Thank you Ed! John
On May 19, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Ed Wiser wrote: > New phishing email pretends to be from Apple's online store > The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) > > We've received several reports today of an email making the rounds that's > very likely a phishing scam. The message content is cleverly designed to look > like it's coming from the Apple Store, and clicking on any of the links will > take you to a website that's even superficially similar to Apple's online > store. > > If you get this email, don't buy anything from its associated website, as > there are a few dead giveaways to the inauthenticity of the message. First, > the message sender will come up as a random string of characters followed by > @live.com. All messages from the Apple Store should have apple.com at the > end, and nothing else. The URL that you're directed to if you click anything > in the message will eventually resolve to appledownload.com instead of the > proper URL, store.apple.com, and you'll find a website that looks sort of > like Apple's storefront but is focused seemingly exclusively on software > sales. > > The "about" section on the site is written in quite broken English and claims > the business is based in San Francisco. However, a simple WhoIs lookup shows > that the site is registered to "Lyubov Bushmakina" in St. Petersburg, Russia. > If that's not a red flag, I don't know what is. > > Bottom line: don't buy anything from this site if you're the least bit > paranoid of being defrauded. There's a slim chance the site may be a > legitimate software outlet, but by "slim chance" I really mean "snowball's > chance on the surface of Venus." Always be wary of emails like this that > offer to sell you stuff, especially if there's telltale signs it's not coming > from who you think it is at first glance. > > New phishing email pretends to be from Apple's online store originally > appeared on TUAW on Wed, 18 May 2011 23:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for > use of feeds. > > Source | Permalink | Email this | Comments > Sent with Reeder > > > Sent from my iPhone > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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