Imposter scams where the scammer poses as a company with which we all do business and then creates a phony emergency to lure you into providing personal information or clicking on a malware infected link is a common scam.  Often the scam starts when you receive an email that purports to be from a popular company with which many of us do business that often indicates that there is a serious problem with your account that is resulting your account being terminated unless you follow their instructions. In most versions of this scam, as in the email shown below, the scammer indicates there is a problem with your billing information and that your account will be terminated unless you click on a link and provide credit card information.  As with many scams, the scammer creates a phony emergency that is intended to appeal to the part of the targeted victim’s brain that prompts us to act quickly and emotionally in emergency situations rather than rationally considering the situation.  Anyone clicking on the link would be taken to an official appearing, but counterfeit site where they would be prompted to turn over their credit card information to the scammers.

The copied email below, which was sent to me by a longtime Scamicide subscriber appears to come from Apple’s iCloud, but there are a lot of indications that this is not legitimate.  First and foremost, it was sent from an email address that has nothing to do with Apple or iCloud.  Additionally, apparently the scammers haven’t yet taken advantage of using Artificial Intelligence in their phishing emails because the grammar is horrendous where it reads “in case of ignorance your services will be completely suspended.  Here is a copy of the email sent to the Scamicide subscriber.  I have removed her name and email address and have disarmed the link in the email.

☁ iCloud