Paul C.in Washington, D.C., received an alarming text claiming Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250 and another $8,250 would go through in 35 minutes.
That is the kind of message designed to make your stomach drop before you have time to think.Paul did the smart thing.He stopped, avoided the callback number and sent the text to us.
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(Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)The message claimed $8,250 had already been charged through Apple Pay and warned that a duplicate $8,250 transaction would "auto-approve" in 35 minutes.It told Paul to call an 855 number, quote "Case CA-3321" and "verbally kill the pending charge." We partially masked the callback number so no one calls it accidentally.The message looks chaotic, but nearly every phrase has a purpose.
The sender uses dramatic wording, fake authority and a tight deadline to push Paul toward one action: calling the number in the text.The message came from a number beginning with +44, the international calling code for the United Kingdo...