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Q: Possible Iphone 7 Scam

I was surfing the internet when a pop up appeared and told me that I had been randomly selected to receive a iPhone 7 as part of a focus test.  The pop up forced me to click an OK button and then redirected me to a website iphone.com-rewards.xyz where it is asking me to fill out a survey. I haven't done this as I assume this is a scam.  I searched the Apple website looking for an appropriate place to inform/verify that this was indeed a scam.  Not having found a suitable place I choose to post this here.  Thanks for the help.

iPhone 6, iOS 8.4

Posted on Jul 29, 2015 6:27 PM

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  • by idickerson,

    idickerson idickerson Sep 5, 2015 11:25 AM in response to Hardtak
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    Sep 5, 2015 11:25 AM in response to Hardtak

    This scam just came up on the app "Map My Run"  How do I get rid of it?

  • by Johnathan Burger,

    Johnathan Burger Johnathan Burger Sep 5, 2015 12:33 PM in response to idickerson
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    Sep 5, 2015 12:33 PM in response to idickerson

    FFollow the same directions in thread.

    delete map my run to prevent them serving you phishing attempts.

  • by MaryAKe,

    MaryAKe MaryAKe Sep 9, 2015 3:35 PM in response to LeVeau
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    Sep 9, 2015 3:35 PM in response to LeVeau

    I Had a similar pop up for iPhone 6 reward for a test. Decided to check out first whether it was a scam as I tend to believe that if it is too good to be true it probably is. Glad I didn't get sucked in.

  • by ceciliafromsalt lake city,

    ceciliafromsalt lake city ceciliafromsalt lake city Sep 18, 2015 7:50 PM in response to Hardtak
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    Sep 18, 2015 7:50 PM in response to Hardtak

    TThank you thank you. This worked!!!

  • by jennam2007,

    jennam2007 jennam2007 Sep 26, 2015 7:51 PM in response to LeVeau
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    Sep 26, 2015 7:51 PM in response to LeVeau

    I received this today too! Almost signed up for it until my wife told me it was probably a scam because Apple gives nothing away for free, especially their new phones! Thank you everyone for taking the time to post about it.

  • by kemreb,

    kemreb kemreb Oct 5, 2015 10:22 PM in response to jennam2007
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    Oct 5, 2015 10:22 PM in response to jennam2007

    Received it this morning and klicked ok but then closed the tab immediately and provided no information. Yes, should have searched for information before that but couldn't get rid of the "click ok pop-up". Stupid, I know.

     

    Was any harm done? Someone in the thread already said that clicking "ok" is not harmful. Is that really true? As I said I closed the tab immediately after clicking "ok" and provided no information.

  • by originaldisa,

    originaldisa originaldisa Nov 9, 2015 2:41 AM in response to Jane0h
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    Nov 9, 2015 2:41 AM in response to Jane0h

    I had just downloaded a new health log app to my iPhone when I got the 'important message' screen. I thought it was part of setting up the new app, like a welcome message, but now I realize it was only a pop up advertisement in the app. So when I clicked on the ad, Safari opened with the 'tester of iPhone 7 message' which I've recently read about and recognize as phishing. So I did not want to click OK but my screen froze and my only option seemed to be to click OK. Took me a good while before I found out that I could quit Safari and press 'clear history' in the Control panel to finally get rid of the frozen screen. :/

     

    Needless to say I immediately deleted my new iPhone app. I do not wish to use any apps that allow that kind of fraudulent advertisements.

     

    But this seems to be the way these frauds do it, by ads in iPhone apps.

  • by KimAnnika,

    KimAnnika KimAnnika Nov 10, 2015 11:50 PM in response to ChrisJ4203
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    Nov 10, 2015 11:50 PM in response to ChrisJ4203

    It took me a little while to find this, but here is the address where you can report this behavior:

     

    reportphishing@apple.com

  • by Phil0124,

    Phil0124 Phil0124 Nov 11, 2015 7:43 AM in response to KimAnnika
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    Nov 11, 2015 7:43 AM in response to KimAnnika

    Really?  Cause that email address is in the link I provided in the first page of this thread.

     

    This one:

    http://www.apple.com/legal/more-resources/phishing/

     

    It also has a bunch of other useful information to spot scams.

  • by KimAnnika,

    KimAnnika KimAnnika Nov 11, 2015 11:39 PM in response to Phil0124
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    Nov 11, 2015 11:39 PM in response to Phil0124

    You're absolutely right about that, sorry about the mistake, I clicked this link: http://www.apple.com/feedback/ instead and couldn't get to where your link pointed out. The one you provided is very useful!

  • by HQJaTu,

    HQJaTu HQJaTu Nov 18, 2015 11:30 PM in response to Hardtak
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    Nov 18, 2015 11:30 PM in response to Hardtak

    This scam is still going strong. I had an encounter with it yesterday. All the details are in my blog post.

     

    Regards,

    Jari Turkia

  • by crocketdavy,

    crocketdavy crocketdavy Dec 11, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Hardtak
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    Dec 11, 2015 7:12 AM in response to Hardtak

    I received this as well yesterday. Everything seems ok with my Mac and I Phone after deleting. They wanted £1.45 to cover shipping costs of a news I phone 6s as a thank you for the survey. So I would not fill in my card details. The Pop Up on the Mac wanted £40 a month subscription to join a group to test I phone7.

  • by BeginnerMind,

    BeginnerMind BeginnerMind Dec 21, 2015 9:15 PM in response to stedman1
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    Dec 21, 2015 9:15 PM in response to stedman1

    Awesome, stedman1. Simple solution and it worked great. Many thanks!

  • by nalaselig,

    nalaselig nalaselig Dec 30, 2015 2:07 PM in response to Hardtak
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    Dec 30, 2015 2:07 PM in response to Hardtak

    Hi,

    We got this message on our iPad with a similar offer and identical link although this referred to Google being the 'sponsor'. It wasn't clear to me whether or how I could follow the advice to tap the home button twice and then swipe so I went straight to Settings > Safari and cleared history etc. and this seemed to solve the problem. Hpe this helps other iPad users

    Alan

  • by Lolaney,

    Lolaney Lolaney Jan 7, 2016 11:56 AM in response to Hardtak
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    Jan 7, 2016 11:56 AM in response to Hardtak

    I Just had this pop up on my iPhone 5S in Safari while looking at a veterinarian website. How does this even happen? I knew better than to click "OK". I immediately closed Safari, went to my Settings & erased all history & cookies. But my question is how did this scammers even get access to my iPhone? It completely took over & wouldn't let me push the back button or close it out in the normal fashion when you're finished with a web page.    Frustrating! image.png

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