Don't fall for the phony 'AppleCare' scam
As a freelancer who often writes about personal finances and careers, I like to think I’m above average in my knowledge of things related to money. But I felt pretty foolish when, in a vulnerable moment, I recently gave scammers direct access to my bank account. I fell for the phony ‘AppleCare’ scam and I hope my story about the experience keeps you from doing the same.
personal losses related to gift card purchases totaled $53 million through September 2018. That’s up from $20 million for the entire year of 2015. And it represents only those cases that have been reported.cost was at least 10 times that because of the hours I had to devote to cleaning up the mess I’d made which I could’ve spent earning freelance money.It was the day after returning from a two-week trip to Uganda.
I believed I’d enabled the hack through my carelessness. As I started to berate myself aloud, the caller told me not to be so hard on myself. He would stay with me and install provisions to prevent this from happening again, he said, comfortingly. We entered a site designed to look like it came from the U.S. government. I remember being surprised that Apple was working so intimately with the government, but the site looked legit. So, I kept going.Our next destination was something called the “Coinbase” site, which I was told would register me in the government system and install a protective shield against future invasions. I just had to scan in my driver’s license as well as my Social Security number, although that number was masked.
At the next store, a CVS, fortune stepped in. Although I went to the register with $500 worth of Google Play cards, only $200 could be validated because of a problem on the store’s side. When I returned to the car, the voice on the phone sounded different. Suddenly, I was told to get gift cards totaling $500, and not to go to the same register as before. I went back, my cards still wouldn’t work and got back in the car.
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