Beware: Apple Phishing Scam

[Nightfall4]

On July 3rd I received a very Apple looking email that was a phishing scam. Thankfully I did not submit any information. The email contained the following:

From: no_reply@apple.com
Subject: Billing Problem
Date: July 3, 2008 2:26:32 PM CDT
Reply-To: no_reply@apple.com

We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?

To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today by clicking here , After a few clicks, just verify the information you entered is correct.


The image inside the email was the old .Mac logo. With the 3G phone coming out the scammers are trying to get information from Apple and iPhone customers.

[BobMarley]

Thanks for the heads up.

Just a reminder, never, NEVER click in an email. If you are uncertain, open a browser manually and check the questioned web site.

[Sam DaCool]

Yeah thanks man. Thats something i would do because it sounds pretty official to me, so thanks again.

[webwise]

I am so sick and tired of losers who think their lives matter or are improved by scamming on others.

Question everything you get via email.

[chadaw]

Yeah go directly to the official web site. For fun hover over most links in the email and see what the link, links to (url). If you hover and the link is just numbers or not with the official domain name, definately do not click on it.

[alex.stef]

but how did they managed to make a @apple.com email address ?

[webwise]

Email addresses are simple to "mask" with a different one...never judge the validity of an email solely by the from address...

[chadaw]

Very true and domains can be hacked.

[hac]

Yeah, email addresses are easily faked. Anyways, I'd never expect anything like that from Apple...

[Sam DaCool]

the part that makes it not believable is the "after a few clicks" part. I had no idea that people can fake email addresses. I'll have to look out for this now.