Apple Email Scams
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Apple email scams. Emails about your app store itunes store ibooks store or apple music purchases will never ask you to provide this information over email. And the best protection against phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links in email messages social media messages and text messages to sign. Scammers have also tried to use spoofed phone numbers which are displayed on your phone as a real apple number with apple s logo official website customer support number and actual address. Apple customers are being urged to show extreme caution following the discovery of a cunning email scam designed to steal confidential information such as your username and password.
The site features the apple logo and other graphics and formatting to make it look like the real apple website. At first glance the email appears to be an official apple receipt for a recent purchase. If you click the button a fraudulent website will load in your browser. Email scams targeting apple customers are rife but they re easy to spot if you know how.
Learn more about phishing and other scams. But in fact the email is a criminal ruse designed to steal your personal and financial information and apple did not send it. Recipients of the email voices claiming that they have ordered a product they did not and who have clicked on the link in them should change their apple password and contact apple support for help. Apple id scams have also gone beyond fishy emails and crossed over to the illegal business of scam phone calls.
An example of a fake apple itunes bill credit. Email scams targeting apple customers are rife but they re easy to spot if you know how. Please report suspicious emails and messages. Yet another phishing scam is targeting apple users.
If you forward a message from mail on your mac include the header information by selecting the message and choosing forward as attachment from the message menu. We ve got a handy guide on how to spy dodgy emails so you don t accidentally end up handing over.