Just received an email confirming an order number for a product I did not purchase. I logged in to my account to find that there are no pending orders...
So I am assuming the notification is bogus, but how can I be sure that my account has not been tempered with?
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.0.2
There are fairly regular posts on here about phishing emails saying that something has been purchased on their account, quite often with 'click her to request a refund' in them. These will hopefully help to check if it's genuine or not (generally real emails will be personalised, not 'dear customer', 'hello' etc, and be written in proper grammatical language) :
Phishing and similar emails : Phishing & Other Suspicious Emails
Phishing emails : Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email - Apple Support
Genuine iTunes emails : Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store - Apple Support
Viewing your account's purchase history : See your purchase history in the iTunes Store - Apple Support (on an iOS device you can view the last 90 days purchases via http://reportaproblem.apple.com)
If it is a phishing email you could forward it to Apple : reportphishing@apple.com , and then delete it.
Thank you so much for the detailed response! My first visit here and search did not yield the results I was looking for...
I am sure the various links will be very useful!
I'll check them out now!
Bogus purchase notification?
