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Watch Out! Spoofing email says it's from Apple, it's not.

by Joe Mobley
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I received this email a couple of hours ago. It slipped through Gmail's usually good spam filters.

From: Apple.Inc (It's not.)

Subject: Please Update Your All Information (Note incorrect verbiage.)

Contents:

Dear

your AppLe Account Has Been Frozen Temporarily.


Please Login Using The Link Below :
Update Your apple Account
Please log into your apple account using the above Informations And Update Your Account Informations Before Locking Your Account.


- Always Use The Right Informations Before Login To Your Account
- Keep your Password in a safe place and never give it out to anyone!
- Please always send your questions or problems to support
(The underlined text in blue is not a link but is in the email.)

Keep your eyes open.

Joe Mobley
  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    "Update Your All Information"
    "account informations"
    " Right Informations Before Login To"


    I find it hard to believe that ANYONE falls for this - suckers, suckers.

    I saw a new member on this forum yesterday who has listed his location as "United State of America"...and I thought "sure you are, dear".
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    • Profile picture of the author Joe Mobley
      Kay,

      You're right... but I have friends... and relatives that don't think and click, click, click. Then I (their computer guy) get a phone call...

      The interesting thing to me was that this slipped through Gmail's pretty good spam filters.

      So, there you go.

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    • Profile picture of the author seasoned
      Originally Posted by Kay King View Post

      I saw a new member on this forum yesterday who has listed his location as "United State of America"...and I thought "sure you are, dear".
      The way things are these days, WHO KNOWS? I have had american born coworkers actually talking to me in what I call Inglish! I ask them WHY they are talking that way, and they actually didn't notice!

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  • Profile picture of the author laurencewins
    PayPal, different banks, "relatives" in Nigeria and even our phone company all "really" send emails but they are all actually spam/scam/hackers.

    My dad rings me to ask if something is bad about emails he gets. I always explain how to tell but he doesn't get it. If people aren't very computer literate, they can easily be fooled...sad to say.
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    • Profile picture of the author Daniel Evans
      Only silly billies fall for spoof emails nowadays.

      You just don't click links and login via the URLs if you need to check. Simple.
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      • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
        In every single one of these emails despite them often being mostly well worded they always make a typo. Like informations or a grammatical error!

        Haven't these Eastern Europeans ever heard of a thesaurus or dictionary?

        What are the criminal fraternity coming to these days!

        Not to forget the obvious fact that you NEVER click on a link in an email to login to your account!
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  • Profile picture of the author ThomM
    Originally Posted by Joe Mobley View Post

    I received this email a couple of hours ago. It slipped through Gmail's usually good spam filters.

    From: Apple.Inc (It's not.)

    Subject: Please Update Your All Information (Note incorrect verbiage.)

    Contents:

    (The underlined text in blue is not a link but is in the email.)

    Keep your eyes open.

    Joe Mobley
    Joe do you actually own any Apple products?
    I find spam in my inbox at gmail on the rare occasion, but it is very rare.
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