Were seeing a fair amount of bogus Apple Store Order Notification spam emails that are sufficiently confusing to end users that they are frequently resending these to themselves after our filtering initially blocks them.
The emails present themselves as:
Subject: ID:921-818692 Apple Store Order Notification
From: “Apple Store” <Store@apple.com>
The “Order ID Number” for each spam can be random, which helps these spam emails to appear legitimate and also to help evade many spam filters.
The sending address is spoofed, and the emails themselves are quite simple:
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These spoofed emails are intended to cause the recipient to click on the “Order Information” link which will take users to any number of hijacked web sites and domains.
The hijacked sites will then automatically redirect to a variety of common “Canadian Pharmacy” type web sites such as tabletrxdrugspills.com and medicarerxdrugstore.com among many others.
For example:
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In short, if you didn’t recently order anything from the Apple Store, then simply discard these emails, and if your spam filter deletes them (like ours) then leave them deleted.
If you DID just order something from Apple, make sure to “mouse over” the hyper-linked “Order Information” link before clicking it in order to verify it really leads to an apple.com web site.
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