Apple + Security & Privacy

Computerworld reports that hundreds of MobileMe users have been taken in by a sleek phishing scam. Purporting to be from Apple, e-mail messages took advantage of the recent change from .Mac to MobileMe, telling users that they needed to update credit card information. Some 100-200 users were snagged in a single day, giving away credit card numbers, addresses, birth dates, passwords and more.

We reported this on August 12, when the first phishing e-mails were spotted in the wild, but the Computerworld article is a gauge of the success of this “campaign” in just a few days.

Remember that Apple will never send you a message asking you to log in to your account in this manner, and if you have any doubts, you should always log in directly to your account (in this case, by typing www.mobileme.com in your browser).