Just received an email
Friday, May 07, 2010
Subject: Thank you for buying iTunes Gift Certificate!
Just before I deleted this email from my spam filter, I just thought I’d check it out. Whilst I was quite certain it was a scam, I also think many people will be tricked with this free offer of an iTunes Gift Certificate.
The body of this email contains the following:
Hello!
You have received an iTunes Gift Certificate in the amount of $50.00 You can find your certificate code in attachment below.
Then you need to open iTunes. Once you verify your account, $50.00 will be credited to your account, so you can start buying music, games, video right away.
iTunes Store.
There’s no company logo – and the next clue is the email contains the attachment iTunes_certificate_197.zip and in the attachment is the program file iTunes_certificate_197.exe.
Alarm bells ring when someone sends an .exe file as an attachment – you’ve been warned
Next BAS due
1 response so far ↓
1 Lauren // May 7, 2010 at 8:24 pm
Just received one of these! Glad I checked for scams! It says that it was meant to be sent to a [another email address]