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You won’t be fooled by hysterical phishing emails, but you know people who will

Once again there’s a new iCloud phishing email that is so poorly done that AppleInsider readers will be able to spot it, but will be shockingly effective to some susceptible to its hysteria, its appalling grammar, and its blinding font choices.

Cloud storage renewal payment failed, warning that your photos and videos will be deleted.
Detail from an apparently hysterical but really much more sophisticated phishing attempt

You’ve been using Apple gear for long enough that if you don’t happen to have had emails from the company, you at least know what they would be like. Or what they would not be like.

Apple does not use exclamation marks. It doesn’t use one, it certainly doesn’t use two in a row.

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