MobileMe Users Phished

According to Computer World, a recent phishing scam targeted Apple Inc.?s .Mac and MobileMe online service users. Hundreds of people fell for the scam, handing over their credit card and other personal information.

The phishing scam took advantage of the recent migration Apple conducted for subscribers of its older .Mac online service to MobileMe, the successor that launched just over a month ago. The scammers sent an email asking people to enter their credit card and other confidential information to migrate to the new MobileMe service.

The MobileMe scam wasn?t the first time that phishers have used the Apple brand to trick consumers. In May, criminals hit iTunes users with sophisticated identity theft attacks, again claiming that credit card problems required them to re-enter information to update their accounts.