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How to block and filter phone numbers on your iPhone with the tools in iOSUnwanted phone calls are a part of everyday life, but the iPhone offers a number of ways to stop them from being a nuisance. AppleInsider explains ho…
... , while some unscrupulous firms and scam artists simply ignore the list ... belong to some sort of scam or used to commit fraud ... -
Fake U.S. Marshal steals an iPhone, Thailand 'iPhone killers,' and more from the Apple cri...A change in sentence for Thailand's "iPad killers," a court decision about Facebook logins, iPhone theft by ice cream vendors and more in this roundu…
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Best Buy 'Mission: Impossible', music festival iPhone thefts, World Cup warning and more o...Stealing $100,000 of product via rappelling, mass iPhone theft at the Firefly festival, and a warning about Russian hackers. The latest in an occasio…
... South Florida rental car theft scam A Florida theft ring that ... -
Many iPhone thefts, the girlfriend of a mob boss, and an Apple Store: The latest from the ...In this latest Apple crime roundup, iPhones get stolen in a variety of ways, the girlfriend of a mob boss asks for her phone back from the police, an…
... plead guilty in iPhone delivery scam Two of three defendants arrested ... to the Nashua Telegraph, the scam entailed stealing identities, opening accounts ... package from her home. The scam, police said, stole 200 identities ... -
The Apple Watch on cocaine, self-driving secrets, and other news from the Apple crime blot...Apple Stores nationwide suffer smash-and-grab thefts, and fallout from the arrest of an Apple employee caught attempting to flee to China with stolen…
... ." Man nabbed in iPhone purchase scam A man in Michigan was ... Nebraska after carrying out a scam in which he bought four ... -
Apple crime blotter: Find my iPhone locates carjacker, iPhone X chase, and moreFrom coast to coast, law enforcement follows the Find My iPhone signal to recover stolen devices. Plus, a theft spree during a marathon in India, and…
... by false pretense. iOS phishing scam leads to "Lance Roger at ... " A new variety of phishing scam has emerged, one that brings ... , and eventually extract money. The scam has been known to use ... -
Apple crime blotter: Apple Store receives meth, California thefts continue despite arrests...Several more Apple Store robberies in California, a Congressman's campaign cash spending spree including Apple Store visits, and an NFL star is accus…
... . Two arrested in iPhone delivery scam In a similar case to ... -
Rogue heart rate app highlights flaws in Apple's closed-door review processToday, multiple media outlets brought attention to a malicious "heart rate" scanning app that attempted to dupe wide-eyed shoppers into buying a $90 …
... on the app review process. Scam heart rate app The entire ... the Touch ID sensor. The scam is even more obvious when ... it happened to be a scam is quite unlikely and makes ... -
Crime blotter: Brazen iPad mini warehouse theft, restauranteur fencing stolen MacBooks, mo...Besides just a restaurant-owner that was selling pilfered MacBooks, Apple's iPad and iPhones are continuing targets of thefts everywhere, including f…
... Singapore caught in Apple purchase scam A man in Singapore was ... and charged with executing a scam in which he got several ... -
Crime blotter: AirDrop Cyberflashing rises, iPad theft leads to high-speed chase, and Appl...Two Apple thefts in the same part of New Jersey, an indictment for a professor who spent thousands of federal grant money on Apple purchases, and mor…
... man falls for "sophisticated" iPhone scam An 81-year-old Florida ... month fell for an online scam that entailed buying and ... for March 2019. Credit card scam perpetrators bought Apple products A ... According to Patch, when the scam operated beginning last year, the ... -
Crime blotter: A Walmart iPhone theft ring, New Hampshire delivery scammers sentencedPolice are seeking a pair of thieves nabbing Apple gear late at night from WalMarts, 1400 iPads lifted by civil servant, FedEx employees nabbed for g…
... identity theft scheme. In the scam, they stole the identities of ... ,000 in Apple gift card scam A resident of Northfield, Ill ... , before realizing it was a scam. Have an Apple-related crime ... -
Apple crime blotter: Roger Stone's iCloud, a Siri school shooting threat, and Find My iPho...Roger Stone is a big Apple user -- and that may be a problem for him, given that Apple has handed over data from his iCloud account in accordance wit…
... York man arrested in iPhone scam A man has been arrested ... that he carried out a scam in which he purchased multiple ... -
Feds bust $900,000 iPhone repair & return scam in OregonTwo engineering students in Oregon are accused of bringing thousands of counterfeit iPhones to Apple and having them replaced with real ones that the…
Two engineering students in Oregon are accused of bringing thousands of counterfeit iPhones to Apple and having them replaced with real ones that they then shipped to China for sale. Apple's Bridgeport Village Store, Oregon. Some of the alleged fraud was ... -
Accountant scams company out of $4.5M to buy, resell thousands of iPhones and iPadsA recent court hearing has exposed a long-running scam in which a Canadian accountant used a corporate credit card to buy and resell some $6 million …
... has exposed a long-running scam in which a Canadian accountant ... . Towards the end of the scam, Fung rented a virtual office ... -
How many iPhones are tossed in the trash because the finder or buyer could not locate the owner?<p>I found 3 iPhones in so cal parking lots all in one week back in 2015 or so and returned them as I could find their owners. Nowadays you can…
... Lock appears to be a scam. Apple benefits by selling more ... -
How to protect yourself against calls from fake Apple supportCalls from bogus Apple support representatives are on the rise. Scam-artists are using Apple's name, and spoofing phone numbers, in order to phish fo…
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Man defrauds Apple of $1M in refunds on claims company sent empty boxes to customersA Michigan man on Monday admitted to running an "empty-box" fraud scheme that cost Apple some $1 million in refunds for products that were claimed un…
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Man pleads guilty to trafficking counterfeit iPhones in Oregon return scamA Chinese student pleaded guilty in Oregon on Wednesday to one count of trafficking counterfeit iPhones, which he used to dupe Apple into giving him …
A Chinese student pleaded guilty in Oregon on Wednesday to one count of trafficking counterfeit iPhones, which he used to dupe Apple into giving him real units for sale in China. Between January 2016 and February 2018, Quan Jiang regularly received ... -
Apple Store armed robberies & 'Find My iPhone' solves crimes on the Apple crime blotterFind My iPhone catches more thieves, Amazon employees are caught stealing Apple Watches, and armed robberies at Apple stores in Arizona. All this and…
... -degree conspiracy. Apple gift card scam busted in Oregon Five people ... as an Apple gift card scam. Per KPTV, the conspiracy involved ... -
$19M in iPhones stolen & images on iPhones nail a Mueller witness on the Apple crime blott...A counterfeiting ring is busted, fingerprints on an iPhone catch an accused thief, and government officials' iPhones and iPads seized in Flint water …
... Quartz, the perpetrators ran a scam in which they posed as ... , revealing the perpetrators operated the scam in at least 34 states ... -
Apple warning customers that App Store gift cards can't pay income taxesApple is now warning customers up front that iTunes gift cards, in fact, cannot be used to pay taxes as number of fraud calls ramp up. <div align=…
... cards An all-too-common scam involves an unsuspecting mark receiving ... form of currency. Yet the scam has continued to be rampant ... packaging. In the U.S., scam phone calls have continued to ... -
Man uses iPhone as 'gun,' Hong Kong parts bust in the Apple crime blotterA Hong Kong counterfeiting scam is busted, Congressman's wife pleads guilty, a man defends his home by pretending an iPhone is a deadly weapon, and t…
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Crime blotter: AirDrop evacuates plane, iPad exposes massive insurance fraud & moreThieves use a truck as a battering ram in Houston to break into an Apple store, how a lost iPhone freed Kevin Spacey, and more from the Apple crime r…
... executed a large insurance fraud scam involving personal training services and ... -
Tips and tricks for mastering Apple CardWhile Apple Card still operates as a traditional credit card, Apple has mixed things up with its skill of blending hardware and software. To help you…
... -- such as through a phishing scam, you can get a new ... -
Crime blotter: Accused robber shot and killed at Dallas Apple StoreMillion-dollar iPhone ring theft busted, and Apple Store thefts throughout the U.S. and Canada. <div align="center"><img src="https://photos5.app…
... Vegas for attempting a similar scam. He was charged with grand ... -
Crime blotter: Festival thefts and drugs weighed on iPhonesHundreds of iPhones are stolen from a festival, a credit card forgery ring is spotted in an Apple Store, and police warn of a drug-dealing scam using…
... warn of a drug-dealing scam using iPhones as weighing scales ... over $18,000. Police tout "scam" of drug dealers weighing drugs ... its community aware of a "scam," in which "untrustworthy drug dealers ... -
April 2019 in review: Apple settles with Qualcomm to get its 5G modemThe month after a lot of product releases always goes the same way with people immediately looking to what's next. In April, though, we may have had …
... delayed. One accountant managed to scam her own company out of ... involved in a "repair & return" scam involving $900,000 in iPhones ... -
Crime blotter: blowtorches used to steal iPhones, and a carjacker fought off with an iPadThieves in the UK stealing iPhones are using blowtorches to melt locks, while a ten-year-old whacks a carjacker over the head with an iPad. Plus, App…
... woman falls for gift card scam A woman in the Chicago ... was the victim of a scam in which she received a ... -
Crime blotter: High-level crime allegations in Washington DC, plus robberies, attacks, and...The likes of Lev Parnas, Harvey Weinstein and George Nader all got into trouble with the iPhones this week, plus one man tried to cover his tracks by…
... leads to Apple gift card scam A California man was targeted ... and Costco cards, indicating the scam had been executed previously. The ... -
Crime blotter: Postal bribery, Apple Store thefts, and gift card scamsA federal indictment for attempted postal bribery, stolen Apple devices in ecoATM recycling machines, a spate of Apple Store thefts, and other news a…
... spoofed in gift card scam A nationwide scam has been seeking to ... to submit gift cards. The scam, per an FTC blog post ...
