I received an email stating that my iCloud account t was hacked. I deleted the email because the beginning of it was threatening. I have heard of scams like this and has anyone else gotten this message?
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Hi onezanny,
If you’re concerned, I’d highly recommend changing your Apple ID passwords to be safe.
You can also read this post from Apple to learn more about phishing / scam attacks and how to report them - Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.
If you believe the email was a scam deleting it is the right call!
Hi onezanny,
If you’re concerned, I’d highly recommend changing your Apple ID passwords to be safe.
You can also read this post from Apple to learn more about phishing / scam attacks and how to report them - Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support.
If you believe the email was a scam deleting it is the right call!
There are lots of messages with lots of claims.
Apple doesn’t send email with these claims, they lock your Apple ID.
So this isn’t legitimate.
Here, the senders were probably providing links to a fake Apple login portal, and if you used those links to that fake login portal and provided your Apple ID credentials, that phish would be how your Apple ID was hacked.
Change your password as mentioned above if you want, and enable two-factor authentication if not already.
You can also run Safety Check: Personal Safety User Guide - Apple Support
Phishing is very common, though.
Here are a very few of the many scams: Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
They were just trying to scare you into providing them your personal information or convince you to install some type of software. These types of scam emails are very common.
I received an email stating that my iCloud account was hacked
