobileMe service and got stuck because core friends and family members are using that mac.com/me.com email address. I sent a message to Apple's suggestion box asking them to improve the spam filter/rule creation so that bulk emails will be automatically filtered, but who knows if they would ever see it. While I love hardware created by Apple, iCloud service seriously lacks the key features such as basic spam filtering. Here are the critical features iCloud is missing: [1] Ability to set a rule to move all emails coming from unknown address (those not in address book) to JUNK folder so that users can audit them from Mac without opening them. Currently, there's no such option. [2] Better server-side SPAM filtering rule [3] Ability to disable preview on iPhone/iPad mail so that spammers will never know that email address is active.

Just to chime in I am having the exact same thing happen the last few days. 30+ messages a day and the same exact ones mentioned in this thread.

I too am having the same issue. In the past couple of weeks a massive uptick in spam almost all from noreply@awesomemailforme.com. After reading this thread, I went to iCloud mail and set a rule. We'll see how that goes.

I just got 20+ of that same type of spam this morning, all originating from 37.244.63.xxx.

The rule I created did not work.

19 more of the same spam messages in my inbox this morning.

I also created like 30+ rules, the ones whic are not working seems to be the rules based on the sender, so I added subject line based rules such as "subject containing the word Meds", etc., and those seems to be working at the moment. However, I had to cover all variations of bunch of words typically contained in SPAM subject lines and boy, what a pain it is! We shouldn't have to be doing this kind of workaround if you see what I mean. My Google mail filters all the SPAMS without me creating ANY rules at all. Those responsible for iCloud product should better be paying attentions to our complaints because current SPAM filter is a complete joke.

Yes I am getting several SPAMs a day since switching from MobileMe to iCloud about a week ago, before that I used to get virtually none.

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Are you forwarding the spam as an attachment to spam@me.com?

I have forwarded my spam to spam@me.com

I will let you know what Apple says. I am curious why this spamming would happen after switching from iDisk to iCloud.

I can't provide much in the way of addressing iCloud spam, but I do have some experience with the problem.

Apple's spam "filtering" has been atrocious since iCloud came out. I too have been receiving the same sort of junk messages, the domain usually being "mail@e.*.com," where the wildcard is a random string of words. After forwarding hundreds of messages to spam@me.com, hearing every time that Apple takes spam violations "very seriously," and then receiving identical junk mail day after day, I'm convinced that Apple has no interest in curbing the spam problem. The format and HTML of these spam messages is the same every time, which shouldn't be hard to block with a good algorithm. A blogger has been tracking these messages here, when they first appeared, along with full DNS and registrar info, and I've even forwarded the address to Apple... yet they've done absolutely nothing to address the problem.

Several weeks ago I called Apple support to see if they could offer any help. The service rep seemed willing to help and even more eager after I provided the above link. He put me on hold and talked to his supervisor about the issue. After several minutes, he returned to tell me that Apple doesn't control the spam filtering or the email service, and there's nothing he or anyone else can do. I just have to live with it. Really! Then he explained how to add mail rules, which are useless because the spammer's domain changes several times a day. Isn't Apple's new datacenter supposed to run iCloud? Are they really outsourcing this stuff?

I don't mean to sound jaded, but my trust in Apple has dwindled in light of their awful iCloud support, among other antics (patent stupidity, for one). I don't know how they can claim to compete with cloud services if they aren't willing to listen to their users and implement one of the most basic features, decent spam filtering. How many thousands of messages does it really take?