Scammers often try to trick you into sharing personal or financial information by sending you messages or links to websites that might look like they’re from Apple, but their actual purpose is to steal your account information. Some phishing emails will ask you to click on a link to update your account information. Others might look like a receipt for a purchase in the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store or for Apple Music, that you’re certain you didn’t make.

Never enter your account information on websites linked from these messages, and never download or open attachments included within them.

Apple allows online gambling applications in a few forms (and not just in places where it is explicitly permitted). They do not allow any payments through the applications - those have to be done on the websites A few examples: Pokerstars is avai. The Apple App Store covers a market of 175 countries to which various computer applications are sold. With more than a million titles ranging from music, art, payment and billing solutions, advertising to dozens of entertainment applications of all kinds, this tool is used to download hundreds of millions of apps.

Is this email legitimate?

• Apple has a history of being anti-gambling. It has frequently pulled apps in countries where gambling is banned or heavily restricted. Last summer, the tech giant pulled an estimated 25,000 gambling apps from its App Store in China. Gambling is illegal in China, except in Macau where there are licensed casinos.
• Apple is facing a proposed class action lawsuit for allegedly allowing gambling through loot boxes in App Store titles.

Genuine purchase receipts—from purchases in the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music—include your current billing address, which scammers are unlikely to have. You can also review your App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music purchase history.

If you receive an email about an App Store or iTunes Store purchase, and you’re not sure whether it is real, you can look for a couple of things that can help confirm that the message is from Apple.

Genuine purchase receipts—from purchases in the App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music—include your current billing address, which scammers are unlikely to have. You can also review your App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music purchase history.

Emails about your App Store, iTunes Store, iBooks Store, or Apple Music purchases will never ask you to provide this information over email:

• Social Security Number
• Mother's maiden name
• Full credit card number
• Credit card CCV code

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Update your account info safely

Apple App Store Gambling Policy Online

Apple App Store Gambling Policy Template

If you receive an email asking you to update your account or payment information, only do so in Settings directly on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch; in iTunes or the App Store on your Mac; or in iTunes on a PC.

To update your password for the Apple ID that you use for purchases, do so only in Settings on your device or at appleid.apple.com.

Apple App Store Gambling Policy 2019

Learn more about security and your Apple ID.

If you received or acted on a likely phishing message:

If you received a suspicious email, please forward it to reportphishing@apple.com. If you're on a Mac, select the email and choose Forward As Attachment from the Message menu.

If you think you might have entered personal information like a password or credit card info on a scam website, immediately change your Apple ID password.