I've received about 10 calls in less than 2 days on my mom's home land line (cold call) with a creepy female computerized message saying my iCloud account has been breached & to press one for tech support or call 855-218-9579 for tech support. The original call comes from the number 209-207-5000 (Tracey or Stockton, CA). Either way goes to the same call center, "Premier Tech Support" you can hear a busy call center in the background and the same man with and Indian accent answers after a brief message that your call will be monitored for quality assurance. When I ask why I received a call regarding my Apple or iCloud he either hangs up right away or doesn't say anything and all you hear is a busy call center in the background.
I called Apple Support and while I was on the line with a legit support tech on my iPhone, I received yet another call on the land line and let him listen to the creepy recording. He as well as many other recent articles on similar scams suggest reporting it to the FBI.
One message on answering machine, then a live call which I answered. Announced the data breach and said to press 1, which I did. Same busy call center with a guy with an Indian accent asking me to sign onto my computer. The most curious thing he said was that he could only "fix" the problem if I was on my computer. Red flag went up. Hung up.
They have been calling me for the last 3 days. I finally answered today. They called on my home phone which is not tied to my icloud account in any way so I don't know how they got that. The caller ID is as follows: Apple Inc 408-960-0110. The robot voice tells you your icloud has been breached and to press 1 to speak with a rep or call a number that it gives out very quickly and only once. I pressed 1. The “rep” was a man with a heavy accent and very aggressive. I asked him my own verification questions. I asked him for the toll-free number so I could call back. He said it was the number I just called. OK, RIGGGHHHHT. So I told him no, you called me. He gave me the toll toll-freeer: 1800MYAPPLE (692-7753). But if you look up the caller ID number it comes up as an Apple location in San Jose CA. The 1-800-MYAPPLE is NOT an Apple phone number. I verified that on the Apple website. Total scam!!!
I got the same call 7-9 times with gaps of 30 minutes each. The number it came from was 212 209 3400 and they asked me to either all 8335254240 at apple or press 2 to connect to agent. I connected to agent and she asked me go online and do something and I asked her if it was phising and how could she prove it was apple and she said because we know your name (???) any way the 'name' they knew was not my name, but knowing my name doesnt proof anything. They could have picked it up from a phone book. Anyway, I did not go further with her but the rob call called back 6-7 tines and finally i blocked the call and changed my appleid.
Its a scam
My wife and I both just got the same type of call. Call from 800-361-2087. Now blocked. Reported them to FTC.GOV but don't expect much.
The number was 1-844-369-3796
I received a similar call. An Apple reply on another thread indicated it was a scam.
ditto for me....but the tel number that called me was 714-424-6331
Received similar electronic calls every hour up to ten so far on 9/2. Reported number to FTC
They called me too. It seemed official at first. It looks like they spoofed the Apple Valley Apple store- 619-682-3477.
They called me today 10 times I don’t know if it’s fake or not. I heard the voicemails and they say the same thing and I answered and they said press 1 to talk Apple Support for stuff.
Totally a scam. Block the number- they won’t stop calling. They are spoofing numbers from actual Apple stores so it can be confusing. Apple won’t call you but will email.
Hello, apple will never call you if its been hacked if you call they may call you back. They are scammers trying to take control of your device.
i just got a phone call saying the cloud has been breached. im asduming its a scam does anyone know anything about this?
