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Phising or Scam

I have receive several emails to inform me that my iCloud account has been locked. I suspect it is phising, and would like to help alert others if it is indeed phising. Please help verify. Attached a snapshot of the email. Many thanks in advance

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 3:19 AM

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Absolutely it's a scam.


Real messages from Apple always address you by name, not 'Dear customer' or similar, and will come from the apple.com domain (though this can be forged).


Real messages from Apple are in grammatical English, not things like 'until we receive respond from you'.


And in any case Apple will never send you a message like this. If they ever have to lock your account for security reasons they won't contact you, they will wait for you to find out and contact them: and you will never be asked to 'verify' your account.


Obviously never follow links in this sort of email - or indeed in any email where you aren't completely sure of the sender (and that their address hasn't been forged).


You could forward this and similar emails to Apple as an email attachment, to reportphishing@apple.com

Posted on Dec 28, 2018 3:27 AM

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Dec 28, 2018 3:27 AM in response to saggerabbit

Absolutely it's a scam.


Real messages from Apple always address you by name, not 'Dear customer' or similar, and will come from the apple.com domain (though this can be forged).


Real messages from Apple are in grammatical English, not things like 'until we receive respond from you'.


And in any case Apple will never send you a message like this. If they ever have to lock your account for security reasons they won't contact you, they will wait for you to find out and contact them: and you will never be asked to 'verify' your account.


Obviously never follow links in this sort of email - or indeed in any email where you aren't completely sure of the sender (and that their address hasn't been forged).


You could forward this and similar emails to Apple as an email attachment, to reportphishing@apple.com

Phising or Scam

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