This is totally unrelated to my gaming life, but worth a mention.
As it was sent to an account without any connection to Apple it was a no brainer it was a scam, but as a responsible citizen of the WWW I still sent it to reportphishing@apple.com
Note if you hover over the sender email you can who sent it.
Not an apple account, but see how cleverly they copy in the genuine
no-reply@ mail.apple.com
in an attempt to make you click.
What you don't do is click on the verification link.
Unless you want to either:
a) get a trojan or virus on your PC
or
b) hand over your account details and maybe credit card/Bank details
On the 11th I get a follow up,
or so it seems.
Different 'sent from' address but again not Apple's.
This time it was copied to customer@live.com an (MS address).
Yet another attempt to get you to click on the verification link.
Who knows where this then takes you, phishing your apple account details or bank account details or drop in a Trojan.
Don't know didn't click, why would I?
Again sent to
reportphishing@apple.com but as an image as it refused to allow me to forward the e-mail and link.
For the record I have been on my Apple account as I coincidentally got a statement from them on the correct email account on the same day. Even there I don't click on links, I open a new browser tab and login there.
As I have two factor identification they sent a txt with a PIN number to my linked phone that I have to put in on the web browser before I continue and finish my login.
Surprise surprise I'm not locked out.
Do setup two factor identification.
Be careful out there.
They are persistent little blighters
I got this on the 15th November, same e-mail (which never had any connection to apple).
On a pc/laptop you can quite clearly see the real e-mail address.
It is also offering translation for Czech.
On my iPhone the email isn't displayed it just shows 'Apple ID', but when I click on that twice it takes me to the scammer's e-mail.
