It is getting harder for people to find phone numbers these days to companies they do business. What’re we talking about?
Its simple. Use your favorite search engine and look up the phone number for a particular business like Amazon or Apple.
In the article in the Malwarebytes newsletter, they’re talking about a scheme where the actors publish a phone number, claim they’re apple support, and its the paid results of Google.
The web site that is hosting these pages? The repository called Git Hub.
At the time of writing the article, Microsoft, the parent company behind Git Hub, took the offending accounts down.
The operators would just put up HTML files with the Apple logo and call it good.
To read more about this scheme, please read their excellent article titled Scammers advertise fake AppleCare+ service via GitHub repos.
For reference, Apple’s number is (800) 275-2273 in the United States.