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Increase in iCloud Junk Email

Maclver

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Has anyone noticed a massive increase in junk e-mail received on iCloud? I always forward the junk as an attachment to spam@icloud.com and delete the messages. But i have gotten 131 in just under 48 hours!!! I have had my @Mac email for several years and wish I could change my email address, but Apple doesn’t make it possible to change email addresses (unless I’m missing something)

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I was just speaking about this in another thread. I do not feel the issue remains with just iCloud, but, email in general.
Lately, I have stopped doing the unsubscribe process. Soon, I am going to set my account(s), to only allow emails from my Contacts/Vendors to my Inbox. Everything else, to Spam/Junk...
 
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circatee said:
I was just speaking about this in another thread. I do not feel the issue remains with just iCloud, but, email in general.
Lately, I have stopped doing the unsubscribe process. Soon, I am going to set my account(s), to only allow emails from my Contacts/Vendors to my Inbox. Everything else, to Spam/Junk...
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It’s getting ridiculous! Normally I’d like get 1 or 2 a week. I have checked my email address against “haveibeenpwned” and nothing new has shown up.
 
I have seen the same over the last week or so, all sent from domains of the form *.reg.ru. It would seem to be simple for these to be blocked at the server level but nobody seems to be doing that for some reason. I think eventually everyone (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) will do just that, but in the meantime it’s quite annoying.
 
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rodjam said:
I have seen the same over the last week or so, all sent from domains of the form *.reg.ru. It would seem to be simple for these to be blocked at the server level but nobody seems to be doing that for some reason. I think eventually everyone (Apple, Google, Microsoft, etc.) will do just that, but in the meantime it’s quite annoying.
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Yes! I just looked. Literally all of mine had the domain of reg.ru
 
Maclver said:
It’s getting ridiculous! Normally I’d like get 1 or 2 a week. I have checked my email address against “haveibeenpwned” and nothing new has shown up.
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Interesting. One of my email addresses is on 'pwned'. But, I have so many other security features in place, not sure am that worried at the moment...
 
Maclver said:
Has anyone noticed a massive increase in junk e-mail received on iCloud? I always forward the junk as an attachment to spam@icloud.com and delete the messages. But i have gotten 131 in just under 48 hours!!! I have had my @Mac email for several years and wish I could change my email address, but Apple doesn’t make it possible to change email addresses (unless I’m missing something)
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Definitely noticed an increase… towards the end of this year.

But then again my primary email address was involved in a couple of data breaches: Yea, thanks Adobe! DropBox!

I keep sending stuff to the Junk folder on Mac Mail, but seems Mac Mail (like dear old Siri is a slow learner.)
 
Wow that’s some annoying tons of emails some of you are getting. Just checked and the spam count on mine is pretty low still.
 
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Do you need the * before the domain when setup in Mac Mail.
The Rules I have setup are 'ends with .fr' (for French emails) etc, with no asterix.

They are set to delete, but are only moved to Junk.
 
I've used iCloud for e-mail for something like 15 years. But my address has always be iCloud.com, not mac.com. I'm also on Monterey, so maybe that is significant? Have not seen any increase in spam recently, I get almost none. Just looked at my Junk folder and the only things in there are from companies where I created accounts and later added them to Junk. So perhaps this is related to the kinds of websites you visit?

When I do get spam, I never forward any attachments, I simply move the message to the Junk folder. I was under the impression that this is all that's needed to block future e-mails and it always seems to work for me.
 
MarkC426 said:
Do you need the * before the domain when setup in Mac Mail.
The Rules I have setup are 'ends with .fr' (for French emails) etc, with no asterix.

They are set to delete, but are only moved to Junk.
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You don't need the * wildcard if you have it setup with ends with.

Boyd01 said:
When I do get spam, I never forward any attachments, I simply move the message to the Junk folder. I was under the impression that this is all that's needed to block future e-mails and it always seems to work for me.
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That will train your Mail apps junk filter and help, but that won't tell Apple it is spam. If you drag to the Junk Folder on icloud.com however it does tell Apple it is spam and helps tune their spam filters server side.

I always forward these to spam@icloud.com and it seems to help over time.
 
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Weaselboy said:
That will train your Mail apps junk filter and help, but that won't tell Apple it is spam.
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Thanks, that makes sense. In my case, what I'm doing is appropriate most of the time however. For example, I don't want to see all the junk that a big sporting goods company sends. But it's not really "spam" in a strict sense. They are a legitimate company and I setup an account there. I just don't want to see their e-mails.
 
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Oddly, a lot of my spam/junk lately, is from job agencies. But, when you read those emails, you can clearly see based on the job title offering, and the content, they have no idea what I do for a living. Ugh...!
 
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