Latest Scam To Get Your Apple Id.

You should've just simply gone to icloud.com logged in and looked it up, then send the location to the police and period.

This is a user to user forum, so if you wish to let Apple know about the scam, this is the portal to contact them

http://www.apple.com/legal/contact/

Boonaboon wrote:

Hi,

Just for sharing. Recently i've lost my ipad mini 2 wifi only(with passcode on, ios 8.2). I gone through many website try to find a way to track or recover but there's no solution except changing my apple id password for security reason. But 2 days ago someone send me a sms to my phone (since i use find my iphone apps and report as lost phone with my handphone number hope that someone will contact me). that person just mention they bought an stolen ipad from somehwere and ask me as if i were owner. Of course i replied yes and told them i would pay some money for them if they return the ipad to me. But there's no reply. The next day i got a sms stated that : LOST IPAD LOCATION HAS BEEN FOUND, PLEASE SIGN IN AND VERIFY YOU APPLE ID ON HTTP://verify.appleidlocation.com APPLE SUPPORT.

SInce i'm curious and hope can track my ipad, i log on to the web which looks exactly like apple website but its fake( its really hard to tell its fake). The page ask you to log in with your apple id and password. After key in everything they will lead you to the original apple website(even you key in whatever invalid email and password). After found out that something was wrong and i try to track the ipad using the find my iphone apps and its gone.

Rule #1

NEVER follow a link in an email or SMS message.

You should have gone directly to icloud.com and signed in to check the location of your iPad. This is a social engineering attack that works successfully as planned. Here's the domain information:

http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=AppleIdLocation.com

Looks like the domain was created on April 9, 2015

By the way, if you use the same username/password on other websites, change those passwords as soon as you can before the bad guys take over your other accounts.

Well, you're not the only one, this just happened to me after my iPhone 6 was stolen. I was using my ipad and iMessage, no warning popped up on safari on the ipad, but when I went to the computer it did. They should really update the ipad safari.

Yes, FYI happened to me too last month when my iPhone 6+ was stolen out of my purse in a crowd in a foreign country. I immediately knew it had happened and killed the phone using my laptop and Apple's website. But about a week later I got an "official" looking text on my new phone from Apple telling me it was found and to click the link and sign into iTunes. I immediately knew it was a scam because a) I had already killed the phone and b) there was a misspelling - they write "copyright 2015 Apples" so I had to laugh a little. I ignored it and a few days later got another text from a different U.S. phone number but this time making it seem like it came from AT&T - I'm guessing they knew my phone number and provider from the SIM card they removed. I ignored again. Well now it's been almost a month, and they actually CALLED me yesterday from a Chicago number. I don't answer unknown numbers, but they called me 17 times, including one at 2:30am, which really irritated me. Finally when they called back today, I answered it just to see who was harassing me, and they said (with an accent from the country where it was stolen) that they had recovered my iPhone 6 and would be mailing it back to me, but first they would need me to give them my Apple ID and password, so they could put it into the system. I got irritated and told him to "just mail it back to me since YOU are the one who stole it" - he paused and hung up. But I just couldn't believe they had the nerve to CALL me. I'm SO pleased Apple has created the kill switch in their phones, as it makes me an even more loyal customer.

Why don't you change your phone number? That may not be the end of your unsolicited calls. Just like junk email, once it is in the hands of criminals, you will continue to receive those unwanted calls for as long as you use the number.

Thanks for the suggestion, and while you're not necessarily (but hopefully 🙂) wrong, it's my long-standing work number, so I can't change it. Hopefully now that they know I know they stole it, perhaps it scared them away. They hung up pretty abruptly, so I think they got the hint, we'll see how it goes - I hope I don't have to change a phone number I've had for almost 20 years because of this <sigh>.

Hope I'm wrong too. I wish you nothing but the best outcome.