I get the same e-mail. And like Raven, I don't even own any Apple products.

I often get an e-mail from Bank of America telling me I MUST log-on right now because my account has been compromised. When I read further, I notice all the typos.

I feel bad for the people who believe this is true.

If I ever get such an email, like from my credit card or my bank, I contact said institution using a number or email I already have, not the one in the message!

I've received THAT email.....no Apple here either.

I'm still getting the emails that money is being held in Nigeria if I could only pay the taxes on it, it would ALL be mine, AS IT SHOULD BE....:0) ha ha

I do have Apple and I got a message that I had to update my browser, Safari. Click here. Of course I didn't do that. Apple updates are automatic and I know that was just a scam. It does bother me that I do not trust anything that I see on my computer anymore.

Had 5 voicemails this week from Apple support. Never owned apple and never will. My husband got a voicemail yesterday talking in Chinese so who knows what they wanted, don't speak the language. Mary

I get telephone calls w/strange accents saying my "microsoft account has been compromised". I tell them they are scumbag scammers & I'm going to report them to the police, and they get really mad.

Send the scammers a link to the IRS telling them you have stored your new password there.

I'm getting emails from a bogus Netflix knockoff telling us we're locked out and need to log in and change our password. We're also getting legit emails from Netflix asking if we recently tried accessing our account.

I like the recordings that start out, "This is not a solicitation."

I'm so old that I remember when I got my first solicitation from a Nigerian prince -- by fax!

Paypal has locked me out! It's a potential breach. They are looking out for my best interest. Just log into the following address.....it had "Armpit" in the address link. ha ha NEVER! But that made me smile...

Don't worry about it, it told me I was locked out also and I believe its a scam, I was not locked out.

I’ve gotten a couple calls from “Apple Inc.”. I’ve never seen Apple call it self Apple Inc., so I didn’t pick up the phone. No way is Apple calling me. There must be billions of Apple products out there, and they’re certainly not going to call one person.

I got the “hi grandma” call yesterday from a slightly mature voice. Hung up.

Want to,

one of my friends fell for that one. Got $5,000 from her!

Speaking of Apple, I received an email from. Apple ID yesterday regarding a purchase from the App Store. It was for 49.99 and a Visa card was used. I never placed an order so tried to figure out the best way to get in touch with store. I did look up the address to send that email to them as it could be a phishing scam but didn't find where to contact them about stopping the order if it was actually ordered. The email didn't ask for any information though . Today I called my Visa card company to see if a purchase had been made yesterday. They said no and that it would show up on their end if it had been used. She said to watch the next statement and if a purchase was there that I didn't make to contact them. It made me think though that I should make my Apple password a little stronger!!

I check my CC online daily instead of waiting for the statement to come at end of month. Now I have to do it with checking account. Some how Comcast who we dont have in NY and have never had dealings with took $60 out of our account. Bank gave a credit and put in a dispute. Contacted Comcast security department and gave them info but they never got back to me why this happened. Mary

My credit card sends me a text each time my card is used showing amount charged and business name. The text is sent immediately.

I was at the local cable branch this week and as I waited I heard the conversation of an 88 yr old gentleman that just broke my heart. He started out "I got an email last week saying I was locked out of my Spectrum account." He wound up giving them everything they wanted to know, including his social security #. Evidently now he knows that was wrong and I kept hearing "Oh boy, I'm in trouble." Hope he makes out OK.

I got an email message from a bank (we don't have a large number of banks in Canada) that I don't do business with telling me that there is security problem, to call xxx-xxxx number. A couple of days later, from another unused bank, same message, and later I think one with similar message, purportedly from a third bank ... then a repeat or two, I'm to call a different number, same bank.

I'm planning to visit a branch of those banks, asking whether they'd like to call that number. If they refuse ... then I ask how can I know whether any message that I get on the internet, purportedly from them ... is real/to be believed?

A fairly shrewd guy that I know says that everything that you do on the internet is public property, like publishing it in the newspaper, years ago was.

He won't do any banking or other privacy sensitive issues on the internet, and I've chosen not to do that, either.

Don't do investing on the internet, either, but that gets difficult, as the agencies want to do the accounting/messaging digitally.

Phone company, also - they were reluctant to bill me on paper ... but I have my bank pay them directly from, my account.

Confession time - I do pay my paper-based power and oil bills directly from bank account. They want me to go digital.

ole joyful

That is so sad Breenthumb. A friend of mine fell for the "grandson" needing money and she lost $5,000.

Kathy, it's a hard time for people who are not "connected" enough to know what's going on. My eye doctor told me the surgeon in their practice got a call from his mother who insisted his office call him to the phone right now for the same grandson scam. Sorry about your friend.

I bought a new wired home phone a couple of months ago for its call blocking feature and it has a prescreening calls feature... I set it up to require callers to say their name and then press pound for the call to ring through. I get about 80 calls per month that never press the pound key to ring through. 'Smart Call Blocker' phone... ATT, Panasonic, and some others use the 'Smart Call Blocker' chipset. Greatest thing ever for stopping solicitors. You can allow family/friends or keywords in caller id to bypass the prescreen message.