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iCloud scam email, watch out!!!

post #1 of 8
4/10/12 at 12:01pm
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A spam email redirecting you to a fake Apple website claiming that you will have to verify your iCloud information in order to migrate from MobileMe and keep all your settings.



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post #2 of 8
4/10/12 at 12:03pm
If the @cloud.com and completely wrong URL didn't tip people off, well

Anyway, thanks for the tip about this.
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That's Google alright. For a stupid company they sure do dumb things.
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post #3 of 8
4/10/12 at 12:29pm
I think a lot of Apple folk who received it would be fooled. Phishing emails with Apple's name on it are really uncommon aren't they?

The misspelling in the first paragraph would have me questioning it tho.

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post #4 of 8
5/4/12 at 6:58am
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil View Post

If the @cloud.com and completely wrong URL didn't tip people off, well

Anyway, thanks for the tip about this.

Yet people still get easily fooled by little tricks such as this. Since I started pulling double duty as developer and IT support I've come to realize just how much people like you and I take our computer literacy for granted. Christ on Bollock Waffles have I seen some sorry excuses for computer users, like a woman who asked me to email her document back to her because it was the only copy she had and didn't want me loosing it. If you can get her train of thought from that I'll buy you a drink at the bar.

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I think a lot of Apple folk who received it would be fooled. Phishing emails with Apple's name on it are really uncommon aren't they?

The misspelling in the first paragraph would have me questioning it tho.

I didn't even notice the spelling mistake until you pointed it out. Its all about the frame of mind the person is currently in: I was tired and skimming through it all and as long as the word vaguely looked like what it was supposed to look like and I could still understand it I was perfectly happy. Its actually a psychology trick I first stumbled across printed on an amusing poster on the wall of my maths class well over a decade ago. Long story, interesting read, told you at the end that every word was spelled incorrectly and everyone's mind was boggled from that moment onwards.

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post #5 of 8
4/16/13 at 5:46pm

This round of fraud emails are very authentic.  We got 5 of them today on different accounts.  One of which was an alias email address used for our service reply emails.  They have Apple return email address and all. I spent 3 hours on the with Apple this afternoon - even a 3rd level tech seemed to think the email was from Apple until he clicked the link an dit took him to a spoof Apple site with an IP address routed through China.

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post #6 of 8
4/17/13 at 2:06am
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This round of fraud emails are very authentic.  We got 5 of them today on different accounts.  One of which was an alias email address used for our service reply emails.  They have Apple return email address and all. I spent 3 hours on the with Apple this afternoon - even a 3rd level tech seemed to think the email was from Apple until he clicked the link an dit took him to a spoof Apple site with an IP address routed through China.

The best way to check where an email is from is to check its headers.

 

Double click a message in Mail to open it in its own window, then select View > Message > All Headers. There will usually be something in there that doesn't match up correctly. For example - the return address wont match the sender address, or it will have a point of origin which doesn't match the sender address. We had a mail supposedly from one of our suppliers at work - but upon checking the headers we found it had actually originated from a yahoo.nl account.

 

Examples of some headers from AppleInsider:

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post #7 of 8
4/18/13 at 2:13am

yea, I also agree that many people were fooled by this.But thanks for the tip!!

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post #8 of 8
4/26/13 at 7:20pm

So far I haven't seen this one but will now keep a watch incase.

 

Thanks for the heads up

 

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