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<\/a><\/p>\nAs is often the case, these e-mails look somewhat legitimate; though you can see here a subtotal of “$050.99”, from a unit price of $180.99, which was charged for a single “Digital 45.” And the “Order Total” at the top doesn’t match any of the other numbers. Well, give them credit for getting the logo correct…<\/p>\n
This specific spam just takes users to a web site selling bogus meds. Others may have other effects, and many e-mails of this type are phishing attempts, which try to get users to log into a fake web page and give up credentials for an account. <\/p>\n
As always, you can hover your cursor over the links in e-mail messages to see where those links actually go. Make sure you do that to check links before clicking them; even better, don’t click links in e-mails if you’re not 100% certain that they are legitimate. If you do have an iTunes account, just log into it via iTunes; in fact, you can’t access it via the web at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Recent reports from an especially clueless TV station in Ohio suggested that an “iTunes virus” was circulating by e-mail. Well, there is no such thing; and the TV station (which we won’t even bother to link to; no need to get people to their site) fixed the article to explain that it is not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[72],"class_list":["post-2055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-apple","category-security-privacy","tag-itunes-spam-phishing"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t