I received a scam message when using Facebook on my iPhone

On facebook looking at a home for sale and a pop up showed up

from pr*******.com saying

im guessing this is a scam can u please verify?

thanks



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iPhone 11, iOS 18

Posted on Dec 5, 2024 5:52 AM

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Posted on Dec 5, 2024 5:56 AM

Absolutely a scam. Apple would never send a message like this. You can see the message is from priyv......


Close and ignore the pop up.

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Dec 5, 2024 6:31 AM in response to 8754kind

Absolutely a scam.


The timers in some of these scam messages are meant to frighten the recipient into acting without thinking, but are amusing in a way. If someone really was out to destroy your phone's hardware (as other scam messages say), or to divulge personal information just to mess up your life, why wouldn't they do that IMMEDIATELY, instead of giving the victim time to avoid the problem?


And how would the "helpful" people who sent you the "warning" (actually, the CRIMINALS who sent you the SCAM) know about the problem in time to tell you of it, let alone give you a countdown timer that was exact to the second?

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