Apple’s MobileMe plays into hands of spammers: How Apple inadvertently made it easy for spammers to get to you and your contacts…
John Leyden writes in the Register:
Apple has inadvertently made it easy for spammers to create a database of MobileMe email addresses. The issue points to a future of more junk mail for Mac heads. They are already being targetted by MobileMe phishing scams — a little over a week after the emergence of a phishing scam targeting MobileMe users.
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Tech Crunch says:
Creating email spam lists is a multi-billion dollar business. Most webmail providers long ago closed a number of the more obvious methods spammers used to put together their lists in an automated way.
Apple, however, has created a dead simple way for spammers to easily spider their idisk property to retrieve the entire MobileMe user name list. And each of those usernames can be converted to an email address by adding @me.com or @mac.com to the end of it.
Phishing for MobileMe users
August 13 story: Apple faithful snared in phishing scam targeting Mac.com users snared in a phishing scam that coincided with the glitches in the roll-out Apple’s MobileMe service.
