Is my Apple ID locked?

• Apple does not send such messages. 
• Apple would not warn of a pending account issue, giving you a deadline to fix the issue. 
• Apple does not include document, or PDF files to download.
• Apple would not refer to you as Dear Customer, Dear Client, or anything other than the name on file for your account.
• Apple would not have such horrible spelling or grammar. 
• Apple would not send a message to “Undisclosed Recipients”. 

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.

reportphishing@apple.com

The links below has information to help identify fraudulent emails.

Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204759

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.

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.

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.

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.