Apple Approval Notice text message scam

I HAVE NOT ORDERED ANY ITEM FROM THE APPLE STORE!

the activity is a scam!🤨

I would like to obtain a 19th generation iPad MANUAL! Any suggestions?

Same scam message. 2/27/25

Tipitoes4 wrote:

Same scam message. 2/27/25

It’ll continue on for years across millions of people too, and for however long people are fooled by the scam.

Hey y’all, it is march 6th 2025. I received this msg twice in one week. Still going around I see. The exact same msg down to the dollar amount. I knew it was scam.

Scam

Just received this text today but glad to confirm it was a scam bc I was concerned

I just got a text saying almost the exact same thing. The amount listed in my text was also exactly $143.95!

And I see your comment was from Aug 6th, so considering today is Sept 18th, these criminals have been at this for at least a month and a half now - this needs to be stopped!!!

KMP6276 wrote:

this needs to be stopped!!!

It's a case of whack-a-mole. You can report it to Apple using the mail address I provided in my earlier response but frankly even if Apple can stop one (and I don't know how they can do that with text messages), another one will pop up. We are living in an age where you have to be a smart consumer and this is the 21st century version of cons who have been around for centuries.

PR-2022 wrote:

I Just got one today during the Thanksgiving meal. I agree these criminals must be stopped.

Whack-a-mole.

The real way to stop them would be for email providers to charge something for every email sent. It would have to be a fairly hefty charge because even if only one in a thousand people fall for the scam, it is a worthy payoff for the scammers even if they had to pay for email. So you'd have to make it like 10c per email sent so it wouldn't be profitable for the scammers. Now you have to convince everybody in the world that they have to start paying per email sent. >:-) It's either that, or get people to learn about scams and how to avoid them. Not sure which would be harder.

I received similar today at 7:58 am!!

Your Apple-ID was recently used at

"APPLE*STORE" for $223.49 via

Apple:Pay . To contact a representative, please call +1*******49

These **** messages is absolutely asinine and highly irritating to the point I honestly believe Apple is behind some of it! Same as slowing my phone down! I’m getting away from Apple altogether bc I’m just tired of the nonsense and changing my number too! No matter how many times this is reported nothing is done!

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12/18/2024 I signed into eBay with my Apple ID and then received an email about suspicious activity and to change my password. I changed my Apple ID password and then I received this same message posted above via text 40 mins ago. I wasn't sure if any of it was tied together, but thought I would share.

It might not be necessary to you, but to people like me it was very helpful! Seeing that so many people had received the exact same message that I had really eased my anxiety that I had about funds possibly being taken out of my account!

Oh wow. This one almost got me. So many charges over the holidays... no idea what the $143.95 could be for... The only thing that tipped me off was the country code of +63. Does Apple operate out of the Phillipines?

waiminghe wrote:

Got this today, it looks like they revised the message:

It's not necessarily the same people sending out the message. The actual words differ from message to message. That's why it's important to learn to recognize the patterns.

Here we are in the new year. Jan 9, 2025, and I got this scam today on my iPhone. I almost fell for it because my credit card got jacked last week, and YESTERDAY, I updated all my info with the new credit card. So, I already have PTSD from getting my life turned upside down. I thought, GREAT, what did I do incorrectly when entering the new credit card number that made me a victim again? I was so relieved when I saw this post.