The scam starts with a text message claiming you have an unpaid toll fee. To avoid late fees and a report to the DMV, you’re instructed to pay within 12 hours. This message can be alarming, even ...

Disabled man has iPhone stolen in cruel Facebook scam - The 62-year-old’s trouble began when he decided to sell his old iPhone 12 Max on Facebook Marketplace to pay his bills ...

We have seen these kind of scams before, but this particularly case is on a ginormous industry-like scale. Five people have been charged on counts of fraud for their involvement in a fake iPhone ...

A similar scam happened in 2019 This isn’t the first time Apple has been scammed like this. A similar case happened in 2019 when three people were accused of returning 10,000 fake iPhones and ...

Cybercriminals have registered more than 10,000 domains to fuel these scams, which target iPhone and Android users with fraudulent text messages designed to steal personal and financial information.

Separately, a similar scam in southern California netted a criminal gang around $12 million worth of iPhones until they were arrested in May 2024. Follow AppleInsider on Google News William Gallagher ...

The latest so-called smishing scams—phishing attacks via SMS—have exploited more than 10,000 newly registered domains, using fake payment demands to steal personal and financial information.

If the user falls for this, the resulting legitimate-looking scam site generally requires the user to enter credit card or bank account information to "pay" a modest fee. But that's not what happens.

This might help to remind you to treat all incoming unexpected messages as potential scams, and to take time to ... iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR ...