{"id":345,"date":"2016-03-08T09:57:17","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/wordpress\/?p=345"},"modified":"2016-03-08T09:57:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T09:57:54","slug":"gone-phishin-be-warned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"Gone Phishin’ (Be Warned)"},"content":{"rendered":"

As you may know, I don\u2019t usually send out anti-virus \/ scam warnings – my feeling is that a few common sense precautions and a healthy dose of suspicion should be sufficient to keep you safe. However, an attempt was made to scam me today which was convincing enough that I feel that I should warn you all – just in case you’re tempted to believe it.<\/p>\n

I received a text message this morning warning me that my Apple ID had been locked, and inviting me to visit a non-Apple domain with an insecure website (note that the real Apple ID reset URL is https:\/\/appleid.apple.com). Note also that ICLOUD is incorrectly capitalised.
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In the interests of research, I visited the URL (without being daft enough to enter my credentials):\"Screen<\/a>Note that this page is a carbon copy of the official page – but the URL at the top is wrong, and it’s unprotected (no SSL – no padlock).<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve fallen for this scam already then change your Apple ID password immediately (log in at https:\/\/appleid.apple.com<\/a>) and contact Apple using the details on this page http:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/contact\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

How could I tell that this was a scam?<\/p>\n

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  1. The alert came in as a text \/ iMessage rather than an alert box on my iPhone \/ iPad \/ iPod \/ Mac \/ PC<\/li>\n
  2. The website that I was directed to was insecure (http rather than https) – you can tell by the lack of padlock.<\/li>\n
  3. The domain had only just been registered, and is not registered to Apple.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I have flagged this issue with Apple Security. I’ll keep you posted of any updates that I might get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As you may know, I don\u2019t usually send out anti-virus \/ scam warnings – my feeling is that a few common sense precautions and a healthy dose of suspicion should be sufficient to keep you safe. However, an attempt was made to scam me today which was convincing enough that I feel that I should … <\/p>\n

    Continue reading “Gone Phishin’ (Be Warned)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,23,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.45rpmsoftware.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}