{"id":22657,"date":"2026-04-12T06:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/your-photos-will-be-deleted-apple-users-warned-over-nasty-icloud-storage-scam\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T06:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T04:37:23","slug":"your-photos-will-be-deleted-apple-users-warned-over-nasty-icloud-storage-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/your-photos-will-be-deleted-apple-users-warned-over-nasty-icloud-storage-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Your photos will be deleted\u2019: Apple users warned over \u2018nasty\u2019 iCloud storage scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters send emails claiming storage is full or nearly full, then trick people into clicking on links that can expose bank and personal details<\/p>\n<p>For a while you\u2019ve been getting messages from Apple saying \u201cyour iCloud storage is full\u201d. They say you have exceeded your storage plan, so documents are no longer being backed up, and photos you take aren\u2019t being uploaded.<\/p>\n<p>You have been resisting Apple\u2019s efforts to get you to pay a minimum of 99p a month for more storage. But it seems that you can\u2019t keep putting off the inevitable: you have received an email which says your iCloud account has been blockedand your photos and videos will be deleted very soon. To keep them you need to upgrade immediately, it says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2026\/apr\/12\/apple-icloud-storage-scam-emails\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0c62485170b2e91d94844b30c925959fb7460071\/840_0_4320_3456\/master\/4320.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4030188c2c221463151588ccd9c12409\" title=\"\u2018Your photos will be deleted\u2019: Apple users warned over \u2018nasty\u2019 iCloud storage scam\" \/>Fraudsters send emails claiming storage is full or nearly full, then trick people into clicking on links that can expose bank and personal details<br \/>\nFor a while you\u2019ve been getting messages from Apple saying \u201cyour iCloud storage is full\u201d. They say you have exceeded your storage plan, so documents are no longer being backed up, and photos you take aren\u2019t being uploaded.<br \/>\nYou have been resisting Apple\u2019s efforts to get you to pay a minimum of 99p a month for more storage. But it seems that you can\u2019t keep putting off the inevitable: you have received an email which says your iCloud account has been blockedand your photos and videos will be deleted very soon. To keep them you need to upgrade immediately, it says. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudsters send emails claiming storage is full or nearly full, then trick people into clicking on links that can expose bank and personal details For a while you\u2019ve been getting messages from Apple saying \u201cyour iCloud storage is full\u201d. They say you have exceeded your storage plan, so documents are no longer being backed up, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/your-photos-will-be-deleted-apple-users-warned-over-nasty-icloud-storage-scam\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Your photos will be deleted\u2019: Apple users warned over \u2018nasty\u2019 iCloud storage scam<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22657"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}