My mother-in-law received what appeared to be an email from Apple saying that a $49.99 in-app purchase had been make on her iTunes account. The email looked completely legit, but luckily she was suspicious and called me and asked me to check it out. She forwarded the email to me and it was a very good phishing attempt. No bad english, formatting exactly like an Apple purchase email. The only give away was hovering over the URL that stated "if you did not make this purchase click here to file a dispute". The URL was definitely not Apple. I had her delete the email and rest assured nothing was purchased on her account. Over the next couple of days this was confirmed by no charge on her credit card.
She was suspicious enough to no just panic and click the link, but I can see lots of people falling for this one. It was one of the best phishing emails I've ever seen. Criminals suck!
Hello.. I received same this email from app store and written that a purchase has made through my account so open the attached file to view the purchase, i opened the pdf file and i found the order details(the item and price and date), at the end was written that if you don’t feel comfortable about this booking please cancel, so i pressed cancel and it opened a fake apple website. I know it’s a phishing email but i want to know if its contain a virus or no. thanks.
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I received same this email from app store and written that a purchase has made through my account so open the attached file to view the purchase, i opened the pdf file and i found the order details(the item and price and date), at the end was written that if you don’t feel comfortable about this booking please cancel, so i pressed cancel and it opened a fake apple website. I know it’s a phishing email but i want to know if its contain a virus or no.
thanks.