iTunes unsolicited Gift Card (a fraud?)

[Allan_L (Allan)]

I received an email from iTunes late last night claiming that I have received an iTunes Gift Certificate worth $500.00. The email contained an invoice paid by someone else's credit card.
There were a few hotlinks.

If this is a scam, and I am not entirely sure, it is pretty darn clever, at Christmas and all.

I don't think I know anyone who would give me $500 of itunes gift card.

And as they say, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.

Anyone else know of these?

[Shark Bait (Stu)]

I'd send a query off to iTunes and ask about it. I am sure that you have some very generous friends but this sounds a bit suspect.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Check your iTunes account and see if it has shown up. If it has just don't spend it and see if it suddenly vanishes.

I never view emails "as html" unless I've previously gone through all the URLs to see were they go. After all, who in their right mind would believe an Australian bank URL that goes to a Columbian host name.

[GeoffW1 (Geoff)]

Hi,

Made me think of this

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/c...208-2b1uk.html

Cheers

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Third such in two days:

Dear Friend,
Dear I wish to notify you that Late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch From Australia made you a beneficiary to its funds in United Kingdom. Please contact this Barrister Email Only........barr-louis-price@pkuit.com
Please Contact this email only ......
Barrister Louis.

Obviously someone has sold my address recently.

At least they are "topical" for a change.

[mithrandir (Andrew)]

Originally Posted by Allan_L

Third such in two days:


Obviously someone has sold my address recently.

At least they are "topical" for a change.

They are usually topical Allan. 1d10t5 are more likely to be interested in something new, celebrities, pornography, disasters, ...

A "UK barrister" with a Chinese email address

Domain Name: PKUIT.COM
Created on: 19-Sep-06
Expires on: 19-Sep-14
Last Updated on: 28-Dec-11

Registrant:
XUE LIREN
QiaoDongQuYiDeLong
XingTai, 054001
China

Maybe someone sold an address list. More likely someone who had you in their address list got pwned, or they just generated a list of possible email addresses at your ISP until they hit some live ones.

I'm running at about 30 spam emails a day and that's down quite a bit. If I only used email addresses for my own domain and redirected the MX records to point at my mail server I could bounce a lot of the crap. A shame all the ISPs don't do source filtering.

[Stardrifter_WA]

I got something similar and I just deleted it. Besides, I don't know anyone that would give me something without letting me know first, and furthermore would probably give it to me direct, in the form of a gift card, rather than an online gift anyway. I would never give anyone an online gift either.

Scammers are getting more sophisticated now.