Criminal Defense Law With An Apple

The folks at  Cult of Mac were sent an interesting email:

Hi,
The reason am writing to you is that your book is among first to
sell in amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/steve-jobs-Books/s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Steve%20Jobs&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3ASteve%20Jobs&page=1

I will try to be as short as possible:

2 years ago, I set a amazon.com fake page, and sent emails to different IT people around the globe. Among some other unknown person, Steve Jobs got my mail, he didn’t notice the scam I set so he “updated” his amazon account with data( name, address, credit card number, phone, amazon user and password) which I received, sent to my mail.

Now, it was not my intention to misuse his account (which is still untouched!), the sole purpose was if the “scam” was so perfect that even IT Guru’s will fall on it.

I saw you are the bestseller with a book on S.Jobs, I still have access on his amazon.com account, with all his purchase/interest details for 6-7 years. Now I just checked again, and he didn’t use it since December 22 last year, for reasons known to us.

I intent to sell this information, that’s why I picked you as first on the list.

If you are not interested, am sure other book authors on SJ life (Jeffrey Young, William Simon, Alan Deutschman, Anthony Imbimbo, Daniel Lyons or any others) will be very interested to know about this.

Hope to hear from you,

Regards

p.s. I can provide “print screens” logged in SJ amazon account.

You can read the full post on how this email spear-phishing-for-whales-ploy is playing out here.

Apparently, there is a email phishing scam that is telling former dot mac users to head over to a web site and reenter all their data. Of course this is just a ruse to get you to hand over all your data (including your credit card number). As Apple-users, we have already become complacent to viruses and adware. That is fine. But we need to be aware that so long as we are connected to the internet, there is always potential for harm. Worse still, phishing scams can be the most devastating. If you use 1Password, you are protected from some of the well known phishing sites. Nevertheless, these phishing outfits are ever growing (and I doubt any company can keep up with these kind of social engineering scams). The simple rule is this: do not enter websites through your email unless you are 100% certain of the source. Good luck and surf safe.