Simplifi triggers email from Apple? "You requested your purchase details" (through American Express)

khad

It's a legitimate email from Apple.

Are other Simplifi users seeing this?

Is this related to a change Simplifi made in the way it pulls in American Express data?

I just got off the phone with American Express, and they confirmed everything is fine with my American Express account (as expected). This appears to be an automated email that is sent from Apple when an App Store purchase receipt link in transaction data is followed.

Try it yourself:

1. Sign in to your American Express account.
2. Find a transaction from: APPLE.COM/BILL INTERNET CHARGE CA
3. Click Show Digital Receipt.

My guess is that something Simplifi is doing – a somewhat recent change, say, in the past week or month? – is following those links and triggering the email from Apple because I didn't even know about Show Digital Receipt on the American Express website until I talked to someone in their Account Protection department about this whole thing. So I know it wasn't because I clicked one of the links myself.

I saw some discussion in a Reddit thread about this that mentioned Quicken Simplifi, and it would make a LOT of sense if that's what is triggering this because people are not doing it themselves and still getting these emails.

SRC54

I've never gotten this kind of email from any app I've bought through the Apple Store. So this is new. I renew my iCloud and Apple Music every month and didn't get it. I just get within a day or two the receipt. Mind you it is bought with funds I have in the Apple Account.

Now I have only paid annually through Quicken.com, so maybe since you signed up monthly through Apple, and then Quicken renews it automatically for you. But I thought Apple was the one that renewed it. Very interesting.

I somehow doubt this is something Quicken is doing on its own. Hope others can add insight.