I got hit by the about ten minutes ago myself, before seeing your lost linked form MacSurfer. It was reasonably convincing; for a moment I thought it might have been some glitch with the MobileMe changeover.
Seems like phishermen would spend more time on editing their copy. I can’t imagine Apple (who does employ copyreaders) would allow an email to go out with a comma where a period should be, or with garbled syntax such as “correct july [whoops, should be upper case] 2008.
@I’m Randy Harris: I actually got the same email, but it was worded slightly differently: We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?
To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today by clicking here , After a few clicks, just verify the information you entered is correct.
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I got hit by the about ten minutes ago myself, before seeing your lost linked form MacSurfer. It was reasonably convincing; for a moment I thought it might have been some glitch with the MobileMe changeover.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 1:20 pm ¶I’ve contacted Apple Security, they notified their .mac team for remediation!
Quick response!
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 1:46 pm ¶Seems like phishermen would spend more time on editing their copy. I can’t imagine Apple (who does employ copyreaders) would allow an email to go out with a comma where a period should be, or with garbled syntax such as “correct july [whoops, should be upper case] 2008.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 4:36 pm ¶@I’m Randy Harris:
I actually got the same email, but it was worded slightly differently:
We were unable to process your most recent payment. Did you recently change your bank, phone number or credit card?
To ensure that your service is not interrupted, please update your billing information today by clicking here , After a few clicks, just verify the information you entered is correct.
Posted 09 Jul 2008 at 4:48 pm ¶I’ve probably received 10 copies of this. I’ve sent them all to Apple and the MobileMe team is working on it.
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