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To worry about this email?

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spammed · 01/03/2018 01:30

Received this email about an app I have not purchased. Have gone on and deleted my card details from my apple account anyway.

Anyone had this? It’s from [email protected].

It was in my normal email folder, not junk.

No idea who the name is on the invoice!

To worry about this email?
To worry about this email?
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DramaAlpaca · 01/03/2018 01:34

I've had similar. It's spam.

Whatever you do, don't click on any of those links. Just delete & ignore.

spammed · 01/03/2018 01:34

I already did 🙈

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RealityHasALiberalBias · 01/03/2018 01:35

It’s just a phishing email - don’t open the attachment, delete and add to your spam filter blacklist. I get them all the time.

spammed · 01/03/2018 01:37

Since I clicked it, do I need to cancel
my cards completely? 😭

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Snowysky20009 · 01/03/2018 01:37

Don't open! And delete

QuestionableMouse · 01/03/2018 01:37

Legit emails will always use your name.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 01/03/2018 01:47

Always click on the senders email address, you will see the true email address hidden behind the name.
If further in doubt log into your iTunes independent of the email, never through the email.
You may now have a virus on your pc, not sure what you do once you’ve clicked on it. Can you access another pc to change your iTunes passsword? Any internet banking on your pc?

spammed · 01/03/2018 01:50

I opened it on my phone? Can’t even remember how to get into iTunes. My laptop isn’t working and my son uses my same account for his iPad?

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spammed · 01/03/2018 01:51

Have the internet banking app on my phone

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teaandtoast · 01/03/2018 01:52

Is that your name and address on the second pic? You might want to get it deleted.

spammed · 01/03/2018 01:54

No, that’s what I mean. No idea who that person is. It says it’s been billed to her and bought from her iPhone

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teaandtoast · 01/03/2018 01:57

Ha! You even put that in the op. No idea how I missed that!

Worth contacting your bank and Apple, maybe?

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 01/03/2018 01:58

What you should have done is ignored the email entirely; it’s spam. You didn’t need to delete your details from Apple because the email is not correlated with Apple.

However, now you’ve clicked the link there’s possibility of a virus.

Going forward from this you need to be more tech savvy. Never, ever click on a link in an email unless you’re absolutely sure you know where it is going, and you should make sure you know all your passwords, especially for important accounts like Apple.

That person likely won’t exist, OP, because it’s spam.

OnlyFoolsnMothers · 01/03/2018 02:00

No one has bought anything, the email is the scam. Disconnect your phone from the WiFi to stop them linking to other devices (I heard this once). How much personal info
Did you submit?

spammed · 01/03/2018 02:01

Yes, I know, it threw me because it was in my proper inbox and I thought my son must have purchased something. When I clicked the cancellation form link it was asking me to register for something, which obviously i didn’t do

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spammed · 01/03/2018 02:02

I didn’t enter any info.

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WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 01/03/2018 02:04

Did you not notice the spelling error in the title, though?

And why did you click the cancellation form link when the name and address wasn’t yours?

PyongyangKipperbang · 01/03/2018 02:04

I get these several times a day, I just ignore and delete.

I have a hotmail.com address that I have had since before they inroduced the co.uk option & I get a lot more spam than DH who has a co.uk. I can only assume its because the spammers think I am American. For reasons I have never managed to work out, I get absolutely LOADS for Mario! Poor Mario, he doesnt earn enough, he cannot satisfy a woman in bed, has a tiny floppy penis and only has sex (on the odd occassion he manages it) with prostitutes. At least thats what his emails imply :o

DeadMorose · 01/03/2018 02:07

If you didn’t write any information to the page it sent you to, you should be safe. It’s trying to get your card details and/or Apple ID password.
If you are ABSOLUTELY sure you didn’t write anything, but instead went into your settings and deleted card details from there, that is.

spammed · 01/03/2018 02:08

Yes, I get lots too and I normally ignore, but I’ve had a shit night, i was half asleep and assumed my DS bought something. I clicked the link because I it wasn’t my details.

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NightRaven52 · 01/03/2018 02:10

I've been receiving a lot of emails like these lately, that somehow keep avoiding my junk folder. They are 100% scam. I had two separate ones in the space of three hours today, similar to this and claiming I'd purchased a monthly app subscription through PayPal (which I never use).

Btw I don't know if other big companies do this too, but you can forward bogus PayPal emails to [email protected] to report them.

NightRaven52 · 01/03/2018 02:14

Also on iPhone, if you click the email address, it should open up like a contact and will show any hidden email addresses

WhatToDoAboutThis2017 · 01/03/2018 02:14

Well the reason is by the by. You need to be more tech savvy, particularly if you’re using online and mobile banking.

Even though it sounds like you may have got off Scot free this time, I suggest a change for all your passwords and for you to make sure you know them all so you have easy access should problems arise in the future.

Clem7 · 01/03/2018 02:50

I’ve got so many of these since having to open an Apple account. I’m usually pretty savvy but one nearly got me. Report it.

PyongyangKipperbang · 01/03/2018 03:23

I got a paypal one once that caught me out. It is so easily done, they are clever bastards.

It was only when I was reading it that I realised it had been sent to my hotmail email and not the gmail address I also have which was used for paypal. It was so convincing and I pride myself on being tech savvy.

It must be lucrative enough for them to do it, which means many people must fall for it :(

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