It's always good to remember: don't fall for iCloud scams / Search My iPhone with strange links sent by SMS!

The old scam. Apple itself has already warned of this and in May 2015 (!) We recorded the case of a specialized gang arrested in So Paulo.

But, as we have not touched on the subject for a long time and similar cases continue to pop up all the time, it does not cost us anything to “revalidate” this alert.

Basically, what happens that criminals try to take advantage of despair of someone who lost or had their iPhone stolen / stolen and is trying to recover it using the Find My iPhone app / feature to deliver a scam like phishing. This means that he is only successful if the user himself does not pay attention and is deceived by something false that appears to be real.

In the case of iCloud / Find My iPhone, the most common form of attack via SMS. Here are a few varied examples: