Today we have very easy to know which applications access the personal data of our iPhone, although in the end this is not decisive to be one hundred percent safe. In the end, we are still the ones who decide to whom we give the data or not, and sometimes rushing or being distracted can be fatal. Scams to get our data pretending to be Apple are running through email inboxes again. We tell you how you can prevent it.
This is the deception that can endanger your data
There is a very popular phrase that says that classics never die and unfortunately it seems that this also applies depending on what scams carried out by cybercriminals. Phishing , which is the name by which the method used to impersonate another person or company is known, is still the order of the day. From banks, supermarkets and, of course, from companies like Apple.
Recently there have been several reported cases in which an email is received, supposedly from Apple, in which it is reported a purchase made in one of its stores for a value that is too high for the user to worry. And yes, sadly it is a scam. It is not new, it is true, since it has existed for years and although it seemed that lately they had already stopped with this type of scams because they are very obvious, they are returning to the burden with it.
The objective of those who issue these emails is that the user is scared and thinks that that amount of money is going to be charged to their card. For this reason, they add a link in which they are asked to confirm personal and payment data in order to be able to cancel the transaction. This link leads to a page that apparently looks like Apple’s, although there are cases where the assembly is very crappy.
A priori nothing happens to open the page itself, since if you have your device updated with the latest security patches, you can avoid possible malware. The problem comes if the data is entered, since these will end up in the hands of cybercriminals who, then, will take advantage of your card to carry out transactions of all kinds . You can cancel the card later and report it, of course, but you will not be assured of being able to recover the money they have spent on your behalf.
Tips to avoid falling into the trap
There are several keys to detecting that it is a scam, although common sense is above all. You should know that the apple company never acts in this way , since when you make a purchase you receive an invoice, but the procedure to make a return to Apple is very different and they will never ask you for your payment information to confirm. nothing, since it would be redundant if we consider that they already have that information.
Something that can also make you suspect is that the email has been sent to different recipients , something that by the Data Protection Law and the company’s privacy policies could never be carried out. Also the address from which the email comes can be decisive. And be careful, do not get confused with the name or the logo, look at the real address where the “@” is located. The official accounts of the company usually end in “@ apple.com” or @ apple.es “. It can also be @ email.apple.com or similar, but if the sender has a strange address with many mixed numbers and letters or is it “@ gmail.com”, “@ hotmail.com”, “@ outlook.com” or another domain used for personal accounts, be suspicious.
And in the face of the latter, although it is true that the addresses can be masked, to ensure completely it is convenient that you forward said email to any other account. Once you do, look at the address that appears in that forwarded message, since it will show the real address of the sender, regardless of whether or not it was initially masked.
Another tip we give you to prevent other people from being deceived is to proceed to report it to Apple. For this, the company has enabled a special account in which it is requested to forward all scams of this type. The address is reportphishing@apple.com , and you just have to forward the original message without adding anything else.