SPAM email purporting to be from Apple

WARNING TO ALL APPLE USERS

I have received the most convincing email from iTunes asking to agree a subscription which is of course invalid. You agree or disagree with payment, when I followed through to cancel this subscription it asked me to verify all ID. At this point I stopped the action.

The point is - the website was almost identical to Apple, rolling screens etc. etc

Very convin

SO BEWARE!!!!

Most likely phishing.

Hover (not click on) over the link they provide and it likely does not end in "apple.com".

Delete it, do not even respond to say "go away" as you will be targeted with more emails.

Forward it to reportphishing at Apple.

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Apple will never send you unsolicited mail for any reason. If you alter you're account, or someone else does it will literally say so. No vagueness. Ignore it and block/bounce the emails.

MVardy.

No. You should never bounce these mails. That tells the sender the account is live. Just delete.

? It's irrelevant if its "active" of course its "active"... I work for apple. Shh.

Useful set of comments from some well versed contributors ... albeit who don't work for Apple. 😕

Unsolicited e-mails: Apple Support Communities

You should never bounce these mails. That tells the sender the account is live.

I find the Bounce featured to be quite effective. Yes, if the sender is very sophisticated they can tell the e-mail was bounced. However, 99% will believe that the e-mail address they sent to is not functioning.

Ziatron wrote:

I find the Bounce featured to be quite effective.

What it's most effective for is sending spam to innocent people whose addresses have been forged as the 'From' address on the spam. Little spam actually uses a real return address - the idea is for you to click on links - so all you are doing is adding to the misery for people who have nothing to do with it. And the next time the same people spam you it's likely to be from a different 'From' address, so as to get round your filters.

Added to which if it does happen to be a real address it doesn't take very much sophistication at all to tell that the bounce is a fake. Anyone up to sending large amounts of spam is going to be able to do this - but in any case I doubt if any spammer would bother to remove a bounced address from a list of thousands.

Please don't bounce spam. I know it's a temptation, but please don't do it.

You are thinking in terms of individuals. The problem today is machines and if one per cent of machine activated spam gets a response ... they're in business, and you're up to your neck in spam.

If you haven't already done so, and if you still have it, you could forward the email to Apple : reportphishing@apple.com