Number one cause are broken SD cards, as I mentioned in post 2. They can go bad and there are lots of fakes around.
Powersupply issues can also cause all sorts of problems. A very short voltage dip is enough to make the CPU perform wrong calculations, affect memory content etc - if it happens at the "right" time it can also corrupt filesystems, of course.
Those things are quite easy to check, use another SD card and another (official) RPi power supply.
Actual DRAM memory issues are extremely rare - most of the time power supply and/or excessive overclocking were the cause of memory corruption. LE ships with "memtester", you can use it if you suspect RAM issues.
EDIT: and of course incorrect shutdown (i.e. just pulling the plug) is also well known to trash filesystems - but I hope the OP isn't doing that ![]()
so long,
Hias