Iphone stolen - link sent that open Find my Phone app

Hi there. My phone was stolen and find my phone enabled. Got a message from "Apple" with a link that open the Find my Phone app - and that's why I put my details on it: even if it was through a link it was on the App! When I did this, lost mode was disabled.


Thing is: even sharing my screen on the phone with Apple and in the two Genius Bar of the main Apple stores in London people just can confirm if the link is fake (must be, no other possibility), but they keep sending me to other attendants, etc. Some of them even told me this link really is from Apple (????)

Any of you have seen it before? https://FindMyiPhone-Apple.ID/h2


Just really worried with my personal data as apparently my Apple ID have been accessed.

Many thanks

iPhone 7

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 6:23 AM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2018 6:40 AM

Yes, the link is fake. There is no URL to go to any findmyiphone site. There are two ways, and only two ways, to track your device. One is via the find my iphone iOS app on another iOS device. The other is to sign in to your icloud account (https://www.icloud.com/) and track it from the app there. That’s it - those are the only two ways to track a device. Any other URL, link, note etc is a fake, plain and simple.


If you have two factor authentication enabled, you will need an authentication code to sign in to icloud in a web browser (at least for the first time login for any web browser).


Note too that the URL you post uses the .ID domain suffix, which indicates a country domain for Indonesia. Apple already owns its own company *.com domain(s), so why would they use Indonesia as a hosting domain for antyhing? Apple’s own country specific web pages always (ALWAYS) use the .apple.com/ URL domain extension, and then indicate the country code after the slash.


And Apple will never contact you about a lost or stolen device. They don’t track devices for anyone. They don’t have any way of even knowing if your device is lost or stolen.

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Dec 27, 2018 6:40 AM in response to PdtMt

Yes, the link is fake. There is no URL to go to any findmyiphone site. There are two ways, and only two ways, to track your device. One is via the find my iphone iOS app on another iOS device. The other is to sign in to your icloud account (https://www.icloud.com/) and track it from the app there. That’s it - those are the only two ways to track a device. Any other URL, link, note etc is a fake, plain and simple.


If you have two factor authentication enabled, you will need an authentication code to sign in to icloud in a web browser (at least for the first time login for any web browser).


Note too that the URL you post uses the .ID domain suffix, which indicates a country domain for Indonesia. Apple already owns its own company *.com domain(s), so why would they use Indonesia as a hosting domain for antyhing? Apple’s own country specific web pages always (ALWAYS) use the .apple.com/ URL domain extension, and then indicate the country code after the slash.


And Apple will never contact you about a lost or stolen device. They don’t track devices for anyone. They don’t have any way of even knowing if your device is lost or stolen.

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