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all right we got a warning for all
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iPhone users a new fishing scam is
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targeting your Apple ID information
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officials from security software company
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C cement uh they say that cyber
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criminals are sending malicious texts to
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get you to share your signin details CBS
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news reporter Megan cillo is joining us
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now to talk a little bit more about this
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what they don't know is I regularly
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forget my signin details I can never
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remember my password um so won't work on
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me but explain how this does work this
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is what's called a smishing attempt so
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it's a hybrid of fishing and SMS
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messaging SMS messages or short text
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messages and cyber criminals instead of
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targeting people by email are sending
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text messages and asking iPhone users
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for their apple IDs and once a bad actor
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has your Apple ID that gives them access
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to a whole Trove of information and they
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can use it to make purchases so it's
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it's really sensitive information that
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they're going after okay so break it
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down for us so that we know so people
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know how they can protect themselves
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from this you get this text message what
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say so first of all the first red flag
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is that it will appear to come to to to
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come from Apple but the the it's likely
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from a an unusual number or there will
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be misspellings in in the email address
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right because they can they can text you
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by email so it might say like a.p. p.l.
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at connection or connection will be
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spelled with an a incorrectly so be
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alert to to those kinds of things Apple
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also says they will never text users
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links asking for their iCloud
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information that will never come from
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Apple and one of the reasons why this
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scam has been successful is because
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people trust Brands like apple and so
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when you get a text that appears to be
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from a trusted company you're inclined
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to believe that it's legitimate um these
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in this instance these cyber criminals
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are also um making users complete a cap
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capture challenge which makes it look
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more legitimate like because they've
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added a layer are you a human do this
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little exactly um but don't give it up
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wow okay that's that's it I just you
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know if if it's a link then really
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really question whether or not you want
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exactly Apple has been direct they they
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did tell us they will never send you a
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link to click on and it'll take you this
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phony link will take you to a landing
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page that appears legitimate because
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anyone can copy and paste the iCloud
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logo um so it's something to beer too
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all right all right Megan thank you very
