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User profile for user: ShefGirl2183
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Your Apple ID will be locked by our security team.

I received a text message from a phone number: 1(813)856-***4 saying:


--->Your Apple-ID will be locked by our security team. You have to provide some additional information about your Apple-ID:

I did not include the entire weblink I received just incase someone clicks it and a virus is added.


I plan to delete the text and email. I am just curious about how to possibly block these emails/texts. I also received a PayPal scam email a few minutes before that. When I opened that email, then I got the text.


Thanks for any help that can be given.




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Posted on Feb 15, 2021 11:35 AM

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User profile for user: lobsterghost1
lobsterghost1
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Posted on Feb 15, 2021 11:38 AM

It's a scam. Block the number and delete it. Apple will NEVER communicate such a message to you this way. EVER.


See this link about Phishing Scams --> Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

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