“An e-mail purporting to be from Apple alerting users to a billing problem is, in fact, a phishing scam that’s targeting users of Apple’s online service,” Peter Cohen reports for Macworld.
“The e-mail, forwarded to Macworld by a reader, looks like an official communication from Apple regarding MobileMe, the company’s subscription service that provides users with a personal e-mail address, Web hosting, file sharing capabilities, and online data synchronization between Macs, iPhones, and other devices. The e-mail states: ‘We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?’ Users are then invited to click on a link to enter that information—but that link opens a Web page in your browser that does not appear to be affiliated with Apple or MobileMe (the other links in the e-mail do point to pages on Apple’s official Web site),” Cohen reports.
“A check of the link information reveals that it is registered to a personal Gmail account originating in Bacau, Romania,” Cohen reports. “In phishing scams, crooks send a phony, official-looking e-mail that tries to entice recipients into revealing private information such as passwords, social security numbers, or credit card and banking account data.”
More info and a screenshot of the email in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Note: Click through to see the email and do not click on links from unsolicited, untrusted emails. Read Macworld’s companion piece “How to avoid phishing scams” here.