Are Apple spam filters are breaking down?

Jefferis Peterson wrote:

I am suddenly receiving a lot more spam breaking through apple's filters. I assume Apple has some global blocking options? They are short messages with an image offering stuff like TV rewards and such other junk. I have been reporting them to apple and blocking their addresses, but they still come through though they go to a spam folder if I have blocked them. Anyway, a lot of them have a similar format, though the email source senders are all sorts of addresses.

Does reporting them to spam@icloud.com do any good? Or help Apple update their filters?

Is that your only account ie @icloud.com (?)

100’s of Spam in Mail

https://www.windowscentral.com/software-apps/microsoft-outlook-spam-filter-seemingly-shut-off-for-many

The below will not cut down on Spam e-mails nor will it eliminate Spam e-mails.

Though, it may present some insights as to how exposed your e-mail address may be to Bad Actor Spammers.

E-mail addresses are Bought and Sold on the internet for various reasons including Sold to Spammers.

That is how they make their money.

I have done some testing on some personal e-mail addresses as well as on family members e-mail addresses 

Was floored by the results.

Some were exposed by Data Breaches from some will Known Software Developers and even from my Own ISP.

You can only mitigate your exposure in the future and deal wth this Spam as an “ After to Fact  “ situation

https://haveibeenpwned.com

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2021/05/have-i-been-pwnd-what-is-it-and-what-to-do-when-you-are-pwned

Jefferis Peterson wrote:

I have been reporting them to apple and blocking their addresses

That's a waste of your time, money, and storage. Think of it this way, even though it may only take 50-60 bytes to store an e-mail address in a block list, eventually, you will run out of storage. But spammers literally have an infinite number of new e-mail addresses they can create. This is a fight you can never win.

Does reporting them to spam@icloud.com do any good?

No.

Or help Apple update their filters?

It's not your job to keep Apple's spam filters up-to-date and functional. If it were, then obviously you are slacking off. 😄

Either Apple will fix their spam filters eventually, or they won't. If the latter, then spam will greatly increase once the spammers know the filter is down. Then you'll have to make a decision. How much are you paying for this e-mail service? How much money would Apple lose if you took your business elsewhere? Or would your loss of business actually reduce the spam and message load on Apple, thereby saving them money? So what's Apple's incentive?

But that's all just speculation. I can tell you that I pay a small monthly fee for Office 365 e-mail. I get my own domain name and top-shelf, genuine Microsoft Exchange. I just did a test the other day and determined that Microsoft blocks 94% of my spam with 97% efficiency.