Please verify the contact email address for your Apple ID.

HI -

I asked about this at the SnowLeopard forum, and finally got an address at Apple. I copied the spam message and emailed it to "Spam@me.com". Then I got a response from SPAM@ME.COM. I wonder if it only applies to folks with a ME account? Anyway - here's what they sent:

Thank you for contacting MobileMe. We have received the spam report that you submitted.
MobileMe takes all violations of the Acceptable Use Policy very seriously.
A MobileMe security member will investigate the incident and will contact you if required.
All reported spam must be provided as an attachment.

If you are using the application Mail in Mac OS X please follow these steps:
1) Select the spam message in your Inbox
2) From the Menu bar select Message => Forward As Attachment
3) Address to spam@me.com and Send

The Mobileme Membership Agreement and Acceptable Use Policy are available online at:
http://www.apple.com/legal/mobileme/en/terms.html

Thank you for taking the time to contact us.

MobileMe Postmaster

Toad2001 and others...

I got the same email, too, and came to the discussions and found your posts. So I did a bit more digging and under the "AppleID" FAQ's found the following.

"When you create a new Apple ID or make certain changes to your account, Apple will require you to sign in by following the link in a verification email. This is to help prevent fraud and to help protect your identity. Some Apple services, such as FaceTime and GameCenter, require email validation."

Looks like this is not phishing even though it does lead to a page that asks for both your AppleID and password. I'm going to trust the site. If there are ramifications 😟 I will post something more. Otherwise, no news is good news.

I also received this email. What bothers me about it is that is says this email is "sent when someone adds or changes a contact email address for an Apple ID account." I did not add or change anything on my Apple account.

sheppardkym wrote:
I also received this email. What bothers me about it is that is says this email is "sent when someone adds or changes a contact email address for an Apple ID account." I did not add or change anything on my Apple account.

Exactly! Neither had I done anything to trigger this.

Still haven't heard anything from Apple officially on this thread. Maybe no one from Apple monitors this forum?

I've not responded to the email and nothing dreadful has happened to my Apple account access either--so if it's a legitimate email, why send it if nothing will happen if I don't respond?

Very strange.

Today I received the same email.
I did not add or change any email-addresses.

Although it may not have been wise, I did click the link.
It brought me to an apple website that looked legit,
and showed me a message: "This email address has been previously verified".

If it does turn out to be phishing, and if anything bad starts to happen, I'll be sure to post again here..

Hi - What's going on Apple?
Ive rec'd a similar msg 4 times in the past 3 weeks:

Subject (all caps mine): HOW TO RESET YOUR APPLE ID PASSWORD

Dear ZZZ ZZZZZ,
To reset your Apple ID password, simply click the link below. That will take you to a web page where you can create a new password.
Please note that the link will expire three hours after this email was sent.

Reset your Apple ID password > ( I didn't click it but on hover I can see that this URL goes to an "iForgot" cgi.)

Questions? There are lots of answers on our Apple ID support page >
If you weren't trying to reset your password, don't worry — your account is still secure and no one has been given access to it. Most likely, someone just mistyped their email address while trying to reset their own password.
Thanks,
Apple Customer Support

It's real. I went in via the support link and did a "Manage my account". I got it to resend me the email and it was identical, including the links.

It just seems odd that Apple would send these automatically as we have all been trained to ignore them.

The mails I believe to be authentic however you should not be receiving them unless you have changed something in your apple account profile. If you have received a mail keep an eye on you itunes purchase history. I receive one these mails on 5th Dec and on the 6th Dec an In App Purchase for several orders went through my itunes account costing me £30. I only spotted this today and have reported it to Apple so will update when I get a response.

I got the same email late last night. I made no change to my account and it just didn't look right to me so I ignored them till this evening when I could look a little closer.

a few other things made me worry:

- the first email was immediately followed by a "Thank you for creating your Apple Id" email
- both emails showed up in a gmail account that I never use for Apple stuff
- both emails show an Apple Id the same as the gmail account but missing a "." in the name, so the Apple Id is "lastNamefirstName@gmail.com" but the email address that I received these with is "lastName.firstName@gmail.com"

After reading this thread I decided to take my chances on my iPad and click on the "Verify Now" link. I obviously did not know the password to this new account, so using the "I forgot my password" link I was able to get a reset password email to my gmail account.

I changed the password and logged in to look around. The name is my name, but the Apple Id (which also seconds as the contact email address) is my gmail account but missing the "."

I don't understand how the email got to me missing the "."

Everything looked normal with this account, and then checking the address I see a west coast address and I am on the east coast.

This got me worried about someone trying to order stuff (I had something like this happen with my ATT account once), so I took a quick look in the Apple Store with this Id, but the order history and the cart was empty, so hopefully nothing happening there.

I also changed the security question, which was a question I would never choose, and the birthdate was wrong so I changed that also.

Now to add to the weirdness, I googled the west coast address, and it turns out to be a business that has my last name in it!

This got me thinking that maybe I just hijacked someone else's account! So I called the business, got voice mail and left a message to call me back if someone with my name works there. I'll see if they call back.

I have two Apple Ids already which is confusing enough, so I want to delete this account, unless I just screwed someone else up, in which case I guess I will work out something with my name twin on the west coast and somehow give the account back to him.

Very weird.

Well my name twin in California just called back! He just got an Apple product and (thought) he registered last night.

My gmail account name has 2 'n's in the middle, and his drops one 'n'.

He is going to create a new Apple account and start over.

I got the "verify email" email and responed (foolishly quick). Then I read these threads, got worried and changed my password at the Apple site just in case.

I did however remember that the night before I got the email I was using the *"Inception-augmented dream" App on my iPhone* and it asked me to register for game-centre or something and mentioned that an email verification was required so I wasn't surprised to see the email.

I have since done the whole read the header from the email thing and I did an IP search for the addresses in the header and they seem to me to be apple affiliated, maybe someone more familiar with this could let me know if I'm wrong.

Received: from unknown (HELO gambell.apple.com) ([17.128.113.99])

Received: from badger1802.apple.com ([17.254.6.247])

I typed them in here
http://www.ip-adress.com/ip_tracer/

I too will let you know if anything goes funny with my account.

Message was edited by: Mark Quince

I know this topic has gone a while without reply but it is the only thread I can find through google on this topic. My wife and I both received this exact e-mail within a few days of each other. We both contacted Apple support and got official word back that we should not respond to this e-mail. The agent who replied stated repeatedly that apple will "never" request your password, under any circumstances.

I still find it hard to be 100% sure that this is a scam, I figure the techs would know if it was one of their own e-mails. Hope that information helps anyone else getting this message.

Hey Guys,
I just got this email last night... but not only once. It came several times (about 5) to two different email addresses of mine. I opened one of the emails and then just errased them all without clicking any links. The only connection that I can see through reading a few of the responses on here is that some people mention the "Game Center" app on the iphone and I had just registered on it last night. I assume from this that it is something to do with that, however I will keep track and see if I get any more emails after future uses of the same application. If so, I will post on here.

i got the same email after i fiddled with my apple account. It tried to take me to:

https: //id.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/IDMSAccount.woa/wa/vetemail?language=US-EN&key=Y2VjYmYwN zZhY2ZiYzcyZWNjMzdlMTk5N2I1MTE3OWUwOTNlZWI1MDcxZmY3MGZhZjg1MTJlZmM3ZDk0MjBlMGYzN GViYzMzY2NjNmUxZTQyYjhjYWI3MDFkNTRlZDAxNmZjZjU0ODI2ZGRhY2MzMDY0OTk0Nzg0MTY5ZmEyO WE0NzFhMGY5MTkzN2M2OTA2ZTE5NTVlOWM1NjA5MmY3ODI2YWM4MWY1NmJiZTcwNGI3M2ZhNGVjNjgxO WYzOTg4ZDcyNDg5ZmZiMWRhYzA0OTY2ZDhlZGZmMjk3NDI0ZjdjZGEwNWU5YTgwODgyNWM4YzM2ZTU1O DJmNGNmMmM0Yg==

i click on it as the email was from: appleid @ ap​ple.com

google chrome told me the site's security certificate is not trusted

the certificate is from entrust

is this legit or not?

edit: i refeshed the page and it went through, it said already verified.

Is id.apple.com the same as appleid.apple.com the same?