Beware of dubious mailings from "icloud account services"

Just a warning regarding what clearly is a "phishing" campaign targeting iCloud users. I have received a series of emails, purporting to be “service announcements” from “Icloud (sic) Account Services”  regarding email verification of unused accounts. Here is the body of the email:
SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear Customer,
Due to congestion in all Icloud Mail user accounts, there shall be a removal exercise of all used and unused Icloud Accounts. Icloud Inc would be shutting down several accounts.
You will have to confirm your Icloud account. So you are required to logon to your Online Icloud Account with the provided link below.
ICLOUD.COM/EMAILVERIFICATION
NB: Failure to to update your Icloud account will result to a permanent closure.
Thank you for being a loyal Icloud Mail user.
Regards,
Icloud Account Services
Without clicking on any of the links but scrutinizing them closely, they link to various Yahoo and AOL pages, the same with the emails used to send them.
Users should practice extreme care not to reply to any such correspondents, as they are indeed meant to get access to their iCloud login details.

I had the same problem some clown never removed theirs before selling to me either and then she got all defensive when I said I need her password to get it off, restore it she said, got me mad as **** man all she to do was run factory reset before she sold it silly blonde **** but here's what to do:
Obviously you can't erase and restore because you can't turn find my iphone off but you need it in recovery mode to bypass all the previous passwords.
1. Turn the phone off
2. Get itunes up with the usb in your computer but the other end NOT connected to the phone.
3. Hold the home button, plug the usb into the phone whilst continuing to hold home. (Do not let go)
4. iTunes will display iphone in recovery mode it must be restored before it can be used.
5. iTunes will proceed to download the newest iphone software then run and sync.
= What you need.
P.S this will not work for stolen phones because the lord jesus will not allow it.
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