Sketchy iPhone pop-up while browsing with phone number

I was browser and then I got one of those your iPhone is hacked with a number. I tried to clear my tabs on my phone and accidentally tapped the number. I hang up and blocked the number.


My questions is, is my phone hacked and infected with malware and will people get, who have me in their contacts get sketchy text messages with malware. I am just wondering because well, this is the first time it is happened to me and in the past when I got these I did not click on the phone number.


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Posted on Sep 3, 2023 9:43 AM

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Sep 3, 2023 9:53 AM in response to bdub8102

The worst that can happen, now that they know your phone number, is they will likely try to call you back - incessantly. If not them, other scammers they sell the number to.


There was no need to delete the DuckDuckGo browser. There's nothing that can happen to you through that. Well, not unless you choose to download some unknown junk, like calendar spam.

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