Today, let's go through one of the best, most convincing Apple scams that's out there right now.

This particular scam really has it all. It has a genuine request with a real support ticket coming from Apple themselves.

It has real alerts coming to your phone, your computer, and your tablet, as well as perfectly timed phone calls coming from someone who claims to

be Apple support. This scam, it's really good enough to trick even extremely skeptical people,

and so today, let's go through it so that you don't get scamp. And of course, if you appreciate

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to pick the episode up and share it to ever more people. Thank you very much. So to start with,

the overview of how this scam works comes to us from a man by the name of Eric Moray. He is a product

manager over at Broadcom Software in Silicon Valley.

And on Wednesday, November the 12th, he became the victim of this very sophisticated scam,

and he later went on to detail his experience in an article titled, quote,

I almost lost my Apple account to the most sophisticated fishing attack I've ever seen,

how scammers weaponized Apple's own support

system to bypass two-factor authentication and how I barely escaped. Now, if you want to read his

original account, I will throw a link to his article. You can find it down in the description box below.

However, what I did is I converted his experience into a visual timeline that we can look and track together how the whole thing progressed over time.

Now, the whole thing began at 3.17 p.m. with what we call the setup.

It came in the form of a text message.

Basically, it was one of those two-factor authentication text messages that you receive when you're using a new computer to log into your

bank account or some other account and it sends you a six-digit code and it tells you not to

share that code with anyone. Now, once Eric received that text message, he found it strange,

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