{"id":1002643,"date":"2026-04-13T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002643"},"modified":"2026-04-13T08:19:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T02:49:26","slug":"apple-pay-scam-targeting-iphones-spreads-fast-experts-warn-of-major-financial-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/13\/apple-pay-scam-targeting-iphones-spreads-fast-experts-warn-of-major-financial-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Pay scam targeting iPhones spreads fast: Experts warn of major financial risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new scam targeting iPhone users is rapidly spreading across the United States, with fraudsters using fake Apple Pay alerts that trick victims into revealing sensitive information and potentially emptying their bank accounts. <\/p>\n<p>According to a detailed warning from Consumer Affairs, scammers are sending convincing text messages that mimic official Apple Pay fraud alerts. These messages typically claim that suspicious or unauthorised transactions have been detected, urgently instructing the recipients to call a provided phone number to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new scam targeting iPhone users is rapidly spreading across the United States, with fraudsters using fake Apple Pay alerts that trick victims into revealing sensitive information and potentially emptying their bank accounts. According to a detailed warning from Consumer Affairs, scammers are sending convincing text messages that mimic official Apple Pay fraud alerts. These messages typically claim that suspicious or unauthorised transactions have been detected, urgently instructing the recipients to call a provided phone number to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}