Your Apple ID Wasn’t Used to Sign In to Facetime, iCloud, and iMessage on an iPhone 5  
by Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (friend Anne facebook-f-blue ) - Last updated 02/20/2013 - 183 views

Summary: There has been a rash of fake notices this week, supposedly from Apple, warning that "Your Apple ID was used to sign in to FaceTime, iCloud, and iMessage on an iPhone 5". Hopefully, if you received one of these, you were quickly able to realize that these fake Apple alerts were spam, but just in case you weren't sure, we are confirming that for you.

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There has been a rash of fake notices this week, supposedly from Apple, warning that “Your Apple ID was used to sign in to FaceTime, iCloud, and iMessage on an iPhone 5″. Hopefully, if you received one of these, you were quickly able to realize that these fake Apple alerts were spam, but just in case you weren’t sure, we are confirming that for you.

The fake Apple email starts out “Dear Customer, Your Apple ID ({your email address goes here}) was used to sign in to FaceTime, iCloud, and iMessage on an iPhone 5.”

Now, first of all, Apple would not send an email saying all the services that were accessed, and they wouldn’t say from what device the alleged access occurred.

The fake notice then goes on to say “If you have not recently set up an iPhone with your Apple ID, then you should change your Apple ID password. Learn More.”

Of course, “Learn More” and “change your Apple ID password” are linked to spam sites such as Canadian pharmacy sites, and in some case may be linked to fake Apple pages where you will believe you are changing your password, but really the bad guys are grabbing your password.

And finally, if you look carefully, you will note that the sending address is not an Apple address at all.

Of course, if you get one of these and you don’t have an Apple ID, you’ll know right away. But just in case, don’t be taken in.

 


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