It’s her birthday, but I’m currently traveling. I need to get iTunes gift cards for my niece. Hackers took control of her email account and sent everyone in her contacts an email asking for a favour. "Take extra security precautions whenever you can by looking for websites with ' enabling two-step authentication on Gmail, and never perform secure transactions on public WiFi.A Fredericton woman was recently the target of an email scam that preys on the generosity of her friends and contacts. In general, you should never open attachments when you don't know the sender or they look suspect, reminds Rachel Rothman, Chief Technologist at the Good Housekeeping Institute. Instead, go to "Settings" on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch, and select "iTunes & App Store." Tap your Apple ID, then View Apple ID (this will prompt you for your password, and that's okay) Subscriptions and Manage to see a list of your subscriptions, suggests Lewis Heayns, Test Engineer in the Good Housekeeping Consumer Electronics and Engineering Lab. If you get this email, do not click the link.
It might seem like an obvious tip-off (why would you be buying a Netflix subscription from the iTunes Store?), but if you use Apple TV, you might have purchased one from the App Store. If you click the link, it takes you to a site that looks just like an Apple website, and asks for your account details and credit card info in order to issue your "refund." Apple said in a statement on its website, "The iTunes Store will never ask you to provide personal information or sensitive account information (such as passwords or credit card numbers) via email." Dont click the link! /YGvPCZTwK6- Olly Hallam August 21, 2016 Very believable email scam just came through.
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