Fake Find my iPhone site

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Fake Find my iPhone site

Hello,

I was robbed a couple weeks ago and I keep receiving a text message from different numbers with this text:

"Your iPhone 5S is powered on right now, to see its location please go to http://itracking.me/apple"

If you enter this site, it's pretty similar to iCloud's, but I'm not stupid, I know this is a way how these thiefers can access to your iCloud account and remove my iPhone from the system so they can sell it.

Do you guys think that they can unlock my iPhone? I hope they don't. My iPhone was locked with 4-digit password, fingerprint and "Find my iPhone" function was active. So far, my iPhone has not been connected to the internet.

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.0.4

Posted on Jul 29, 2014 2:00 PM

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KiltedTim

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Jul 29, 2014 2:04 PM in response to wrop9

Why don't you just initiate a wipe from the REAL Find my iPhone? Or see if you can locate it and contact the police?

Activation lock will prevent them from being able to activate it if they've managed to wipe it, but they managed to get your email somehow... A 4 digit passcode is not impossible to crack.

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Answer 2

Jul 29, 2014 2:04 PM in response to wrop9

Your phone cannot be unlocked unless you remove it from your Apple ID.

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Answer 3

Jul 29, 2014 4:39 PM in response to wrop9

You can do the world a favor by forwarding one of those text messages to reportphishing@apple.com

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Answer 4

Jul 29, 2014 4:41 PM in response to wrop9

If the texts you receive are iMessages, forward them to imessage.spam@icloud.com.

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wrop9 Author

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Jul 30, 2014 12:08 PM in response to KiltedTim

Of course, what I first did was login using the Find my iPhone app on my iPad. The result is that my phone is still "offline"

I already call the police but I live in Colombia so it's pretty much worthless.

So far, they have my phone number (I don't know how... maybe if they managed to unlock the 4-digit password) and my email I believe it's because once I received a call from a guy who was (he told me) from the police and he told me that my iPhone was found. Then he asked for my icloud email and password. I gave the email but not the password. He told me that it was the only way for him to know that my iPhone was actually mine.

But i'm not stupid... he just wanted my password to login and delete my phone from the account.

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wrop9 Author

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Jul 30, 2014 12:15 PM in response to Lawrence Finch

I already sent this issue to reportphishing@apple.com, imessage.spam@icloud.com and abuse@apple.com.

I really hope this works somehow... maybe I won't recover my phone but I'll feel better if Apple or we as users are aware of that. I hate thieves!!!!

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