Scam e-mails particularly crafted for hitting Apple clients and masquerading as Apple communications have been found to presently circulate online, published cnet.com dated December 19, 2011.
Reportedly, with the sender's address as one rediffmail.com account, the e-mail states that Apple has released one exclusive version of iPhone namely I Phone 4STEVE valuing USD1,000,000.00, 250,000,000.00 as a mark of honor to Steve Jobs co-founder, Apple, following his death a few months back. The company, to execute the product's promotion across different countries, selected winners from a PC ballot, shuffling e-mail ids of 25,000 firms and 40,000 individuals belonging to America, Europe, Africa, Asia, Australia & Oceania, and Antarctica. In this lottery game, Apple formally declares that this reader's e-mail id too is a selected one, the message tells the recipient. Continuing further, the e-mail states that for starting the validation procedure, the recipient needs to get in touch with his claims manager right away, providing details such as name, gender, occupation, contact address, and phone number. ... Read the rest of: Phishing E-mails Purporting to be Apple Communications Detected |
