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stat is not available everywhere. This may be an alternative:

$fromDir=/home/dirA
$toDir=/home/dirB
cd "$fromDir"
LANG=C ls -nl | # use POSIX locale for ls command...

#! /bin/bash

$fromDir=/home/dirA
$toDir=/home/dirB

for x in $fromDir/*
do
new=$(stat -c%y $x | awk -F'[ -]' '{print $3}')
mkdir $toDir/$new
cp $fromDir/$x $toDir/$new/
done

It would help to know what the command syntax that you are running to determine whether or not the file is spam, and more importantly if it indicates that it is spam via exit code, or message or some...