Cloud Storage Is Full Email Scam: What It Is and How to Protect Yourself

This article smells of AI.

i thought id throw this up as PSA.

my region is seeing a big uptick in this and similar phishes.

a lot of people are falling for it.

very authentic looking spoofed emails and notification spam spraying attack.

people who have no cloud usage at all, think they will lose every thing.

the illegal files; illegle usage; version is doing well here also.

https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2025/07/are-you-rea...

I forgot I enabled the cloud-to-butt plugin for Firefox.

My dad got one of these. I was able to quickly identify it was a scam because it went to an email provider he doesn't use for iCloud/Apple, and he has no other cloud storage. But troubleshooting stuff like this remotely is difficult because users will often misread words to match what they expect it to say. For example, my dad kept saying that the email was about his "iCloud storage" when in fact it just said "cloud storage". His mind filled in the blank to make it make sense.