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I received an email from appleid@id.apple.com requesting that I verify my Apple ID and password. Is it legitmate?

I received an email from appleid@id.apple.com requesting that I verify my Apple ID and password. Is it legitmate?

iPhone 4

Posted on May 7, 2012 8:05 AM

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Dec 14, 2013 11:16 AM in response to Sonj

this is the one i got.........SPAMMED IT 🙂


The password for your Apple ID ************ has been suspended.

We detect unauthorized Login Attempts to your AppleID from other IP address Location. or that an unauthorized person has accessed your account.

To confirm your AppleID, we recommend that you go to: forget.*****.. >>

Apple Customer Support

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Dec 17, 2013 8:42 PM in response to Chuck78

I got one this morning from do_not_reply@apple.com telling me that all my apps would be deleted from the app store if I don't verify.


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Dear Apple Customer ( ************* ),

This is an automatic message sent by our security system to inform you know that you have to confirm your account information in 48 hours.
Your iTunes - Account & Billing is prone to be frozen because we are unable to validate your account information. If you do not confirm your account your applications will be deleted from your App Store.
This process does not take more than 3 minutes. To proceed to confirm your account details please click on the link below and follow the instructions.

Verify Now >

Wondering why you got this email?
It's sent when someone adds or changes a contact email address for an Apple ID account. If you didn't do this, don't worry. Your email address cannot be used as a contact address for an Apple ID without your verification.

For more information, see our frequently asked questions.

Thanks,
Apple Customer Support

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Dec 18, 2013 5:02 PM in response to Zilli3

Zilli3 wrote:


Apple should be knowing abouting this phishing shmishing and be doing someting to putting stopping it.


Every legitimate company in the world would love to stop spam and phishing attempts in their name. But with 7+ Billion people in the world, hundreds of millions of computers, some 196 national borders (depends who you ask how many nations there actually are) all with different laws, and an internet system that inherently freely roams actoss those borders, nationalities and nation's laws, it is simply impossible to stop someone from setting up a basement server and doing pretty much whatever they wish to. Even if you stop some of them in some countries, some other one pops up somewhere else - often in a country where the authorities truly have far more pressing issues than someone being bothered by some spam and really do not care about such relatively trivial things.


It is ridiculous to expect any one corporation to be able stop all spam and phishing emails originating from anywhere on the planet.

Jan 16, 2014 1:34 AM in response to John Galt

Hi, this morning I received 3 emails from Apple (or so I think).


Dear Abdallah Al zain,


You've entered ************* (my email was here) as the contact email address for your Apple ID. To complete the process, we just need to verify that this email address belongs to you. Simply click the link below and sign in using your Apple ID and password.


Verify Now >


Wondering why you got this email?
It's sent when someone adds or changes a contact email address for an Apple ID account. If you didn't do this, don't worry. Your email address cannot be used as a contact address for an Apple ID without your verification.


For more information, see our frequently asked questions.


Thanks,
Apple Customer Support


Dear Abdallah Al zain,
Your Apple ID (************)-again my email was here was used to sign in to FaceTime on an iPhone 5 named “iPhone الخاص بـ عبدالله”.

Time: January 15, 2014

Operating System: iPhone OS,7.0.4,11B554a

If you recently signed in to this device, you can disregard this email.
If you have not recently signed in to an iPhone with your Apple ID and believe someone may have accessed your account, you should reset your password at My Apple ID.
Apple Support


Dear Abdallah Al zain,
Your Apple ID (************)-again my email was here
was used to sign in to iCloud on an iPhone 5.

Time: January 15, 2014

Operating System: iOS;7.0.4

If you recently signed in to this device, you can disregard this email.
If you have not recently signed in to an iPhone with your Apple ID and believe someone may have accessed your account, you should reset your password at My Apple ID.
Apple Support



For one....my name ISN'T Abdallah al zain, I never create an apple id simply becaue I don't have any apple products. Then I went to appleid.apple.com and tried to log in, but clicked on forgot password, so I was able to reset the password. After succesfully logging in with this id I could see the account info.....I checked the addresses and this is what I got:

Primary Address

Abdallah Al zain

Ghhh

Bbzjb

Dnzjbshnz

00966

Saudi Arabia


How is someone else able to create an Apple account with somebody else's email address??

I received an email from appleid@id.apple.com requesting that I verify my Apple ID and password. Is it legitmate?

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