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Is this a legitimate Apple mail?

I received an email telling me my Icloud account was closed.

I looked at the email address as it wasn't sent to me directly but to "undisclosed recipients"

I receive a lot of strange emails which I usually disregard, however at the same time I received what seemed like a legitimate Apple mail telling me I accessed my Icloud account from an non legitimate browser: Chrome.

I Prefer to use chrome to Safari as many sites seem to prefer chrome to Safari

While the return address in the whole header was Return-Path: <support@iclouds.com>

other headers where telling me;

Authentication-Results: st11p00im-smtpin029.me.com; spf=fail (st11p00im-smtpin029.me.com: domain of support@iclouds.com does not designate 80.88.91.62 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=support@iclouds.com;

Which should means this was a scam or a spoof

I wonder if this is a virus of some sorts and if other users received similar messages

As this was the first time Apple "complained" for my usage of Chrome and the mails arrived more or less at the same time, I wonder what is it all about

Thanks

Mac Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5), MAC PRO 4.1

Posted on Oct 9, 2015 10:01 AM

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Posted on Oct 10, 2015 6:29 AM

No, it’s not. Apple doesn’t use iclouds.com; the actual domain for iCloud is icloud.com.


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Is this a legitimate Apple mail?

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