IOS asks the user for their iTunes password for many reasons, the most common ones are recently installed iOS operating system updates, or iOS apps that are stuck during installation. As a result, users are trained to just enter their Apple ID password whenever iOS prompts you to do so.

​ + + Clever Phishing Scam Targets Your Apple ID and Password Posted on August 5th, 2016 by Apple users need to be aware of an ongoing phishing campaign that appears to be ramping up efforts the past couple days. Scammers have found a clever way to generate phishing websites—and they're after your Apple ID and password. What's happening is an active phishing campaign by way of fake Apple websites attempting to slurp up as many Apple IDs and passwords as possible.

We've seen these types of phishing scams before, but the person or group behind this campaign appears to be very determined, creating tens and possibly hundreds of phishing websites all designed to steal your Apple ID and password. Streams of these phishing pages have been uncovered the past two days, and subsequently posted to Twitter by vigilant users in the security community: Clever way to generate page: — ExecuteMalware (@executemalware) verify-payment-account.]com host cc — JAMESWT (@JAMESWT_MHT) Upon discovery, many of these phishing websites have, of course, been shut down. But the scam isn't over.

New sites appear to be popping up, all registered under the same name, email address and country. One of the new scam sites is currently catching anti-phishing filters in some browsers, but not others.

For example, as of this writing Firefox does not alert visitors of a phishing attempt to one of the malicious sites: Google's Chrome browser will alert visitors of the deceptive site: Apple's Safari browser will also alert visitors of the suspected phishing site: The duplicating phishing site, which is popping up under numerous URLs, is so deceptive it even offers legitimate links to Apple.com in order to trick unsuspecting visitors into thinking the page is legit. Therefore, as we head into the weekend, we strongly encourage everyone to be vigilant about where you enter personal information online. We will keep you updated as this story evolves, but in the meantime, there are a few things to keep in mind to stay safe. How scammers trick you into visiting phishing sites Phishing scams have been causing serious problems for email users seemingly forever. Most of the time, phishing emails arrive in your inbox (or junk email, depending on your rules) pretending to from be your bank, utility company or other online payment system you use.

Best free font manager for mac 2017. Those messages request you to verify your accounts or to confirm your billing information, often leading victims to spoofed sites that ask you to update your credit card information or other identifying information. Although such scams, phishing emails and websites pretending to be from Apple are not as common, but they do happen. You have probably seen Apple phishing emails in your email junk box—unfortunately, some of these bogus. Just the other day I got one from a scammer phishing for my Apple ID.