David Hanak Scammers who try to get money from people or their personal information are many and use countless different methods. Now comes a warning from Asia about a new scam targeting iPhone and iPad owners. In extreme cases, users can lose both their most sensitive data and money.
Singapore police issued a warning this week about a new fraud scheme spreading across Asia targeting iPhone and iPad owners. Fraudsters select selected users from various social networks and then offer them the possibility of relatively easy earnings through "game testing". Potentially compromised users should be paid to play games and find bugs. At first glance, this is a fairly standard procedure that many development companies resort to. However, this has a major catch.
If the user is interested in this service, the fraudsters will send them a special Apple ID login, which they must log in to on their device. Once this happens, the fraudsters remotely lock the affected device through the Lost iPhone/iPad function and demand money from the victims. If they don't get the money, users will lose all their data on the device and the device itself, as it is now locked to someone else's iCloud account.
The Singapore Police has issued a warning to people to be careful about logging into their device with an unknown iCloud account, to avoid sending their money or giving out personal information to anyone in case of a hack. Users with compromised iPhones and iPads should contact Apple support, which is already aware of the scam. It can be expected that it is only a matter of a few days before a similar system arrives here. So watch out for him. Never sign in to your iOS device with someone else's Apple ID.
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Petr Škuta Source: CNA
