Dramatic increase in spam

Usually I get no spam whatsoever on my iCloud email address but once in a while there'll be a flurry. Previously I've put up with it for a couple of days and then it's suddenly stopped again: I've assumed Apple's done something with its spam filters and I have silently thanked Apple very much.
But the current flurry is worse and lasting longer: I'm getting several spam messages an hour. What feels particularly galling is that the spam is always very similar, very recognisable: the sender and subject headings have odd underlines and spacing. So I imagined it was a fairly easy job to block them but we're about a month into this now and there's no sign of it stopping.
Apple recommends that you forward the spam as an attachment to [email protected] and, I've just checked, I've now done this 33 times. I'm surprised its so few but I didn't know about spam@ for a time and I get most of these messages when I'm on my iPhone and it's quicker to just delete the things. I'd reckon I've had double that number in total.
So I appreciate that these are not Hotmail-level numbers of spam but somehow it's even more annoying when the account is usually free of them.
It's not as if I've given out my email address anywhere new or to anyone new so I don't think I've triggered this. So is everyone getting this? And do you know if [email protected] works or is there something else I can do?
Thanks,
William

Report the spam to Apple according to directions in this Apple document: iCloud: Why am I getting junk mail (spam)?
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When you read spam notification is sent to the spammer that you have read the email and you then get bombarded by spam.
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Thanks both for the quick replies.
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