I just received what looks like a scam email. It is supposedly for a receipt from iTunes that has a product that I didn't buy. The email contains a link to a cancel form and never seen this from iTunes in the past.

I received an email that sends me an invoice for something I did not authorize, and then leads me to login which I did, because sometimes my grand daughter plays with my phone. It stated that I made a purchase for $89.00 of which I have no knowledge of. I just want to ensure that this legit.

Most likely a scam. Open iTunes and login to your account. There are links to check all App Store purchases ever made under that account. If it's there, then someone really did purchase an $89 item on your account. If not, it's fake.

Glad to see you caught it. Even here where you pasted the email body, you can easily spot that it's a fake. The last link to buy.itunes.apple.com does go where it says (let's ignore that Apple wouldn't send out such a sloppy looking email that would show such a long link). But I can tap and hold on the Cancel and Refund links on my iPad to see where it's going to take me. No surprise at all, nothing to do with any URL that would belong to Apple.

Clearly and obviously a fake email address.

While it can't hurt anything to change your password, there's no need to do that if you didn't enter any information in any web site you were sent to, or didn't respond to the email. Just delete the email and forget about it.

I appreciate you getting back to me. I wanted to make sure that other people know that this is going around. I changed my password just to stop any potential bread crumbs from getting from me to the perpetrators. Thank you.

Judy

The only bread crumbs would be from opening the email. Nothing horrible, but if your email client automatically displays any images, that's one way spammers pick up addresses.

Their favorite trick (and it's an old one) is to put a 1 by 1 pixel white image somewhere in an HTML formatted email against a white background. There's essentially no delay in transmitting such a tiny image, but in order to display the image, your email client has to request it from the server the email came from. This tells the server what address retrieved that image. They compile that list of addresses and use it themselves, and sell the list to other spammers.

So, what happens is it will increase the amount of spam you get as they have a list of live email addresses to send junk to.

To avoid that, open Mail's or Outlook's preferences (or whatever email client you use) and tell it not to automatically download images. I believe that the default in Outlook, but not Mail.

Today I received an email from "iTunes Confirmation Payment" (soundcloudreceipt.dont-reply1@itunesmanagement.com) and with the Subject Line "Your Receipt From Apple" and with an order number. In the email's body ...

Your SoundCloud subscription has been renewed

SoundCloud Music & Audio - [3 months]

The following subscription will renew soon

Recurring Subscription : 15 - March - 2018

We believe that someone is trying to make a purchase without your permission.

We have sent attachments or receipt [PDF].

I'm not a subscriber to SoundCloud. The PDF attached gave me the option to confirm that I did not place the order. I did nothing. Want to alert others of this scam.

I recdived a subscription that I did not authorize A Virtual Trainer PRO: Exercise Workout

Date of purchase 9/13/17 renewal price $399

PLEASE CANCEL THIS SUBSCRIPTION

It is not a renewal because I NEVER ordered this item.

PLEASE CANCEL THIS SUBSCRIPTION

It's generally a good idea to read previous replies before posting, if you had done so you would know that you are only talking to fellow users on these forums, and therefore would know that nobody on here can 'CANCEL THIS SUBSCRIPTION' for you - and that's assuming that it's a genuine email from iTunes that you've received, not a phishing email which is what this thread is about. Have you checked the email to see if it's genuine ?

I have received similar from email address Contact Information <contact.billing11@campolay.com>. I have not clicked any links - NEVER click a link in this type of email - simply go to your Apple account and check fpr bogus orders. If its a Phishing email, there wont be any order on your account. Obviously if you see an order that you didn't place, it is possible that your account has been hacked, so you should contact Apple immediately.

Same answer as for the rest of them. Open iTunes and click on Account at the right. Enter your Apple ID and password if it asks. Then under Purchase History, click on See All. It may take a bit to populate and iTunes may appear to be frozen. Be patient.

The most recent purchases will be listed at the top. If Virtual Trainer is there, then someone really did purchase the app on your account. This may mean someone hacked into your Apple account, or someone you know is piggy-backing on your account.

However, these types of emails are rampant. Their sole purpose is to get you to click on the link to "cancel" an order where they hope you will fill in all kinds of personal data on a fake Apple site. Often, information Apple would absolutely never ask for, such as your Social Security number, date of birth, Apple ID password, and other data they have no reason to ask for, or even know.

So, it's far more likely you will not see this item in iTunes as a purchase. In that case, delete the email and ignore.

I just received a similar email... From: no-reply@apple.... but the link is
hallmark@rcm.update.hallmark.com...

The Subject says... [Preview Locked] Info : Confirmation Your Suspicious Order Verification

It then describes a $399.99 subscription purchase (which I know I didn't make)

At the end of the email it say, "If you did not authorize this purchase , please visit iTunes Payment Cancellation Form

I did not click on any of the email provided links... instead I logged in iTunes and check my purchase history... it didn't exist so I know this is a phishing email... I'm going to forward the email to Apple and iTunes

I also received a similar email on 09-25-17 that said, "no-reply@apple" and email address of "hallmark@rcm.update.hallmark.com" re: confirmation of suspicious order verification, saying I'd purchased a subscription for Workout Fitness...and had that link to cancel, I didn't click on any of the links....

Yes my mother just received this for a $335 renewal charge for some exercise app. She is elderly and LOL now way did she ever get any exercise app for $335. It sent a link for cancellation form but nothin comes up I sent an email to Apple.

Yes I received one today. I saw immediately that whoever sent it asked for all my credit card details which was a big red flag!! I got into the actual apple site here and I am going to use the link they provide here to report this scam...it could have cost me $112.99!