I received this email: Activation Lock is requesting your password on My iPad.

IMPORTANT...... The message is NOT from Apple. It is from a bad guy who is trying to trick you into revealing personal information and passwords to your phone.

How do you know this is a scam? Very simple....Apple does NOT get involved with lost or stolen phone, so the message cannot be from Apple.

If you provide the bad buy with any information at all, that can be used to get into your phone and your data.

You should ignore the message and delete it. You may receive more messages, including threats. Ignore and delete them as well.

You will never see the phone again, but at least you can really frustrate the bad guy who has your phone and is trying to trick you into providing your personal information so they can get at the data on the phone, erase the phone and then sell it.

Do not respond to it, IT IS A SCAM. Apple does not get involved with stolen devices, they would never send you an email about your stolen device. The scammers are trying to trick you into giving them your password.

Yeah, that email means someone is trying to unlock your iPad. Be very careful about looking for it. You never know who you might be dealing with. It could be a bad guy you don't want to approach.

I understand you say it is a scam which I can see is very good because it has all the correct data about you and the phone. So, how do they know who I am and how do they know my email address to able to send the email to me in the first place. The way you can tell the email is false is because it starts with Find My rather than Apple. But it is very subtle.

How do they know that this email address belongs to the phone?

Have they already hacked apple and know every icloud/mac email already?

Why is the email able to say the correct name of the device? I have not used my real name on the device for a number of years but many people probably do.

Why is it sent to the correct mac/icloud email address?

"How do they know that this email address belongs to the phone?

Have they already hacked apple and know every icloud/mac email already?

Why is the email able to say the correct name of the device? I have not used my real name on the device for a number of years but many people probably do.

Why is it sent to the correct mac/icloud email address?"

Your email address is readily accessible on the internet all over the world. Any time you input your email to a company it can be harvested and sold.

No, Apple has not been hacked. Your paranoia is getting the better of you. The only way you can keep your private information private is to not use the internet at all. Your personal data is an open book on the internet no matter what various companies say about protecting your privacy.