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<div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Adam B. is most likely correct. I would do as he suggests, then do as Steve I. suggests, to make sure everything is OK in your actual Apple accounts.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">As Adam notes, there are a lot of email scams going around surrounding iCloud storage. I get them in Yahoo email, even though I have never had an account with Apple (though some enterprising souls did a long time ago open accounts using my info.).</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Do we need a Potpourri item or a brief announcement to our user group about this issue? (I'd like to let Apple users present this.) </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>
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On Wednesday, October 25, 2023 at 02:03:44 AM EDT, Michael Alexander via LCTG <lctg@lists.toku.us> wrote:
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<div>Fellow members,</div><div><br><span style="">Until sometime</span><span style=""> this evening, I had 50 GB of iCloud </span><span style="">storage for my iPhone, for which Apple extracted $0.99 per month from my credit card. Then, without warning, Apple told me I had used up all of <i>5 GB of my 5 GB allotment</i> (those are not typos! See screen shot, below.)</span><br style="">
</div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">I recall having used ~13-14 GB of the 50 GB allotment.</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div><span style="">When I go to Settings/iCloud, the storage info is more or less consistent with these new claims.</span></div><div><span style=""><br></span></div><div>What’s going on? What is the “+” appended to iCloud? How can this be rectified? Has my phone been hacked?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, in advance, for insights.</div><div><br></div><div> Mike Alexander</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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