Is my Apple ID locked?
I received a message from Apple support saying I am locked out or will be. I take pics of these messages also. Wha is going on?
iPad, iOS 13
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I received a message from Apple support saying I am locked out or will be. I take pics of these messages also. Wha is going on?
iPad, iOS 13
It is a phishing attempt. Do not respond. Do not divulge any personal or financial information. You can use the address below to forward the suspect email message, as an attachment to Apple.
The links below has information to help identify fraudulent emails.
Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store
It is a phishing attempt. Do not respond. Do not divulge any personal or financial information. You can use the address below to forward the suspect email message, as an attachment to Apple.
The links below has information to help identify fraudulent emails.
Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store
Start a new email addressed to the address above, then on the keyboard on the right side should be a paper clip. Tap that and select the scam email to make it an attachment. If you just forward the email, it may be rejected by the receiving server as spam.
All arriving email including that apparently from known contacts can and should be assumed to be a scam. This message you have received is a scam. Scammers will lie, cheat, misrepresent, attach malware, anything they can do to convince you to expose your credentials, or to infest your computer. This includes embedding actual passwords of yours in the messages, sourced from credentials dumps from server breaches. Welcome to the Internet.
Avoid phishing emails, fake 'virus' alerts, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
That link also includes the how-to-report-this-to-Apple info, for this particular scam. Forward—not attach—the entire message to the specified Apple phishing email address.
Eric Root wrote:
If you just forward the email, it may be rejected by the receiving server as spam.
I’d be really surprised if the Apple ReportPhishing email address had a spam-reject configuration. And to quote Apple (highlight added) “To report a suspicious email, forward the message to Apple with complete header information.”
I have read multiple posts where forwarded emails were rejected by the server. I have advised sending it as an attachment and have gotten some feedback that when the OP did that, it went through. ?????????????
The forwarded messages are being rejected by the Apple reportphishing address and server?
Thar’s worth a note to the Apple security folks, if that’s happening.
Either to fix the docs, or to fix the server.
Why is everyone messaging me?I thought I did what needed to be done. Ok I am contacting my lawyer in OKC. I have told him what was happening already. The scammers will be in trouble. It will be reported.
I don’t know who is legit on here anymore.
We’re not messaging you.
You likely have email notifications enabled here in your settings for the Apple communities, and are receiving replies to your posting.
As for catching and punishing the folks sending these scams and these messages, well, no. If there were technical means to do that, we would not be in this mess. The folks are all over the world, and routinely routing their connections through, for instance, malware-invested computers, through the mail services of folks with weak or known passwords, all sorts of obfuscations. And some folks are in countries where these sorts of shenanigans are at least tolerated.
Your lawyer will likely tell you this, too.
Well said MrHoffman. The responses to his question as long as Bimba54 has agreed to get all responses to it, Apple support, the legitimate Apple Support will send the emails. Thinking help is still needed. But it does seem unknown criminals are impersonating Apple Support in emails to trick getting
personal information. The issue is not this website. But the email or text being received via Bimba54’s device. Good luck Bimba54 unsubscribing to the post you set up.
This link is from apple support concerning this. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204106
If its phishing then no, you won’t get locked out. Just don’t click on any links in the text.
Not sure how to send attachment.
Is my Apple ID locked?