{"id":5266,"date":"2012-04-17T08:20:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=5266"},"modified":"2012-04-17T08:20:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T22:20:32","slug":"who-is-spamming-my-apple-itunes-email-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2012\/04\/who-is-spamming-my-apple-itunes-email-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Spamming My Apple iTunes Email Address?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spam.  We all hate it.<\/p>\n<p>When I created my Apple iTunes account, I created and used a specific email address &#8211; (not my main email account) &#8211; for use with the iTunes account.  I have only ever provided that email address to Apple in creating that account, and dealing with Apple services.<\/p>\n<p>So why has the following spam &#8211; (click image for larger view) &#8211; attempted to pass through my mail filters to this email account in recent days? <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Did Apple share my email address with spammers?  I would hope not, and would highly suspect this not to be the case.<\/p>\n<p>Is there an app on my iPhone that has gleaned the address from the phone, and reported it back to its creators?<\/p>\n<p>Far more likely.<\/p>\n<p>It would be interesting to see if others have experienced the same, as it seems Apple&#8217;s application vetting process might have missed this one.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have to look into this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spam. We all hate it. When I created my Apple iTunes account, I created and used a specific email address &#8211; (not my main email account) &#8211; for use with the iTunes account. I have only ever provided that email address to Apple in creating that account, and dealing with Apple services. So why has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,302,492],"class_list":["post-5266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-itunes","tag-spam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}