If you receive a text message on the phone says he was sent by the Apple support where they are asked to share details about the user name and Apple ID account password should not reply or click on the link provided: it is a scam.
As reported by the the Independent , some users of the iPhone, mainly British, are receiving messages where the sender poses as the Apple support service and asks access to a web site to update the access data to your Apple account, or your username and password, two extremely sensitive data, since whoever is in possession can ‘have access to the entire Apple account.
We must therefore know that the Apple ID will not expire, so any email or SMS asking you to update the data to prevent the profile from being put out are simply scams.
About looms in the scam, then access the website listed in the message and inserts their Apple ID information, it is actually only providing criminals a key to enter his own AppleID profile, which could be used to gain access to personal information of clients, including the number of passport and credit card information.
the message is of the type: “[Name] your Apple ID is due today. To avoid closure confirm the data to [address] – Apple Support. “
Apple at the time made no official comment, but the online support the precise Cupertino group page that the company does not contact never their customers via messages. “As a general rule, never send credit card information, account passwords, or other personal information in an email unless you verify that the recipient is who they say be “, says the company an official support page.
This type of scams do not circulate only via sMS but also often by mail, and are called ‘phishing’ and not just involving the Apple users if someone receives an email from a company (whether it’s PayPal, eBay, Google, etc.) in which you are prompted to ask questions of access to your own account, you need to examine the sender of the message.
If you receive a message or an e-mail which states that your account to a service to which you subscribed has been compromised, to be sure it is good DO NOT CLICK oN aNY LINKS iN THIS mESSAGE, then just open the web browser, go to the homepage of the service in question, and then come in and change the password: this must be done directly in the official website of the service, not clicking on links in messages that you receive.
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