Email spam that truely made me laugh!

We all get them, some more than others, and mostly we just delete them without reading.  Well, this Phishing email supposedly from Halifax got through the filter and made it to my phone, so I opened it and had a read... now I now that they're not known for the wonderful grammar, but this one stopped me dead in my tracks on the first line... How I laughed!
"Dear  Valued Customer,
It's our pleasure to compromise our customers. At Halifax Bank Account,
we are introducing a new security server protocol which will protect your
Halifax account from ongoing phishing and theft."
Yep... read that first line again...
Cheers
Alun
"Can a leopard change it's shorts?" - T Prattchet

Your purchases are permanently tied to the Apple ID (account) used to purchase them.  They can't be moved to another account and you can merge accounts.  You can start making new purchases with your iCloud ID if you want, but you will end up with two sets of purchases under two different IDs, adding further complication to your life.
Also, your @icloud email address is an alias of your existing @me address; emails sent to either address will be routed to the same inbox.  You can decide which one you want to use as your default (as discussed here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5441) but you can't separate them.

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