Getting emails telling me I have 14 threats on my iPhone. Are these emails from Apple?

Crmh823 wrote:

I am getting emails telling me I have 14 threats on my phone. Is this email from you?

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Remote sites can’t scan your device. If they could, they’d skip the fake scan and just pillage everything directly.

Even installed apps can’t scan your iPhone storage or apps for malware, either.

Here? Wait for those phishing mail counts to reach sixty nine “threats”, or ~eight billion “threats” found (one for each person on the planet) or some other truly absurd count. Then laugh. Then go back to whatever else you were doing.

It’s a scam…

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

The “I’ve been using your camera and recording you“ and the “I have your old password” scams are all active still, too.

Then there are the scams telling you that your device’s memory is already 17% damaged, or some such. The scam messages go on to say that if you don’t take action in the next, say, 120 seconds, your device will become permanently damaged, and all of your information will fall into the hands of criminals. There may even be a ticking countdown clock.

Of course, it’s when you contact the “helpful” people (criminals) who sent the message that you get scammed.

It's not from anyone on these boards or Apple; the only ways someone will actually be able to tell you that you have malware are if you send it to them, or if you manually let them start a scanner.

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