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Because they would never have been able to download a malicious app… simples!!
Of course iPhones can't completely fix everything, you still need to keep passwords safe etc, but it's a step in the right direction.
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XcodeGhost & GoldPickaxe both say Hi! Of course the iPhone is locked down, so much so that it restricts anything you can do with it.
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Getting a bit off topic here, but for someone to get a malicious app on their Android phone they'd need to sideload it, or the Google play store would need to be tricked into hosting a malicious app - and the same things would apply to an iPhone. XcodeGhost, as mentioned above, for the iPhone for example.
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Because scammers never target iphone users 🙄
Things that are different: draw & drawer, brought & bought, loose & lose, dose & does, payed & paid2 -
Non smug iphone user here, stupid answers don't really help
Things that are different: draw & drawer, brought & bought, loose & lose, dose & does, payed & paid2 -
The OP says on the first page they downloaded the scammers app unless I misunderstood. I was under the impression the Apple App Store was more secure but obviously not. Every day’s a school day!
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For all those speculating but have not bothered to watch Scam Interceptors, the apps that the scammers insist the victims download, in every case I've seen, are genuine remote access apps such as TeamViewer and they then persuade the victim to grant full access to the device and it all goes downhill from there.
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Listen to the BBC podcast series Scam Secrets
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If it is any consolation, a university professor friend of mine was duped in this way. His wife was standing beside him going spare and unable to get his attention. It’s really weird how people can be taken advantage of like this.
No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?1 -
This guy stops a chap from USA being scammed of $200k
The lengths he had to go through to bypass the social engineering these scammers use was above and beyond
**** warning - there is some bad language ******
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