Apple revises its support page giving hints on how to avoid getting wiped out by a scammer.
Apple has updated the support page that gives tips to iPhone, iPad, and Mac users telling them how to avoid getting scammed by email and SMS phishing attacks and fake support calls. These attacks have one goal and that is to get you to reveal some personal information such as passwords and social security numbers. Armed with this personal data, the attacker looks to break into his victims’ banking apps, trading apps, credit card apps, and other financial apps.
Once the attacker accesses one of the accounts belonging to a victim, he changes the password and address to lock out the account’s real owner and transfers bank account balances to an account he controls. With a stock trading account, the attacker liquidates all holdings and has the funds wired to an account he owns. After changing the address of a credit card account, the bad actor can claim his cards have been stolen and request new cards get sent to his address. The bad thing is that by the time any of these things are discovered, it might be too late to reverse the bad deeds.How do scammers try to get you to reveal personal data?
Phishing is an email or text that appears to come from a legitimate firm that you do business with. But the message really comes from a scammer who tries to get you to tap on a link by scaring you. You might receive a notice that claims to come from your bank to verify a huge wire transfer.
