Phishing emails from Apple

[pmrid (Peter)]

My wife has received 2 emails in successive days which I am treating as phishing attempts. The first purports to be from Apple's Rosedale Center in New York and refers to a purchase she made there and encloses a receipt/invoice. She hasn't opened that document yet so I can't say for sure what it is.
Needless to say she has never purchased any apple products and certainly not from the Rosedale Center.
The second email came this morning and is a request to participate in a survey - how did you like our service - sort of thing. Once again, she has not clicked on the link tio the survey so I don't know what is there.

But I wonder if anyone else has been receiving these sorts of emails.

Peter

[Octane (Humayun)]

Hover your mouse over any links in the email. If they're not pointing to any *apple.com* domains, then, they're more than likely dodgy.

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[Amaranthus (Barry)]

I've got similar things recently - especially false app purchases that cost >$50 (enough to make people say, 'hey what?'). Hovering shows they were fraudulent.

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

I've had them. Deleted immediately as I possess nothing from Steve

Cheers

[Nikolas (Nik)]

100000000000000000000000% scam delete them.

[jjjnettie (Jeanette)]

I received one telling me that Apple had been hacked and that I needed to re enter my details "click here".
I deleted it straight away.
but I see that enough people have been caught out that it's made the news.

[Draco (Draco)]

Hi Peter

If you want to be a bit "adventurous" and find out what virus/malware must be sending that email, you can save that email attachment to your desktop, then upload it to http://www.virustotal.com . This is an online virus scanner, which actually checks the uploaded sample against alot of the popular virus scanners. Make sure to delete the attachment and email after.

However, being the ever so cautious person, I would not recommend saving the attachment. just delete the email

[Regulus (Trevor)]

There was a report in the Herald Sun today that users of the iPad, iPhone etc need to change their passwords urgently because of a security breach at the iStore

[hobbit]

Originally Posted by Regulus

There was a report in the Herald Sun today that users of the iPad, iPhone etc need to change their passwords urgently because of a security breach at the iStore

Yep. I work at Telstra and our tech support calls went through the roof from that.

[Steffen]

Originally Posted by Regulus

There was a report in the Herald Sun today that users of the iPad, iPhone etc need to change their passwords urgently because of a security breach at the iStore

Ahh, the Herald Sun, my favourite publication. Soft, thick and thoroughly absorbent...

Cheers
Steffen.