Seems like every week we’re seeing new scams out there. Here’s one that’s affecting lots of people in the Apple ecosystem. There are many emails out there being sent to people that tell you your iCloud storage is full and that they’re going to delete all of your files and photo, they attempt to get you to click a link provide them a credit card, and update your Apple iCloud storage. There’s only one problem with this. They’re all fake.

This is just another example of social engineering. Social engineering is an attempt to get you to cause your self problems or provide private information like credit card data to the scammer. They don’t get into your computer, they don’t hack you, they get you to hack yourself.

The whole idea is to scare you into thinking there’s a problem and get you to click a link and go down some path that’s going to provide them something. It may be passwords to your account, or it may be credit card or banking information don’t fall for this. Apple will not provide an email such as this to tell you your account storage is full, if your account storage is full, you will see a pop-up message on your Apple device that when you click lead you to your iCloud information on the particular device. It doesn’t take you to a website. It doesn’t ask you directly for credit card information. It takes you to Apple’s on service on the device.

The best thing you could do is delete these type of emails. There’s really no way that reporting them helps and since they are also coming from different email addresses even if you block that address, you’re really not helping yourself.