If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it’s probably an iPhone 5 texting-based scam run by people that should rightfully be trampled by irate moose.
Per the cool cats at The Mac Observer, a scam purporting to offer you the opportunity to “test and keep the New iPhone5!” began making new rounds on Thursday. iPhone users received text messages with the bogus offer, which is an effort to lure people to a website and give up personal information or some other nefarious scheme.
The scam message many of us have received:
This scam first began circulating in February, but the scumbags responsible sent out a new wave of texts today.
To recap:
– This is a scam
– Apple does not send out unannounced products for testing outside of Apple
– Even if it did decide to test its devices in this fashion, it wouldn’t do so by sending random text messages
– This scam is similar to another scam currently circulating via Twitter that purports to be from Draw Something. It is not from Draw Something, or the game’s parent company, Zynga, but it is a scam trying to get your personal information.
Stay tuned for additional details as they become available and if any of you have an insight as to who’s spreading this effort around, feel free to lead your own “Frankenstein”-esque mob, complete with pitchforks and torches, to whomever is doing this so they may be hung up by their spleens and made to listen to Rebecca Black’s “Friday” on an infinite loop…