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I would only hope that most people would remember that any email, no matter how official looking could be the creation of someone looking to take advantage of you in some way. Unfortunately, there are plenty of people who are not quite as suspicious, perhaps its a good thing in that they trust people, or perhaps they just click away at any link in an email without a second though because they truly do not know any better.

Well these types of phishing scams typically result from a well know issue, which with all the MobileMe troubles that we have been seeing, I guess I should not be all that surprised to see this happen.

In a recent interview with Computerworld, Dan Clements the president of CardCops reported that they recently “found 20 different files parked on the server, each file with two or three or four, up to 20, profiles.” All in all he stated there were about 300 profiles collected, and of that up to 200 of them were emails ending with mac.com. Clements went on to call a number of people that had fallen for the attack and later determined that people had apparently become so used to the MobileMe service acting up, that they did not think twice about clicking a link that claimed of MobileMe payment problems.

This is certainly not the first phishing scam, and not the first that targeted Apple customers either. What we have to remember, and perhaps more important is to spread the word to anyone we know that is not as computer friendly.

Do not click on any link in an email. If you receive an email claiming there is an issue with one of your accounts, just close your email, and open a browser and directly type in the website that you think may need some updating. Or in some cases just pick up the phone and call the company or service directly.

While it seems these attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated, we, as users have to be careful.