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Apple Store in Southern California Warning Customers About Fraudulent Phone Calls
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The only "security hole" is the victim him/herself.
They send out spam to millions of addresses/phone numbers. The people who don't have Apple accounts ignore the messages as spam. The people who have Apple accounts think, "Maybe this is true, I should check this out." It's human nature. By responding at all, you provide useful information. And the more info they can tease out of you, the more convincing the next scam attempt can be.
They do the same thing "legitimate" advertisers do - they build and refine databases with information about a particular phone number or address. The more info they collect, the more valuable the lists become, both for their own scam attempts and by selling the info to other scammers.
I got a call from that store! They are sending me a free t-shirt, and all I had to do was tell them my social security number.
Which carrier? The target's carrier isn't seeing 100 calls per minute from one number? And does the sender, who is an overseas computer using VoIP, even need a carrier?
The way this is handled, generally, in IP networking, is, you know what IP addresses (or subnets) are assigned to a location, serviced by a specific hardware connection/wire, and you only allow packets with known valid source addresses in from that connection/wire, and if you get packets in on that wire that don't have an expected source address, you block the packets (rather than transferring them on through upstream), and you log the bad address (so if you get a ton of them from a specific connection, you know to go "have a talk" with them). Doing this at the point where traffic comes into your network from customer equipment eliminates so many types of problems on the network (yours and those upstream of you).
I'd love to see something similar done with caller ID - rather than carriers allowing calls that come into their system from their customers to have whatever caller ID the customer feels like attaching, only allow caller ID numbers that match the numbers issued to the customer, unless/until the customer provides legally valid proof that they have business using other numbers (if you're running some sort of customer support call center, say, contracting your services out to other companies, you ought to be able to prove that they've given you permission to use their numbers). This would cut lots of scammers off from one of their tools for tricking people.
Its not enough malware scams, and internet or NBN scams, now they go after Apple people from said Apple store ??
They must be desperate.. Makes DND that much more favorable
I have DND set to only allow calls if they in my contacts/favorites.. Much more control from users point..
if people say "they'll call you back" say "I have a better idea.. How about *I* call you back"
They must be desperate.. Makes DND that much more favorable
I have DND set to only allow calls if they in my contacts/favorites.. Much more control from users point..
if people say "they'll call you back" say "I have a better idea.. How about *I* call you back"
Yes, you may be true, but the thing is, almost certainly, I've never replied one of this e-mails. I think they may caught it from somewhere else, I honestly don't know.
But, anyway, I think one of this scammers has my e-mail tagged as an "Apple ID". What should I do now? Maybe changing the e-mail to my @me.com email adress? It's not a bad idea.
They promised me a Tesla and World Peace! Actually, they promised me World Peace and I said I'd only accept it if it came with a Tesla.
This issue is not limited to this store. I got a call the other day from one of these scammers and it came through as Apple North County store in Escondido, CA. I knew this number because I had a friend that worked there and the number was still associated with his contact card as work number. The thing is, I live in Washington State, so they are just randomly calling people.
I think they're just finding Retail Store numbers and spoofing them for these scam calls. I think the scam calls are random just looking for someone to pick up. I took the guy through it and recorded it because they called my Google Voice line. They use LogMeIn Rescue to control you computer and who knows what they do after that. I got as far as getting the LogMeIn number and then hung up on the guy. I imagine a lot of people fall for this. I've told everyone that Apple will never call them and to ignore this.
If you have the time, and a VPN, I highly recommend messing with these boneheads. It's moments of fun!
I think they're just finding Retail Store numbers and spoofing them for these scam calls. I think the scam calls are random just looking for someone to pick up. I took the guy through it and recorded it because they called my Google Voice line. They use LogMeIn Rescue to control you computer and who knows what they do after that. I got as far as getting the LogMeIn number and then hung up on the guy. I imagine a lot of people fall for this. I've told everyone that Apple will never call them and to ignore this.
If you have the time, and a VPN, I highly recommend messing with these boneheads. It's moments of fun!
The thing about me.com/icloud.com/mac.com is that they're all Apple domains. Kind of hard to avoid Apple-targeted scams that way.
Yeah except there's no way I'm giving the carriers access to my contact list. That's just asking for more trouble.
? i didn't say give carriers the contact list. i'm saying Siri should be able to screen these calls for me.