Please help! Clicked on a link in pishing email

[Sami13496]

Hi all! I got email about “How was your recent Apple service experience?” and sender is AppleSupport@insideapple.apple.com. I didn’t request any service so I clicked one of the links in the email “I did not have my product serviced recently”. Just when I clicked I realised this was probably a phishing email. So I clicked on that link but I did not answer the survey that opened. Should I be worried? Can something happen just by clicking on a link (meaning some webpage loaded)?

 

[Sami13496]

Additional info: I do not have credit card info saved in my Safari AutoFill list.

 

[Apple_Robert]

The email address appears to be correct. If you want to be sure, you can check the email header.

 

[ifxf]

Stop worrying, if you didn’t provide any cc or passwords on the link you will be fine.

 

[russell_314]

Hi all! I got email about “How was your recent Apple service experience?” and sender is AppleSupport@insideapple.apple.com. I didn’t request any service so I clicked one of the links in the email “I did not have my product serviced recently”. Just when I clicked I realised this was probably a phishing email. So I clicked on that link but I did not answer the survey that opened. Should I be worried? Can something happen just by clicking on a link (meaning some webpage loaded)?

You’re probably fine. The only downside of clicking the link is now they likely know that email is active and someone clicked the link. This might give them reason to target you again, but it seems like you learned not to do that.

Never click links in emails unless you specifically know you requested that email. If it’s a silly survey, then sure fill it out but if you click a link and it asks you to login or fill out private information, just close it. Phishing emails depend on you giving them information, not them hacking it from your computer. If there’s a spot for your username and password and you type it in, then you gave that to them. If there’s a spot for a credit card and you put in your credit card number, then you gave it to them. They didn’t have to take it.

Even if the email says it comes from Apple, that doesn’t mean anything. Just like with caller ID on your phone they can spoof that.


If you’re worried, delete your browsing cash and cookies but I don’t even think that is necessary.

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Yep if you didn't sign in or provide any personal info... simply clicking the link is highly unlikely to cause any problems at all, unless you're a specific target of a highly sophisticated and expensive attack. And if you are such a target - Lockdown Mode will help.