Warning: An Apple scam!

[JoM]

Now isn't this interesting, we have house full of Apple and no emails here

Same here Shell

[molly]

Now isn't this interesting, we have house full of Apple and no emails here

Same here Shell

Same here too.

[Osc]

Lots of Apple here too and no email Gal I've also had one or two supposed to be from Paypal, but would just delete the email and check my account to make sure all is ok. As you say, awful to think that someone more trusting would respond to these emails in some way

[Kaz]

Yes, you should never ever go into PayPal or similar via an email link, you need to log into the actual account via the net to check authenticity!

[Workingman]

Yes, you should never ever go into PayPal or similar via an email link, you need to log into the actual account via the net to check authenticity!

..... or Amazon, eBay, your bank.......

The 'hook', if I can call it that, with some of these scams is to get a reaction of "What!, I don't use xyz. I'll sort this out!" and from there it is all downhill. With regards to Paypal and its e-mails. It has been reported many times for providing links in its e-mails, genuine links, that could be from planet Zarg for the way they look. Paypal is a menace to itself sometimes and the only way I ever check is to login to their site from a known good link.

[Gal]

Oh gosh yes, that's the first thing I did! I'd never dream of going to it via an email link!

I think most of us here are internet savvy enough to know these things, but imagine if you weren't??

[KateLMead]

What would we do without you Frank.xxxx

[miasmum]

I just looked for this to show Tim and ask him why us Apple Mac people didn't get emails. He says its because the Apple servers are more sophisticated in picking these things up. Which would make sense as we rarely get the rubbish spam that others do. We don't have any spam software, its just Apple is good at filtering

Would you agree with that Jo, Molly, Osc etc?

[Workingman]

That would not be the case if you use Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo etc.......... via the Internet, though if you use the Apple OS X Mail client (other clients are available) on your Mac it is recognised as having strong spam filtering built in.

The thing is that it is not sent to Apple account holders, per se, it is sent blind and the hook is to get the reaction "I don't have an Apple account!" and for many people that prompts further investigation........ investigation that gets you scammed as soon as a link is pressed.

[lissie]

I got one from PayPal yesterday about my account (i don`t have one )

lissie