I received this message on my mobile phone ( Your mobile number has won 850,000 Pounds Sterling from the ongoing APPLE iPRIZE5. claim with your lucky AppleKey: 91058 ) What to do with it ?

How it happened? Nothing magical there, as there are thousands of people everyday that receive such bogus, nonsensical emails. Unfortunately there are still some people that fall for them by replying with all of their personal and financial information. The scammer is happy, the email recipient has now compromised his/her credit card.

can anyone share your experience ?

It's a really bad idea to post your email address and phone number - it's an invitation to spam and a serious security risk - and I've asked the Hosts to remove them. No-one is going to email or phone you.

And no-one is going to give you a large prize just because you have an Apple phone. What they are trying to do is to get you to tell them your bank details so they can steal money from you.

If you have told them your credit card or bank details you must contact your card issued and bank at once and tell them. You should get a new credit card issued and the old one stopped, and the bank need to take measures to prevent unauthorised access.

Quindio wrote:

Do I need to Fear a Virus or Malware on Apple products ( IPad )?

Quindio

Unless your iOS device is jailbroken, then no. There have been exactly zero confirmed reports of any malware on a non-jailbroken iOS device.

Quindio wrote:

Hallo Roger , thanks for your answer , I did not give Bank details , but phone number and email, birth date and residence information

They can do any harm with this ?

Bregards Quindio

The danger with this is that they may use this information to pretend to be you in order, for example, to get a loan.

If you are in the UK you could go to http://www.cifas.org.uk/pr and register. The object of this is that if anyone attempts to get a loan or similar, extra security investigations will kick in to make sure it's not fraudlent. The cost of signup is minimal; it will involve you in more hassle if you want to get a loan but it's better than being a victim of identity fraud.

I don't know whether the USA or other countries have anything similar but it would be worth investigating.

Roger Wilmut1 wrote:

The danger with this is that they may use this information to pretend to be you in order, for example, to get a loan.

If you are in the UK you could go to http://www.cifas.org.uk/pr and register. The object of this is that if anyone attempts to get a loan or similar, extra security investigations will kick in to make sure it's not fraudlent. The cost of signup is minimal; it will involve you in more hassle if you want to get a loan but it's better than being a victim of identity fraud.

I don't know whether the USA or other countries have anything similar but it would be worth investigating.

In the U.S., you can get alerts put on your credit history requiring similar additional verification. However, I believe it has to be done through each credit reporting agency.

It's a scam. Ignore it.

I Was stupid enough to fill out the form.

What harm they can do with this information ?

Best regards

Ají dio

How did this get on the front page?

I believe there was a subsequent "Me too" post yesterday that the hosts have now nuked. This would bring it to the front page again.

Ah, my bad. I thought it might have been another 'invisible post', but it's odd that the system doesn't reorganize the display order back properly. Ah, well.

TJBUSMC1973 wrote:

but it's odd that the system doesn't reorganize the display order back properly. Ah, well.

This surprises you? 😉

I expect better from Apple! Where do I go to complain!! LOL

It's probably for the best I don't have a feedback link for Jive. I don't think they really want to hear from me.