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I never get them. Don’t post your email anywhere online and be careful who you give your email out to.
I use Apple hide my email addresses for anything I have to give an email for a minor account. For example for my Taco Bell account to order food.
My default email address is Gmail. I find they have the best spam filtering.
For anything financial I have a separate paid email account. This helps prevent confusion when it comes to that. I don’t click links in emails but if I get one saying I need to verify anything about one of my accounts sent to my other email addresses I automatically know it’s a scam.
I use Apple hide my email addresses for anything I have to give an email for a minor account. For example for my Taco Bell account to order food.
My default email address is Gmail. I find they have the best spam filtering.
For anything financial I have a separate paid email account. This helps prevent confusion when it comes to that. I don’t click links in emails but if I get one saying I need to verify anything about one of my accounts sent to my other email addresses I automatically know it’s a scam.
Smells like a fishing scam to me. Typically, one does not follow up a "Final Notice" with 3 more emails. It's final, innit? F-I-N-A-L. Gawd, stupid scammers can't understand basic English.
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Yeah, I get these…repeatedly. Move to Junk, then delete when clearing Junk and Deleted. Very much all spam with nothing whatever to do with Apple’s iCloud.
Point is, these emails don’t look like an official email from Apple. There are too many colors. The fonts are too large and too thick. There are graphics. You will never find a graphic on an official Apple email, except for the Apple logo and maybe the logo of an app you just bought, but that’s it.
When bank tellers are taught how to recognize official money, they aren’t shown fake bills. They examine real bills very closely. The point is is to get so familiar with every part of the official bill that when a fake bill comes through, they can instantly spot it because some detail isn’t “right “.
The other thing I tell my clients is always to look at the email address and not the easily spoofable name that is to the left of the real email address. In this case, if it does not say “@apple.com“, it’s fake and a scam.
When bank tellers are taught how to recognize official money, they aren’t shown fake bills. They examine real bills very closely. The point is is to get so familiar with every part of the official bill that when a fake bill comes through, they can instantly spot it because some detail isn’t “right “.
The other thing I tell my clients is always to look at the email address and not the easily spoofable name that is to the left of the real email address. In this case, if it does not say “@apple.com“, it’s fake and a scam.
Found this site:
haveibeenpwned.com
I tried it out with my email addresses and yes, indeed, one account was recognised (had plenty of spam in in) - others were “0 data breaches” (which didn’t /never have Spam as well...
Obviously the spam infested account got a new password... I will see what happened...
Have I Been Pwned: Check if your email address has been exposed in a data breach
Have I Been Pwned allows you to check whether your email address has been exposed in a data breach.
haveibeenpwned.com
I tried it out with my email addresses and yes, indeed, one account was recognised (had plenty of spam in in) - others were “0 data breaches” (which didn’t /never have Spam as well...
Obviously the spam infested account got a new password... I will see what happened...
Late to the party on this...
I get only get a couple of spams a week on a Gmail email address compromised many years ago, but did a couple of things to eventually get rid of these spams for the most part. Took a while to get it to the current state.
Big one is to disable Load Remote Images in Mail app (and in email services' website, corresponding apps). Stops trackers from loading when one views the email. Stop the spammer from getting confirmation that your email is active/alive.
Obviously, never click on any unsubscribe links in spams. Again, confirms "we got a live one".
Turn off read receipts on email service and/or apps.
Since spammers share/sell their lists amongst their fellow vermin, eventually will start to show as "unread" across these lists so one eventually falls off.
Same goes for telemarketers/scam calls for me. These days, get almost no calls or texts. Silence Unknown Callers, no read receipts, call blocker app to block known spammers, telemarketers.
I get only get a couple of spams a week on a Gmail email address compromised many years ago, but did a couple of things to eventually get rid of these spams for the most part. Took a while to get it to the current state.
Big one is to disable Load Remote Images in Mail app (and in email services' website, corresponding apps). Stops trackers from loading when one views the email. Stop the spammer from getting confirmation that your email is active/alive.
Obviously, never click on any unsubscribe links in spams. Again, confirms "we got a live one".
Turn off read receipts on email service and/or apps.
Since spammers share/sell their lists amongst their fellow vermin, eventually will start to show as "unread" across these lists so one eventually falls off.
Same goes for telemarketers/scam calls for me. These days, get almost no calls or texts. Silence Unknown Callers, no read receipts, call blocker app to block known spammers, telemarketers.