What does this email title mean?
Activation Lock is requesting your password on Anisa’s iPhone (iPhone 11 Pro Max).
i just got this email, the phone was lost on 26 December, 2021, Dubai.
does this mean someone found it and was trying to use the forgot password to get in the account?
iPhone 11 Pro Max
It is a scam attempting to get you to respond and log into a website that appears to be Apple but is not. If you respond they can then use your password to unlock your phone. If you responded, change your password: Change your Apple ID password - Apple Support
It is a scam attempting to get you to respond and log into a website that appears to be Apple but is not. If you respond they can then use your password to unlock your phone. If you responded, change your password: Change your Apple ID password - Apple Support
It’s a SCAM
It means that a criminal has the phone and is attempting to “crack into it” with information phished from the owner. (They obtained the phone number from the stolen SIM before it was deactivated by your carrier)
Do NOT follow any links it might contain.
Do NOT reply to it.
And ABSOLUTELY do NOT provide ANY personal info or AppleID info to these criminals.
Apple will not contact you.
The ONLY legitimate contact you SHOULD receive is via the means YOU provided on the screen when you set “lost mode” nearly a year ago.
Spoofing the return address on an e-mail is not much more difficult than placing a different return address on an envelope.
Tracing the sending location is not practical and is not part of the FindMy capability.
It’s also irrelevant; the phone is GONE.
You might take some satisfaction in knowing that the Activation Lock MUST be working - making the phone unusable - or else the theives would not bother contacting you.
Ahmedkamalpasha wrote:
And the email address is legit. It came from Find My. The link checks out.
It is a scam.
Activation Lock is never "requesting your password".
Activation Lock does not send emails.
It isn't difficult to make an email appear to be legitimate.
Who is "Find My"? That is not an Apple email address.
That is definitely not from Apple.
It wouldn't fool people if it didn't look real
I don't know how to say this more clearly -- Activation Lock doesn't request your password.
Also, to generate a reaction from Two-Factor Authentication you first need to enter your Apple ID & password.
Wow- that's quite the attempt! However, as many have enumerated, it's a scam and fake.
As for the email address- it's not legit, but it is close. You wrote that the email came from noreply@email.apple.com, which is close (but not the same as) to the real Apple email address noreply@apple.com.
And the email address is legit. It came from Find My. The link checks out.
understood. This was my wife’s phone. And no she did not click or approve anything. I just wanna know who can I contact to ask them where this email or attempt was pinged at? Like the location. Because right now it is showing as offline again.
noreply@email.apple.com
this is where the email came from.
Hmmm …
These thieves are getting pretty sophisticated !!!
They ARE indeed crooks as they ARE asking for AppleID and Password … something Apple will NEVER do.
I didn’t give them anything at though. The 11 password is setup with my face id. And btw i came to know about you guys from the same email.
Need help with lost iphone
