Another great, and very reliable way to distinguish the malware from the genuine article is to examine the link they want you to click. If it doesn't end with "apple.com," it's most likely bogus, though Apple does maintain other domains, e.g. icloud.com.
I like to report these kinds of phishing attacks. I keep a short list of specific addresses that major companies who are frequent targets of such attacks have setup for recieving these kinds of reports. I have addresses for PayPal and for the IRS. In this instance the correct address to forward this kind of mail is: [email protected] You do want to forward, as they will need to examine the email's header--its metadata. PS: It's something very much like this that compromised John Podesta's email that was so much in the news during the U.S. election. He was fooled by one of these "man in the middle" attacks that got him to reveal his gmail password. Janina Andrew Lamanche writes: > Hi Everyone, > > I’ve just received two fake emails with the Subject line "Apple Service ID > unlock it now before you lose it”. This sort of thing has happened before. > The email tells me that my icloud account associated with itunes is going to > be locked unless I follow the link in the email. When I read the content > carefully, the grammar of the email is one of the obvious giveaways. Besides > the content is all in a table - another odd thing about it. Be cautious, > everyone. > > best wishes > > > Andrew ! > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries > list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: > [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you > can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Janina Sajka, Phone: +1.443.300.2200 sip:[email protected] Email: [email protected] Linux Foundation Fellow Executive Chair, Accessibility Workgroup: http://a11y.org The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Chair, Accessible Platform Architectures http://www.w3.org/wai/apa -- The following information is important for all members of the Mac Visionaries list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your Mac Visionaries list moderator is Mark Taylor. You can reach mark at: [email protected] and your owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
