Can an iphone be cloned by answering an unknown phone call?
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No. For all practical purposes iPhones cannot be hacked unless they are in the physical possession of someone who knows how to hack it.
Your identity was compromised, but it had nothing to do with the phone. The call your wife got was a symptom, not the cause.
You need to lock down your credit files. NOW!
The call was from a scammer, to steal your wife’s phone number so it could be used to confirm a purchase. So now it’s likely your identity has been stolen. Contact the Fraud department of your bank and your card issuers, cancel all of your credit and debit cards immediately and get them reissued.
Thank you for your reply. My wife received a call from "unknown caller" that she answered. The caller said that "His name was Jake from ATT Fraud and that they had detected possible fraud on her account and if she would give them the six digit number that they would send her, they could figure it out. She returned the six digit code and her phone stopped working. She could not call or receive either text or calls. After trouble-shooting with ATT, it was determined that she needed to get a new sim card. I took the phone to an ATT store and got a new sim card and her phone now works as it should. The strange things is that after her problem, I received a call asking if I had made a $500 purchase in Miami, FL. Then I was asked if I new a H. Rodriguez. NO! Then I started getting text messages from "Affirm" saying that my application for a $5000 loan had been approved. My credit file is always "Locked", so I new that something was fishy. I never "clicked" on any of the links that were included in the messages purporting to be from Target and Nordstroms and the text messages stopped coming. My phone # is close to my wife's and I thing that an auto-dialer was used to make contact with me and I failed to respond to their phishing attempts.
Can an iPhone be cloned by answering an unknown phone call?
