I am getting phone calls to talk to an Apple support advisor re: an iCloud breach. Is this a scam?
iPhone 5s, iOS 8.0.2
I just received two phone calls 1 hour apart from this same number telling me my iCloud has been breached and not to use any apple devices. I Stayed on the line, with the impression that it may be a scam, but wanted to hear what they had to say. Some foreigner man answered and asked if I had an apple product? Well duh!!! That's why u guys called me. Then asked me if I had a laptop or desktop computer to which I replied yes, and he asked me to type in the search bar www.appleassist.me I didn't know who these peeps were and didn't want to give them access to my computer so I just hung up on them. I'm glad I did! The number they called from was ******** so I called it back and theirs an automated message stating the obvious, that this is a scam!!! Don't fall for it peeps!
[Edited by Host]For future reference, any such phone call, email, letter, popup message, smoke signal or any other method of communication will be a scam.
Not by a SCAM phone call - read the article posted in this thread for more information
and yes scammers continue - do not send money to your grandchild to get out of jail in a foreign country, give information to get your money out of Nigeria or call back the IRS because they leave a message about their final call - Scammers are scammers and they will continue as long a people fall for them - do not be one of the suckers
LN
I started getting these this week. Robo calls from a few different numbers; I actually talked to a tech and I could here his kids and wife yelling in the general area of him, his Pakistani accent was so thick, I could barely understand what he was trying to tell me to do. I hung up within seconds of starting the phone call.
The numbers were:
********
The first two I let go to voicemail and they both asked me to call back to ******
The third one I actually answered and it gave me prompts to talk to a tech now or something else (don't remember what it was now).
********
Definitely a scam
They are still coming in. I have received about 15 calls in the last two days. Idiots!
It's a new year and the scam continues. If there were a breach, how would one know?
Is iCloud breach phone call a scam?
