Apple Account Hacked?

[Jennykenny]

Have just had an email from Apple to say that they suspect that an order for $11 for a screensaver has not been ordered by me and that I need to cancel it and change my password, (I haven't ordered this).
The email from Apple looks completely genuine but I am paranoid that IT is false and that my using their link to change my password I am being conned.
Thoughts please.

[pixie374]

Don't use their link. Check your account as you usually would and may be change the password anyway.

[fiction-factory]

Does email from Apple mention your exact name (not just your email address)? If you log on to your Apple account (not via the link) is there a message. Just log on to Apple properly and change your password as a precaution. Delete the email

[aelmpvw]

not necessarily the same but i'm always getting emails saying my Apple account has been compromised and i haven't got an Apple account!

[Sycamore3House]

It is a scam. Change your Apple ID password and ignore this email.

[VHG]

NEVER click on the links in an email like this.

It will almost certainly take you to a "fake" web site make to look like the real Apple web site.

If you then logon to that fake web site the criminals will steal your userid and password.

Go into the GENUINE Apple web site and change your password.

Note that criminals send out thousands of emails like this hoping to catch people out. Many people who get it wont even have an Apple account.

If you DO have an Apple account then just go into your PROPER Apple account and change your password.

[Jennykenny]

Thank you all. It was more or less what I thought but good to have it confirmed.