Unsolicited explicit spam email to an iCloud email address

I've been getting explicit spam email to my iCloud email address from a site in the USA for over a month. And no I haven't signed up for something and am not admitting it............and I'm in Australia so any "benefits" of the site are a long way away.
I've tried contacting the sender but because I've never used the iCloud account (my email is a me.com account) it's being rejected.
How can I delete the iCloud side of my without affecting the me.com email address ?
I believe that the iCloud user name may well exist with someone else in the USA because I've been told that is possible - anyone else know this ?
Any advice welcome...it's ceased being funny.

If it's always from the same sender, set up an email rule on icloud.com to send email from the sender to the trash. This explains how to set up an email rule: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mm6b1a3f8a.

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Cannot forward SPAM email to sender

I receive a spam email and try to send it to either the sender or some organization to deal with. Verizon won't send it telling me it's spam, which I know. So I try to cut the image out and paste it in another email. Welll Verizon somehow knows what I've done and refuses to send that too.
Why and how do I get it to stop so I can forward the email for the company to deal with?

They let you send it to
[email protected] Which gets it to their suport team (third party last I heard)
and
[email protected] The government site
Perhaps a few others but in general since its spam they don't know that you aren't the spammer or just making a mistake and forwardint the spam to someone else to also get spammed/phished etc.
The real sender is just waiting for you to reply. So you don't want to send or reply to them. If you really think the company/etc that the spammer is pretending to be needs to see it, you can sometimes zip up a copy and send it to their Abuse/spam email address.

I received a spam message from my iCloud email to my hotmail account - what gives?

So I have my Hotmail email and iCloud (@me.com) account on my iPhone. Suddenly today, I received an email from my @me.com account - to my Hotmail account - this is very odd as I rarely-to-never use my iCloud email account. So I have a feeling either A. it was a genuine security breach or B. it's some weird hoax.
Yes, I know many people spam with names that look similar etc - but I've checked the message headers - and they appear like a legitimate message. Also, I replied to the message - and received it in my @me.com account. I'm not some n00b who calls the help desk - but was wondering if anyone else had this issue today...
I've included the message header below - *note that I've replaced my real email address with 'main_user'
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Authentication-Results: hotmail.com; sender-id=pass (sender IP is 17.158.161.9) [email protected]; dkim=none header.d=me.com; x-hmca=pass
X-SID-PRA: [email protected]
X-SID-Result: Pass
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X-Message-Status: n:0:n
X-AUTH-Result: PASS
X-Message-Delivery: Vj0xLjE7dXM9MDtsPTE7YT0xO0Q9MTtHRD0xO1NDTD0w
X-Message-Info: NhFq/7gR1vRjUmbB+D0yqAkLsNaqWYoPZC+kT1p39YSm427nLMzOn27OajnAnounhvDMEvDB3BxOswC Q5ARMIJZpm6vNY6QFEeAiv0RCxttwFBeH3Jz380eNc/Wmov/uQK3yFnMXSDftfv8M3KMoxg==
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Also, I have same problem.
In my case, I received a spam message from my iCloud to other people. They r in my iCloud contact.
my sent box isuue.
case 1:
sent date:
5-16-2012 15:15
subject:
Re:
body:
Earn extra cash in your spare time!
case 2:
sent date:
5-16-2012 15:15
subject:
Re:9
body:
Start making money immediately without risk - from the comfort of your home
case 3:
sent date:
5-16-2012 15:15
subject:
(none)
body:
Step by Step How You Can Work From Home
case 4:
sent date:
5-16-2012 15:15
subject:
Re:f
body:
Get Back Some Financial Independence Into Your Life.
Now, I've just changed my password immediately.
Should I call to Apple suport center?
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TS3899 How do I send a "spam" email as an attachment to iCloud using my iPad or iPhone

ICloud directs you to send spam email as an attachment in an email to [email protected] I have no problem doing that on my MacBook Pro but cannot find "message=>forward As Attachment" from the menu bar on my iPhone or iPad. Can anyone direct me?

That only forwards the email exactly as you see it in letter form. icloud wants it sent as an attachment to an email. Thanks for answering me.

HT4759 I'm getting a lot of spam in my icloud account and would like to change my icloud email address, how can I do this?

After having a mac.com email for nearly 10 years I fell for a scam email and now am getting spammed daily in my email account. I use this email account for everything and would like to either block the spam emails - although that's hard since they change their email address daily - or just get a new icloud email address. I've researched this and have not found this easy. Any suggestions on how to change my icloud email account? Keep in mind all my devices are connected through this email including iTunes. Any help is appreciated - thanks!

To get a new iCloud address you would have to create a new iCloud account and migrate your iCloud data to the new account. If you want to do this, go to Settings>iCloud and tap Delete Account, and when prompted about what to do with the iCloud data choose Keep on [My iDevice]. Then set up a new iCloud account with a new ID, turn you iCloud data syncing back to On, and when prompted choose Merge to upload your data to the new account. When you turn Mail to On you will get a new @icloud email address (@mac and @me addresses are no longer available). Once your data is in the new account, you can just delete the old account from your other devices without saving the data on the device, then sign into the new one and the migrated data in the new account will be synced back to them.
If you need to, you can change your iTunes ID to this new email address. This guide explains how to change an Apple ID name, but you can follow this and edit the primary email address instead to change it: http://support.apple.com/kb/HE40.

Icloud email acct gets nothing but spam email all day?

Hello,
In the last 2 months my @me or icloud acct gets spam all day long. I try to forward to [email protected] to get rid of it but it didn't help. Also all my ringtones I buy just disappear never to be seen again. When i try to buy the same ringtone for the second time it informs me I have already purchased it once. But where is it at?Its not in my Itunes or on my iphone. I even have itunes match for what I don't know. Can someone please help me figure out what happen to my @me.com email that gets spam 24/7 and my ringtones where they go?
Thanks,Suzanne

I have 5 email addresses..... and, FWIW, I only post when I think I can help.
I use one - my "real" address which is with my ISP - for friends only and guard it. No business gets that address, just as they wouldn't get my phone number - ever.
The others - all web based addresses (Yahoo, Gmail, etc), I use for a) one for all things Apple, b) one for online orders, c) anywhere where I'm forced to supply an address and a group I participate in and d) one where I think it'll probably be junk.
Personally, I prefer not to have them all linked; however, it is easily done by configuring Mail to fetch your Yahoo, Gmail, etc mail.
The only people that receive a "changed my address" email are my friends and I would have to change it with Apple of course and any business that I am in contact with regularly; other than that, I don't subscribe to anything (no time to read it) and see no reason to change an email address at an online store for instance until/if/when I actually place another order there. In the meantime, their ads (I consider it spam) won't reach me, thank goodness.

HT4899 Is there a way I can delete my primary @me email address so that I can receive emails only via my "reserved" @icloud address. The reason being, I receive a fair bit of spam to my @me address. Going forward I plan on using an alias for certain websi

Is there a way I can delete my primary @me email address so that I can receive emails only via my "reserved" @icloud address. eg. delete "msjones@me" and receive emails via "msjones@icloud" only.The reason being, I receive a fair bit of spam to my @me address. Going forward I plan on using an alias for certain websites to minimise this problem.

You can't delete the address, but you can set up a Rule to move messages to that address to the Trash or another folder. Go to http://icloud.com and go to the Mail page, click the cogwheel icon at top right and choose 'Rules'.
It's a bad idea to post your email address - it's an invitation to spam - even though in fact you haven't posted them in full; I've asked the hosts to remove them.

HT4899 I have NEVER used my icloud email address and am now getting spam mail to services I have NEVER signed up to. Should I conclude from this that Apple have sold my details on?

I have NEVER used my icloud email address and am now getting spam mail to services I have NEVER signed up to. Should I conclude from this that Apple have sold my details on?
To tell me to mark it as spam is just not good enough. I do not want this rubbish cluttering my inbox.

Nobody want to receive spam, but it's a fact of life. Apple is certainly not selling your address on to spammers, and it's possible that the spammer has been guessing at possible addresses and has hit on yours.
A good third-party program for dealing with spam is SpamSieve - after a training period it's very good at identifying spam and shunting it to a Spam folder where you can check it and delete at your leisure. It works with iCloud.

SPAM to my unused iCloud email.

I've started receiving SPAM to my iCloud email despite this address never being used. Before this week I've only ever received emails from Apple/iTunes. I'm certain that I haven't given away my address and its not one that could be assumed to be in use. So have Apple had a security breach?

Hi Julian,
I disagree as this spam also came to an alias of my mac.com email address and this is a pretty unusual and weired combination of characters combined with underscore and such. I also disagree for the reasons that my wife has received spam the same day and her last name is nothing you would guess or come across running a nice randomizer.
There is something going on which is beyond brute force guessing and I'd like to know, what!
I agree with Russellmilne
thanks

My icloud and Apple ID aren't the same email address. My phone wont let me change my icloud email. I don't know the password to my icloud account, and every time I try to email myself the password, it doesn't go through.

My icloud and Apple ID aren't the same email address. My phone wont let me change my icloud email. I don't know the password to my icloud account, and every time I try to email myself the password, it doesn't go through.

Welcome to the Apple Community.
Your Apple ID and iCloud email address don't need to be the same, you can't change an iCloud email address.
Also check your Mail rules and filtering, the verification mail may be going to a junk folder or even being deleted altogether. You may also wish to contact your mail provider to see if their spam filters are removing the email before it gets to you.

How do u delete iCloud account or CHANGE the email address?

Long story short, I ended up having to restore to factory settings my iphone. I had planned on restoring one of the backups that I had done through iTunes. (Yes, I now know to backup through iCloud so please do NOT suggest that -.-) but it kept telling me that there was a threat detected in the backup file??? So skipped it. And tried again. Didn't work. Got same msg about the threat. So I ended up healing the threat and then it told me that it couldn't restor the backup because a file was either missing or corrupted. I'm like..***!!! Ughness.
So now I'm trying to set it up so that I can back it up via iCloud so that this stupid issue doens't occur again, but my old @rogers.com email address is the iCloud email addres and I'm trying to change it in the iPhone to my @bell.net email address. I have changed it in itunes. It's working there...but my stupid iPhone keeps asking me for the password on the Apple ID that has the @rogers.com email address. THAT IS NOT THE EMAIL ADDRESS THAT IS SET UP IN MY APPLE ID! I have already set up the new one....which is the @bell.net one but for some stupid reason, iCloud keeps wanting the @rogers.com one...and whenever I enter it, it's not correct because that email address has been removed.
Can someone PLEASE help me.
Thanks
Rose

You can't actually terminate an iCloud account, though obviously you can simply log out of it on all your devices and then ignore it in future.
I gather that the @icloud.com address is also the actual ID? You can't change that. However if your Apple ID that you use to log into iCloud is a non-Apple email address you can change that - please follow carefully the instructions here:
http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/icloudfaq2.html#6
If it's this non-Apple address which is compromised then changing the ID will solve that. If it's the @icloud.com address which is compromised then you cannot change that though you can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.) (New aliases can only be @icloud.com ones; @me.com addresses cannot now be created.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account or move it to another account.
More information on aliases here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a
However if you add an alias the original address will still function, so if you are getting a lot of spam it will still arrive.
You can get a completely new iCloud account simply by creating a new Apple ID at http://appleid.apple.com , for which you will need a new non-Apple address which has never been associated with an Apple ID.
You will need to sign out of the old account on all your devices and sign in with the new ID.
If none of this solves the problem and it is a security issue, go to https://getsupport.apple.com ; click 'See all products and services', then 'More Products and Services, then 'Apple ID', then 'Other Apple ID Topics' then 'Apple ID account Security'.

Is remedial action needed if you click a link in an unsolicited 'scam-looking' email and the link went 404?

Mac Mini 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo; 2GB memory; OS X 10.6.8. Incident occurred while using Firefox 35.0.
The latest/most current discussions I can find are from 2013 or older. Assuming more than a year is plenty of time for "new" malware or even "virus" that can affect Macs to be developed and distributed, I can either assume that "no news is good news"-- 'no new malware/virus possibilities' for Mac, or swallow my pride and ask the question: Is there any malware or other harmful/malicious computer code--read, something that could steal my identity if/when I do my taxes online this year--currently known to be a threat to home non-business Mac computers?
I ask because I committed the sin of all sins.....I got an unusual email from a vendor from whom I made one purchase (on ebay, a few months ago), asking me to loan "him" a sizable amount of money so he could "pay his hotel and retrieve his passport" while stranded in a foreign country. A very clear and not particularly uncommon scam method.....another flavor of the "grandma I'm in jail in Mexico" scam......and I'm one who constantly wonders how in the world people continue to allow themselves to get scammed (in my head when reading of other people doing it) by clicking on a link OR opening an 'attachment' in an unsolicited email. It wasn't tagged as "spam" by my ISP's very-good spam filters.....it was in my normal inbox; and, it was from a vendor I've done business with.
There was no attachment, but there was a link; I hovered the cursor over it; the lower left of my monitor showed the link exactly the same as it appeared on the page. I figured, well, it seems to be to the correct URL (knowing the seller's web address outside of ebay because I had visited it before finding he sold the same items on ebay). So, I clicked the link. Without a second thought. There was no other 'contact info' in the body of the email, so I thought the link looks authentic so I'll just go see if there's any information there about the owner being out of the country or ????.
The link took me to a Google "404" not found page. It was only there that I noticed the URL/link had an added letter; a stupid lack of attention on my part. The site could not be found because the URL was misspelled. I still was blissfully unaware that I violated my own rule (not to click links or attachments in unexpected email from entities I don't know or aren't currently transacting with). So I just closed the window and forgot about it.
It was only on waking this morning that I realized what I did.....and started worrying that I may have been directed to a phony "404" page that, without any further action on my part needed, might have contained something malicious that could be passed to anyone who connected to the page. I don't even know if that's possible, and I have so far not seen any unusual activity on the computer. But soon I will want to file my tax return....and I worry about the timing of this unusual-possible-scam email and the beginning of "tax time" here in the states?
So, in summary: Should I be worried that I fell for some new (since 2013) method of unknowingly downloading malicious software to my Mac? If so, what should I do now?

I don't even know if that's possible, and I have so far not seen any unusual activity on the computer.
No, it's not even remotely possible. What you encountered was an attempt to scam you, and a pathetic one at that.
Identity theft in general is a significant threat to any computer (a term encompassing Macs, PCs, iPads, iPhones...) user. However, that threat most commonly arises in the form of "phishing" and you didn't play along with it. The likely reason the email appeared to have come from one of your previous eBay vendors is that his email address was harvested using any number of methods. The email probably didn't even originate with him. eBay is a rich source for obtaining such information.
eBay has a fairly helpful guide on the subject: http://pages.ebay.com/help/account/recognizing-spoof.html
To answer your specific questions:
Is there any malware or other harmful/malicious computer code--read, something that could steal my identity if/when I do my taxes online this year--currently known to be a threat to home non-business Mac computers?
No.
So, in summary: Should I be worried that I fell for some new (since 2013) method of unknowingly downloading malicious software to my Mac?
No — although Mac-targeted adware has arisen since that time and is a rapidly growing annoyance that can make using your Mac practically impossible, it will not directly cause information theft as you have described it concerns you. Furthermore, it requires your participation to install it in the form of an Admin name and password — and it requires deception to convince you to supply those credentials. Learn more about how that happens here: How to install adware.

Can I add an Icloud email address, if I already have one?

Can I add an Icloud email address, if I already have one? I would like to have two different email addresses for personal use, on Icloud.

You can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account or move it to another account.
More information on aliases here: http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

I want to add my kids to my icloud account how do i create them email addresses under my account?

I have an icloud account and an apple ID.
I want to create two new email addresses that my kids can use, but that are controlled under or by my account.
Somehow i've managed to create one new icloud email address, but can add another and can't see the one i've created in "manager my account"
Any help greatfully recieved.
Thanks
Rich

You can add up to three 'email aliases' - these are additional addresses (not accounts) which deliver into the same inbox as the main account. (In fact it's a good idea to give out alias addresses, rather than the main address, because if they attract spam you can easily change them.)
You should be aware before you start that once you've created an alias you cannot turn that address into a full iCloud account, move it to another account, or reactivate it if you delete it. This means that if you created aliases for your kids they will not be able to retain the addresses when they grow up and have their own accounts. Also note that though this means you can read their mail, it also means that they can read yours.
More information on aliases here:
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#mm6b1a490a

How can I get my email address by my iCloud accountant with the name is now an own icloud account without the possibility to get iCloud storage

I have a email address . It is not possible to buy icloud storage for it or to add to my first account where i have plenty of icloud storage available.
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It's a really bad idea to post your email address - it's an invitation to spam - and I've asked the Hosts to remove it.
If you have a (name)@me.com address which actually works then you have a (name)@icloud.com address as well, and and iCloud account. There should be no problem adding storage to it as long as you are signed into it as the primary account in System Preferences>iCloud on a Lion/Mountain Lion Mac, and iOS5/6 device or Windows 7/8 with the iCloud Control Panel.
If this is an ex_MobileMe address which you never migrated to iCloud you cannot reactivate it, so the question is have you checked it actually receives messages?
You cannot move such addresses from one account to another.

Unsolicited explicit spam email to an iCloud email address

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