Spam Warning: Apple Alert Regarding Your Recent Purchase
This email has been seen by a number of people this week - it is not a particularly convincing one, but it deserves to be mentioned in case it may cauase any damage...
The email appears as:
From: Apple Inc <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 7:22 PM
To: Recipient
Subject: Apple Alert Regarding Your Recent Purchase
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| Recent Order | |
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| Your Apple ID was just used to purchase from Apple Online store on a device that hadn't previously been related with your ID. You may be getting this e-mail if you reset your password since your previous order.
If you placed this order, you can disregard this e mail. It was only sent notify to you in case you didn't make the purchase yourself. See Details Here In case you did not make this purchase, we highly recommend that you go to to modify your security password, then see Apple ID: Security and your Apple ID for additional assistance All the best,
Apple Team | |
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| Apple ID Summary Terms of Sale Privacy Policy | |
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| Copyright 2018 Apple Inc., | |
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The email addres obviously doesn't stack as it is from [email protected] and not Apple and the link described as see details here is pointing to http://dryerventwizarduniversity.mobi?3I=QIUBNYQASHUBQYUDP which again isn't a very convincing domain as it doesn't even have Apple in it.
If you do click the link you are taken to a non-existant website and so the email can do no harm:
Either way this email shoudl be marked as spam and the address marked as a spam source.
The IdealOfficeInc.com has no SPF record:
and so this may well be why it was chosen. SPF (Sender Policy Framework) is a simple way of informing other email servers of which IP addresses your emails are likely to originate from and not having one means that poeple are more likely to spoof your address as we see in this case.
At sircles we would always advise having a full SPF and DKIM/DMARC set of records to stop spammers impersonating you.
