I received an email in French saying something about my iTunes account. Is this a known scam?

I don't know if I should mark it spam. I can't find where to just check in with the Apple folks about these sort of things.

What does the email say - if you don't speack French then there are sites such as http://translate.google.com and http://www.bing.com/translator which you could copy the text into and get a rought translation of it.
If the email is something along the lines of 'your account has been suspended, click here to verify it' then it is a phishing attempt - you could forward it to Apple (we are fellow users on here) : [email protected]
If it says something else ?

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