Apple guru support phishing scam?

just got an email from Apple Guru Support saying my icloud account had been suspended and I needed to enter my username and password on a link... is this a scam?

This scam seems to be active in Australia. It is hard to decipher if the email is bonafide. The link to personal details is alarming.
Herewith part of the email - (I googled "KYC" = "Know your Customer" Wikipedia about fraud - Joke!).
Read in the excerpt paragraph, the grammar is incorrectly written: "reviewed" incorrect tense. This is is threatening and malicious email.
This is the last email to notify you as of 28 - March - 2015 that you have failed to reviewed your Apple Profile details. Under "KYC" regulation Apple is required by law to perform a validation of your Apple ID, failure review your profile will result in deletion of your iCloud within the next two working business days.
In over twenty years I have never been emailed for my ID AND bank details by Apple.
The other concern is that in an alternate email account, a message is to protect myself with a subscription to 'Mylife' - this is a threat.
I will be verifying all this with a phone call to Apple support. Several times 'MyLIfe.com' is offering preventative Internet ID security, to further scare me into paying for a non-existent service. Watch out - the fraudsters are getting very tricky.

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