iPhone Robbers Try to iPhish Victims
Summary: A reader in Porto Alegre, Brazil, reported that after three robbers took his wife's iPhone 5s in broad daylight, he received SMS messages claiming the phone had been found, each linking to a phishing page mimicking Apple's sign-in site and hosted on a free web host. Two days later he received an automated call from a strange number, in a voice resembling Siri or Waze, telling him the iPhone had been found and to check his SMS.
Bottom line: The theft of a locked phone is now the opening move in a credential-phishing campaign against the owner's Apple ID, run through texts and voice calls that arrive exactly when the victim is most anxious to recover the device.
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