For the record, here's a recent Phishing Email from "Apple Inc." with Subject
RE : [ Summary New Reports ] Statement-News message Info-payment [Alert] that was received on Friday, Nov 3, 2017.
What to do?
RE : [ Summary New Reports ] Statement-News message Info-payment [Alert] that was received on Friday, Nov 3, 2017.
What to do?
Well looks it like SPAM is being deal with more effectively. As of writing of this post Nov 06, 2017 the offending website has been taken down, in just 4 days.
http://ow.ly/tKTm30glrvN did point to and very convincing Apple look alike site at
https://www.review-info-payment1.com/upgrade.info
Here's the view of the email in Outlook.com
The mail client with body of email reading; Please update your Apple ID Now
Here's what http://ow.ly/tKTm30glrvN points to and very convincing Apple look alike site at
https://www.review-info-payment1.com/upgrade.info
How to tell this is a Phishing email ?
- Check email "Apple Inc" <Dear-Admin.History.Account-Transfer-appleid2018@Update-Sumary-Account098-costumer039.legendsok.u122pdateyouinforeminadersugmarrylijmitedaccesyouraccoutservicepaksupriadi4536367webapps.account.live.mail.com> it not from apple.com but live.com email.
- Bad spelling
- Convert the email view from HTML to text, check for bad URLs.
- Hover over all links in email, if it's not from the same as the text then forget it.
- The best way is to look at message source, see below.
How to examine Email Message Source ?
- Outlook.com->Actions->View Message Source.
- Gmail.com->More (down arrow to top right)->Show original.
Report Phishing Email (not as Spam)
- Outlook.com->Junk (at Top)->Phishing Scam
- Gmail.com->More (down-arrow to top right)->Report Phishing
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