Preventing security breaches through @mac.com email account
How to prevent my security being breached through my email account ending in @mac.com? Please advise.
Thank you
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Original Title: Email scam
How to prevent my security being breached through my email account ending in @mac.com? Please advise.
Thank you
[Re-Titled by Moderator]
Original Title: Email scam
miguel510 wrote:
How to prevent my security being breached through my email account ending in @mac.com? Please advise.
Thank you
Your Apple Account password is the target here, and your account security is what protects your mail account.
An email account itself is intended to be public knowledge, though most any email account will get targeted with spam. The email account itself is not a security risk.
Here is how to evaluate your Apple Account security: Better Securing Your Data, and Apple Acco… - Apple Community
Identifying phishing: Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
Here are the email domains used by Apple iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
You can add your own email aliases for an Apple iCloud email account such as mac.com, and can add email domains as well.
miguel510 wrote:
How to prevent my security being breached through my email account ending in @mac.com? Please advise.
Thank you
Your Apple Account password is the target here, and your account security is what protects your mail account.
An email account itself is intended to be public knowledge, though most any email account will get targeted with spam. The email account itself is not a security risk.
Here is how to evaluate your Apple Account security: Better Securing Your Data, and Apple Acco… - Apple Community
Identifying phishing: Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support
Here are the email domains used by Apple iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support
You can add your own email aliases for an Apple iCloud email account such as mac.com, and can add email domains as well.
Ways to keep your information safe on Mac
Don't open any email on iCloud or any other email that you don't know who the sender is.
You have a few email addresses with Apple, not just the one you used to set up your Apple ID with. You should log into your iCloud account and find them.
Thank you much for your support and will follow your advice; only that in this case it seemed very strange that the email came from my own @mac account.
This is why I reported it for discussion.
best regards
M
Preventing security breaches through @mac.com email account