Billing issues

That looks the same. The “https” bit had me thinking for a while, but not long enough to click on it. As a rule of thumb, I never click on a link in an SMS, and if anybody at all sends me a communication with a link, I bypass that and go direct to that company website.

Trust nothing online, even me, but especially opinions.

I just received the same SMS. I never trust messages telling me things like that, so I looked into The iTunes Store and bought an album. Guess what, no problems.

Was your link "https://apple.com.paid.apps.services/" - looks dodgy to me. Didn't select it just in case.

I have received the same txt message... Not sure