“Apple users should be on high alert after a fresh SMS phishing scam was exposed that uses sophisticated online trickery in an attempt to compromise Apple ID credentials,” Jason Murdock reports for International Business Times. “Commenters on social media first reported the issue in early April after receiving a suspicious text message that read: ‘The Apple ID associated with this number is due to be terminated. To prevent this, please confirm your details at supportatapple.com – Apple Inc.'”
“If a user clicked the embedded link they would be sent straight to a replica website that has been created to mirror the real Apple login page,” Murdock reports. “However, as security-conscious web users would quickly notice, the URL for the page is appleexpired.co.uk and, upon inspection, is not an official link.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Let’s be careful out there.
You really Need to be very $tupid to give away personal data to a guy who writes from “applesupport@hotmail.com”
As the great philosopher Forrest Gump once said, “…stoopit is as stoopit does.”
It probably been changed to “stupid does as stupid is” in this universe. – inside or outside joke depending on how you see things… Some think they are in a similar, but different universe compared to when they were younger, or even several months ago. Many claim famous movie lines, among other things, are different now than they used to be. Search Mandella Effect for more info. As on blogger puts it, “Life is like a box of parallel universes…”
This phish has been happening for months—nearly got taken in the first time I got it.
They are also doing a similar phish with PayPal, which I don’t have.
Classic PHISHING scam.
I get several PHISHING scam attempts in email every week. I turn them all into the scammed sites, as well as to SpamCop.net. I also rant and rave at Twitter for NOT having any avenue for reporting Twitter user PHISHING. WTF is wrong with those people?
What’s twitter?
Generally I just ignore these. If I am concerned that it may be real then I will go directly to the official website and check there.
I wouldn’t be so harsh as calling people falling for than scam stupid. Successful con men (as phishing is just the IT equivalent of a con) can fool even careful and knowledgeable people.
I was once hit by a similar eBay phish (via email). Everything looked very very good — the email, the web page, even the URL required some inside knowledge to see it was fake. What tripped me was the fact that they were asking for information that I never provided to eBay in the first place (i.e., banking information).