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Join Date: May 2004
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Hey all, out shopping tonight, got an email that the "Shipping or billing address" on my AppleID account had been changed today.
Well, no. Not by me. Immediate password reset went okay, then tried to login through appleid.apple.com to see what the address change was about. Server timed out. Repeatedly. Waited until I got home, tried it again, finally got through, and no address changes that I can see. Assuming at this point that the initial email was bogus, and the server issues were due to a lot of bogus emails going out. Had to update my AppleID password on all my devices, so I know it did reset appropriately. Any other reports of this type of shenanigans going on tonight? |
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Nothing here or that I've read about.
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Formerly turtle2472 Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Upstate South Carolina
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I haven't personally, but I've seen tons of spam of this sort lately. Not one for iTunes/Apple though. I'll keep looking out for it and let you know if I see one.
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Join Date: Oct 2005
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You sure the email was from Apple?
Cause it kinda sounds like a fishing email. They make a fake "shipping address has been changed" email, you click the link to check it out, and presto, they have your password... |
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Join Date: May 2004
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Checked the URL before following, obviously, as well as the raw headers, and it *did* change the password on Apple's system. A fake page could have passed it through I suppose but everything looks correct.
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I am worthless beyond hope. Join Date: Dec 2005
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I have received a couple emails in the last few months in regard to changes to my apple account or calls to AppleCare.... none of which i did. I have called Apple to inquire about it and they know nothing about any contact with them using my account or any changes yet the emails were sent out.
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This is the first one where it indicated that information had been changed. But... all looks good. Never set up a credit card on this one (iCloud only, not iTunes store, that's a separate account), so I feel good about that. Going to chalk it up to an error on Apple's part at this point. |
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