Thanks Rob, 

Regards

A loyal Apple ‘costumer’ 


> On 23 Nov 2016, at 4:38 PM, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> It's not google - it's a scam. The actual address, hidden in the long google 
> string is 'staging.btvin.com'.
> 
> I get these regularly, and ignore them.
> Rob
> 
> 
> On 23/11/2016 2:12 pm, [email protected] wrote:
>> Just a heads-up:
>> 
>> Received an email supposedly from Apple about resetting my Apple ID password 
>> — claiming I recently requested a password reset for my Apple ID  — I 
>> didn’t. Hovered my mouse over the several links in the email, and this is 
>> what it said ( crippled the link):
>> 
>> ww.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwimsKmOvL3QAhVEGJQKHZfjB-UQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fstaging.btvin.com%2F&usg=AFQjCNEV3TjhrU5cVKWDbrekPApkUz-shw&bvm=bv.139250283,d.dGo
>> 
>> The body of the email starts out:
>> 
>> "Dear costumer,
>> You recently requested a password reset for your Apple ID. To complete the 
>> process, click the link below.…”
>> 
>> If this really is from Google, I would really like to know why — it seems to 
>> me Google is getting far too big with tentacles into far too many things. I 
>> sent the information to Scamwatch.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Pat
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