iPhone owners warned over dangerous scam call from 'Apple'

Apple customers are receiving calls that appear in almost every way to be from Apple – except they are from scammers trying to steal money. As part of the attacks, people will receive calls from people that appear to be in customer service: they will ring from an Apple number, and identify themselves correctly, before asking for some information. It is almost impossible to spot that the calls are actually coming from somewhere else entirely. That's because attackers are becoming increasingly sophisticated in their ability to spoof official numbers, meaning that even the phone number they are ringing from looks legitimate. The scams are becoming so advanced that they even caught out Jody Westby, the CEO of a cyber security research firm, reports expert Brian Krebs.