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title: iPhone Phishing Scam That Involves Fake Apple Support Call
description: Phishing iPhone users. Here is an example of an iPhone phishing attack and what cyber criminals were after. What is the point of an iPhone phishing attack?
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# [iPhone Phishing Scam That Involves Fake Apple Support Call](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/iphone-phishing-scam-example)

 Written by [SecureWorld News Team](https://www.secureworld.io/industry-news/author/secureworld-news-team) | Mon | Aug 6, 2018 | 2:32 PM Z

We heard a lot of predictions at [SecureWorld](https://www.secureworld.io/events) cybersecurity conferences last year that a growing number of cyber attacks would be aimed at users of mobile devices during 2018.

*And those predictions are coming true.*

"Exhibit A" comes from a reporter at *Ars Technica* who had this message pop up on his phone over the weekend:

It was a message asking him to contact support with a pop-up box featuring the number to call.

The reporter did call and someone claiming to be from Apple Care answered.

You can read the first-hand account of what happened next in *[Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/click-on-this-ios-phishing-scam-and-youll-be-connected-to-apple-care/)*, but the reporter discovered the point of this iPhone phishing scam after some digging:

This particular phish, targeted at email addresses associated with Apple's iCloud service, appears to be linked to efforts to fool iPhone users [into allowing attackers to enroll them into rogue mobile device management services](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/07/hyper-targeted-attack-against-13-iphones-dropped-malicious-apps-via-mdm/) that allow bad actors to push compromised applications to the victim's phones as part of a fraudulent Apple "security service."

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