What Westby’s iPhone displayed as the scam caller’s identity. Here’s what her iPhone displayed about the identity of the caller when they first tried her number at 4:34 p.m. The message said she needed to call a 1-866 number before doing anything else with her phone. the day before, but she didn’t answer that call). Westby said earlier today she received an automated call on her iPhone warning that multiple servers containing Apple user IDs had been compromised (the same scammers had called her at 4:34 p.m. Jody Westby is the CEO of Global Cyber Risk LLC, a security consulting firm based in Washington, D.C. The scary part is that if the recipient is an iPhone user who then requests a call back from Apple’s legitimate customer support Web page, the fake call gets indexed in the iPhone’s “recent calls” list as a previous call from the legitimate Apple Support line. It starts with an automated call that display’s Apple’s logo, address and real phone number, warning about a data breach at the company. A new phone-based phishing scam that spoofs Apple Inc.
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