Got an email today apparently from the Apple Store, for a receipt for buying a service called "Personal Trainer". I've never used the Apple Store, nor do I own any of their products, so that's a pretty big clue in itself. Logged into my bank, and there is no pending payments, so the scammers can't have got my details/passwords/whatever.

After a little searching, it turns out to be a reasonably clever scam. The idea is to get people to click the Cancel button in the email. Naturally I always check whether these links go to what they state they do, and whether it looks suspicious, which it certainly did. It was a link to faithgifts.net, to a .php script.

If you get a mail like this, or similar, don't click on that link, thinking it will cancel an order you haven't made. It's a scam/phishing scam to get details from you, which will then later be used to actually scam you.

Thanks for sharing

Wow, thanks for the warning

Apple Store scam?
Is that paying £1600 for £800 of hardware because is white?

I get similar emails or phone calls 'a problem with your credit card' being so vague and assuming 90% of people have credit cards, while I don't have one.

Usually for email scams they are for Paypal, or a bank of some kind.

Most things from Apple are a scam. This is no different and pretty common. I have been getting these once a month for about 2 years and I don't own any Apple products.

I got one of those awhile back, contacted Apple support and they confirmed that it was bogus.

Rule of thumb, never follow an email link to login to anything.

I tend to forward them to the appropriate business and they can notify or act appropriately.

What's curious is if you look at the HTML codes, the emails try to actually use the CSS and other code from the legitimate website.

I got the same one as well. For similar suspicious emails, it is always better to check them on PC first since on cellphone you may not be able to see a lot of the details, such as the link (without clicking it) and the sender address.

I tend to look at the email headers, find the originating server and email their abuse@ email.

I've had a few replies back thanking me for informing them that their systems have been compromised.

I'll get one of those every once in a while. Those type of phishing attempts tend to be extremely obvious, the e-mail address while similar is obviously not identical. Instead of .com it'll be something like .net or com.net, etc... The grammar is often off, cluing you in that the author probably not a native English speaker. I just report the attempts by forwarding the e-mail to the spoof departments of the relevant company.

That reminds me; I haven't heard about one of those Nigerian prince, government official, etc... Spanish prisoner pigeon drop confidence tricks in a long time.

[sarcasm]Anyone interested in becoming a Nutrilite or Vemma distributor?[/sarcasm]

As of lately I've been getting tons of spam... in Arabic...

Makes me wonder if they are even trying...



I'd upload a screenshot but it doesn't seem to be working right now...

This past week, I've been getting stuff in French. Seems like legitimate businesses (one was a hypnotist, for shows I guess) but I'm not sure how I got in a French spam list...

nope, it is paying £1600 for £800 of hardware because there is an apple logo on it :P