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Anyone else getting spam on icloud email?

I've recently begun getting spam to my iCloud email address. I would be less concerned about this if I had ever used my me.com or icloud.com address, but I havent. Its DrOz, promoting some health stuff... I've never had anything to do with them, and don't wish to start. I've sent the spam to junk, naturally, and hopefully all ensuing spams will go there.


Just curious if anyone else has received it/them. I've had more than one, but have just been deleting until today, when I took a closer look. The address it was sent to was "undisclosed@icloud.com" so I am assuming I'm not the only one, and some cleverdick has managed to breach icloud security.

Posted on Dec 26, 2012 10:19 AM

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Dec 28, 2012 8:24 PM in response to kyte

I'm getting the same. Never had a single spam email to any of my apple email addresses now since 25 December they're flooding in. I've been marking them as junk which I believe automatically notifies Apple although it would be nice if i could at least do this on the iPad. I also tried adding some rules in iCloud mail but its really basic so spammers will have no problem getting around this.


Bit of a worry.

Dec 29, 2012 11:13 AM in response to kyte

Freaky - just got an email to my iCloud account FROM my friends cell phone - a verizon text address - which they always use to communicate...they don't own a computer. It was for Meetup.com. The body was written like a scammer so I called and asked - nope - never sent it.


Interestingly, iCloud knew it was JUNK as that's where it was automatically filtered. Impressive seeing that the verizon cell phone text addres was identical to my friends...something I can't see must have made the system filter it. Yes, they have sent me web addresses before...for over a few years...never goes to Junk.


I did get the OZ email and also just got a call from a friend finding an email with my name attached to some Yahoo email account. So, something is up with Contacts I think. Regardless of things going to a SPAM folder...my concern is...how to kill it. Since this got really bad over Xmas I've decided to uncheck my Contacts into the iCloud feed and just keep the copy on my desktop until more solutions are found.

Dec 29, 2012 12:01 PM in response to sweetmud

sweetmud wrote:

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Since this got really bad over Xmas I've decided to uncheck my Contacts into the iCloud feed and just keep the copy on my desktop until more solutions are found.

What a good idea. Its so easy to have contacts syncing to the cloud... who knows if their addresses have been compromised too... I may do the same... but, fingers crossed, I haven't had any more spam mails, and nothing appearing to be from any of my contacts yet.

Anyone else getting spam on icloud email?

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