I have recently been inundated by spam on an email account that I cannot shut down because it’s too central to my household.
Unfortunately, the more I use the BLOCK this sender, or MOVE to junk, the MORE spam I get. In fact, up to 50+ daily.
Apple Care+ had no recommendations but to refer me to the App Store, in which every spam blocking app has worse reviews than the last, or costs monthly fees.
Any suggestions?
iPad Pro, iPadOS 14
Welcome to the club. Spammers are very smart and have learned how to get around Spam filters in email apps. I tried blocking and marking as Junk, nothing works. My Yahoo email account is the worst. My iCloud email account is the best and my Gmail account is somewhere between. If you take a close look at the spam you see that the actual email being sent changes with every sent spam. Junk filters never get the same thing twice. Much of the spam has the usual option to unsubscribe but if you click on that it only confirms to the spammer that your email address is active and being read. Then it gets worse because your active email address is sold to on the black market to other spammers.
Now, you can lock down your email by only letting emails from your contacts or previous recipients come through but you risk sending something important to the junk folder.
For some users email has become useless as a communication service because of spamming. Text message services like iMessage are also coming under assault from spammers.
Welcome to the club. Spammers are very smart and have learned how to get around Spam filters in email apps. I tried blocking and marking as Junk, nothing works. My Yahoo email account is the worst. My iCloud email account is the best and my Gmail account is somewhere between. If you take a close look at the spam you see that the actual email being sent changes with every sent spam. Junk filters never get the same thing twice. Much of the spam has the usual option to unsubscribe but if you click on that it only confirms to the spammer that your email address is active and being read. Then it gets worse because your active email address is sold to on the black market to other spammers.
Now, you can lock down your email by only letting emails from your contacts or previous recipients come through but you risk sending something important to the junk folder.
For some users email has become useless as a communication service because of spamming. Text message services like iMessage are also coming under assault from spammers.
Thank you! The offending account is Hotmail. My other email accounts do not receive spam. I have tried to determine how to lock out unknown senders, but haven’t been successful yet.
I appreciate your response! Any other suggestions you have would be most helpful, though it seems like a fairly common and mostly unsolvable issue. I’ll keep trying, though!
DROWNING IN SPAM.
