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Monday, March 06, 2023

Scam Alert

 As the Gorse Fox drove back from football, yesterday, he received a text message, ostensibly for "Pay". In a worrying alert, it said: "Apple pay was suspended on your device, to continue using please re-activate by visiting: xxxxx".

Now, the Gorse Fox uses Apple PAy extensively, so the initial thought was "What is going on?" His first actual reaction, however, was to go and have a shower - he was, after all, on his way back from football! Once presentable, he fired up Google and searched for the text from the message. Sure enough, there have been plenty of incidents of a scam based on this, or very similar, wording. His conclusion is that it is an attempted scam or phishing attack, No action is needed,

(He will, however, take actual plastic credit cards with him next time he shops, just in case).

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