Five days ago I received an email from an anonymous sender with the subject: Your Apple ID was just used to buy full album Elton John 312.99. Your receipt No. 37930343160405752. the content began: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 From (my email add

Five days ago I received an anonymous email with the subject:
Your Apple ID was just used to buy full album Elton John £12.99.Your receipt No.37930343160405752
The content started: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 From:(my email address) followed by a very,very,very long stream of gobbledygook. There is no record of it in my i-tunes purchases or my credit card statement but that might only be because I have not updated my credit card details. Should I be worried that my account has been compromised? Does anyone know how I can get through to the right section of Apple to deal with this - all the emails I get say no-reply so I don't have an email address to contact them on.
I would be most grateful if anyone could help me with this.
Thanks in advance
Walwal

It's a phishing attempt to try and get your account and payment details - forward it to Apple : [email protected] , and then delete it
Phishing emails : Identifying fraudulent "phishing" email - Apple Support
Genuine emails : Identifying legitimate emails from the iTunes Store - Apple Support

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