Cylonatreides
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Q: Phishing Email 28/11/2012

Good Afternoon Folks

 

I Downloaded "Galaxy on Fire 2 HD" on my new I-Pad Mini from the App Store today and almost immediatly received the following E-mail

 

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Dear Xxxx Xxxxxx,


Your Apple ID, Xxxx.Xxxxxx@Xxxxxxxxxx.com, was just used to purchase Gift Certificate for [?] from the iTunes Store on a computer or device that had not previously been associated with that Apple ID.


If you made this purchase, you can disregard this e-mail. It was only sent to alert you in case you did not make the purchase yourself.


If you did not make this purchase, we recommend that you go toiforgot.apple.com to change your password, then see Apple ID: Tips for protecting the security of your account for further assistance.


Regards,

Apple

 

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Obviously i have removed my name and E-mail address from the e-mail, But the senders address read as *do_not_reply@apple.com*, after much searching on the Internet and reading through other peoples support posts I cant seem to find an E-Mail address to forward this Phishy E-mail to!, i assume and hope that apple take this kind of thing seriously and if so they should at least be working toward making their account facilities a lot safer than it is at the moment. I am sadly too aware of the these type of E-mails that attempt to get us to freely hand over our account details or address etc but the fact that this e-mail was sent to my account within seconds of me downloading an App directly from the App-Store is quite alarming as i thought such a Company like Apple would have account security as Tight as a drum!, i also without proof i wont be slinging any dirt towards Fish Labs who made Galaxy on Fire 2 HD as I've owned the non HD version for a while and never had this happen before. So if anyone knows of the legitimate contact e-mail address for the extremely hard to find the *Apple Phishing E-Mail Fraud Division* or whatever it's called please reply to me and I'll happily forward my Phishy Correspondence to them.

 

Thank's for Reading.

iPad, iOS 6.0.1

Posted on Nov 28, 2012 7:19 AM

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  • by Summer Joy,

    Summer Joy Summer Joy Nov 28, 2012 7:25 AM in response to Cylonatreides
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    Nov 28, 2012 7:25 AM in response to Cylonatreides

    Hello Cylonatreides,

     

    I recently had the same occur after purchasing music from the iTunes Store.  Upon checking with Apple, I was advised that this was a legitimate email.  The http://iforgot.apple.com site is truly where you can reset your password.

     

    <3, SJ

  • by Cylonatreides,

    Cylonatreides Cylonatreides Nov 28, 2012 7:38 AM in response to Summer Joy
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    Nov 28, 2012 7:38 AM in response to Summer Joy

    Thx for the info, I did Reset my password straight after I got the e-mail just to be safe through i-tunes itself on my PC. But as you can see it says i apparently bought a gift certificate which i didn't i bought a game, but I'd love to able to forward this e-mail on to Apple so they can at least try and figure out where it came from and how it got actively sent to my e-mail address that's registered with apple due to my action of buying an app in their app store. none of my apple products are Jail-broken so this whole affair is rather strange to me, I've received my fair share of Phishing emails in the past but all of them have been randomly timed inbound communications but never like this.