No, Apple is not fixing overheating iPhone 15s. Watch out for another scam

After the premiere of the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, some users reported that both devices heat up significantly – not only when starting the device or playing graphics-intensive games, but also during everyday use of the smartphone.

Apple decided to look into the matter and quite quickly found the culprit. It turned out to be a bug in the latest version of iOS 17.

Your device may appear warmer during the first few days after setup or restoration due to increased background activity. […] We also found a bug in iOS 17 that affects some users and will be resolved in a software update

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Apple decided to close the topic of “Overheat-gate” in the only right way: by releasing an update for iOS 17. The update number 17.0.3 was made available on Wednesday and – as the manufacturer emphasizes – it eliminated the problem with overheating of devices.

iPhone 15 overheats. No, Apple has not launched a refund program

While the problem of overheating iPhones has been written about in the media all over the world (and rightly so), its solution has not necessarily been the case. As a result, this information probably did not reach all interested persons. Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of this fact.

Some iPhone users have been receiving strange calls for several days. Their interlocutors introduce themselves as employees of mobile networks and inform about the need to replace the phone under the Apple return program due to overheating of devices.

Of course, there is no returns program. This is a scam designed to steal phones. As if that wasn’t enough, thieves mainly contact people who ordered iPhones but have not yet received the shipment with the device. They try to extract shipment data from them in order to then “take over” it directly from the courier company. Unfortunately, in several cases they succeeded.

The fact that the criminals have the victims’ contact details and know that they are waiting for an iPhone shipment may indicate that we are dealing with a group that has contacts in mobile networks or courier companies. The attacks are not random.

So far, there is no information that a similar practice has also reached Poland. However, it is worth being careful and remembering that criminals can easily impersonate the operator or store where we ordered the smartphone. For this purpose, they use the so-called spoofing, which is also a popular fraud method in our country.

What is spoofing?

Telephone spoofing involves impersonating other numbers and then calling victims from them and pretending to be someone else. Fraudsters use VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) technology and the so-called telephone gateways, thanks to which they impersonate, for example, the official hotline of a bank, mobile network, cable television or gas or electricity supplier.