"Unauthorized Login Attempts To Your Apple Account" Phishing Scam

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Updated: May. 15, 2019 2019-05-15T09:32:20
Posted: May. 15, 2019 2019-05-15T09:28:28
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The "Unauthorized Login Attempts To Your Apple Account" email message below which claims that there has been unauthorized login attempt to the recipient's Apple account, is another attempt by cybercriminals to steal their potential victims’ Apple account credentials. The fake email has links in it that go to a phishing Apple website which steals account usernames and password. The phishing website steals account credentials by asking visitors to sign-in with their Apple account usernames and passwords. Now, any attempt to sign into the fake or phishing website will result in the visitors’ Apple account credentials being sent to the cybercriminals responsible for the scam. Once the cyber crooks have gotten possession of the stolen account credentials, they will use it to hijack their victims’ Apple accounts and use the same accounts fraudulently.

The "Unauthorized Login Attempts To Your Apple Account" Phishing Scam

From: Apple - service@apple.com

Date: Sun, May 12, 2019 at 10:31 AM

Subject: Unauthorized Login Attempts to your Apple account

Apple

We detect unauthorized Login Attempts to your apple account from other Ip adress.

Please re-confirm your identity today or your account will be Locked ,

To re-confirm your Apple account , We recommend that you go to

Verify Now

Apple security center

1999-2018 Apple Inc

Regards.

The links in the fake email go to the following website:

hxxps://linkfox.io/4coEo

Apple users should never click on a link in an email message to sign into their accounts. They should instead, go directly to https://appleid.apple.com/ and sign-in from there. If there is something wrong with their accounts, they will be alerted after signing in. Users who were tricked by the phishing scam, are asked to change their Apple account passwords immediately before their accounts are hijacked and used fraudulently. For those users who are unable to change their passwords, are asked to contact Apple Technical Support for help.