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I received e-mail <link removed>
Apple Payment Payment Has Been Complete:please check your Receipt Customer ID-899782.nice day Thursday, October 11,2018#95647
to [email protected]
bcc @yahoo.com
date today at 2:15 PM
Apple Payment <link removed>
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Dancing Line By Cheetah Technology Corp. Limited Price $9.99 Order #MMJD56W68K Billed to: iTune Store Credit Name Products: Large Coin Box
Type:in-App Purchases
Pricing:$9.99
Payment Method Credit iTune Store






Added information below: Note the poor spelling of English.

What these people want you to do is follow their directions in the downloaded PDF receipt, telling you if you did not order this item click on this (iTunes Payment Cancelation Form and follow the steps.)
If you do this it would take you to a non secure online address giving them your information or allowing them to get inside your computer.
 
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wish I had the link or pdf, id try it on my old iMac to see what happens. id like to know if they could really get access to my mac.
 
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wish I had the link or pdf, id try it on my old iMac to see what happens. id like to know if they could really get access to my mac.

I don't think it would be a good idea you really never know what it might do and later, you again might use it or someone else might buy it from you and cause them a lot of trouble.
These people are going to a lot of trouble trying to gain inroads to peoples systems.
 
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Now that would be most unwise macgig. Never give these criminals a chance.
 
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its on an old imac running el capitan. the hard drives been wiped, and I don't log into any websites on that mac. I dont enter any information on that mac. it's my experimental machine. if they gained access theirs no personal information for them to get. I use it to check out the live phishing links at https://openphish.com/

its good to know what these phishing sites look like. some of them look very real. they could fool anyone even someone like me that have used macs for years. some of them look like real apple sites.
 
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its on an old imac running el capitan. the hard drives been wiped, and I don't log into any websites on that mac. I dont enter any information on that mac. it's my experimental machine. if they gained access theirs no personal information for them to get. I use it to check out the live phishing links at https://openphish.com/

its good to know what these phishing sites look like. some of them look very real. they could fool anyone even someone like me that have used macs for years. some of them look like real apple sites.

Not long ago i was working with Apples support because i had received an e-mail that really looked like from Apples web site, and because i clicked on it and then noticed some differences i called Apple and they said it would be best if i candled my credit card used in iTune store and also i needed a new Apple password, this really caused me a lot of work contacting all the people using my old credit card and getting my Apple password changed.

This phishing attack happened after the above, i don't feel it had anything to do with it just happened at this time.
 
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I‘ve gotten many of those. Forward them to Apple and forget about them.
 
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I wonder if apple really does anything with them, or is it just something to make us feel they do.
Does it really matter? If you don't feel they do anything, then why send it to them?
 
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Does it really matter? If you don't feel they do anything, then why send it to them?

I did not post i don't feel they are doing anything, i just wondered if they really were doing anything.
Hope this makes my post clearer in your understanding it .
 
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Why do you feel, they are not doing anything?
 
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But you were wondering.....
 
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But you were wondering.....

Wondering is wondering nothing else, if Apple would post something telling us that our sending the reports of Phishing, was really helping them in making our Apple products safer for us i would feel better.
 
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Buy some stocks, they have more communication with their owners.
 
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Buy some stocks, they have more communication with their owners.

What stocks how would that get Apple to give information? i just bought a new iPhone and new iPad i have no money for stocks.
 

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