I wanted to know if this website is real

Read the following two links, as background for the sorts of scams and spam that’s around >

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Identify legitimate emails from the App Store or iTunes Store - Apple Support

Those two links will give you a foundation of many types of scams that are endemic, and how to recognize some of those scams.

That written… This mail message looks like some Apple advertising

The c.apple.com domain is an Apple domain. Whether it’s spoofed or not, I can’t tell from what’s been posted here.

This mail message does look like the usual sort of Apple App Store advertising mailed out from Apple when the user doesn’t have their Apple advertising messages settings disabled. Disable and uncheck your Apple advertising preferences, and it’ll go away.

Two more links, for controlling your advertising preferences >

Manage emails about Apple and Apple services - Apple Support

Control personalized ads on the App Store, Apple News, and Stocks - Apple Support

As I said, I cannot read anything on that screenshot. And, just because there is a link ending with apple.com on the upper right, does not mean it will go to Apple. Scammers use software to re-direct you - you may think you are on an Apple website, but you are not.

Since I can't read anything, I would say it is from a scammer.

If you want, yes, change passwords just to be sure.

If you post a live link to a questionable website or email address, it will be removed by the moderators to keep people safe.

Did the email tell you that you had 8000 viruses on your device or wanted any private information? Never click on any link unless you know where it is going or what it is. As long as you did not give them any private info, you are fine. And, Apple will never send you such an email.

As I said: Apple does not send emails unless you have a repair going on. So it was NOT an Apple link.

And it's not a hack; it's probably a crook trying to scam you to give them information so they can steal from you.

Edit: But we are in the US and I do not understand the language in the screenshot you just now added. However, it could be an ad from Apple. Did you subscribe to advertisements?

That is almost certainly a legitimate e-mail from Apple. Unfortunately, it is extremely common for companies, even "security focused" ones like Apple to send out unsolicited e-mails that are identical to phishing e-mails - ticking off every single last "red flag" phishing indicator - but are completely legitimate. It would be easier to tell if this wasn't a partial screen shot and wasn't in Hebrew, but it is probably just a marketing e-mail from Apple.

It isn't, "Reggie", so I guess you are even with Apple on the typos. Your bitterness if fairly obvious.

From a domain that is c.apple.com? And I haven't had a marketing email from Apple to a link to the App Store in like...ever.

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It isn't, "Reggie", so I guess you are even with Apple on the typos. Your bitterness if fairly obvious.

Sorry about the typo. I was trying to avoid two separate replies and manually added that part. I distinctly remember typing "deggie wrote:". The fingers sometimes have a mind of their own.

I don't know why you would attribute any of that to bitterness. Frustration, definitely. Apple is better than most companies in this respect. But the truth is that phishing is never going away. Legitimate companies will continue to send out e-mails saying "click here to update your account". And people will continue a futile effort to teach others how to differentiate the two.

What do you not understand?

Do you think that email address (the only thing I could make out in the upper right corner) is a legit email address? I was not sure especially since it could be but be re-directed to a scam site.