Scammed On Apple Cash. The cash app told us it almost always deals with users via email, rarely, if ever, on the phone, and email comes from specific addresses that end with cash.app, square.com, or squareup.com. Once you are in the activity tab, find the payment that you wish to cancel.
Open the cash app on your mobile phone. Op was the victim of fraud by the scammer: It would read something like “your apple account is now locked” and will lure you into accessing a link which supposedly unlocks your account.
Fraud is defined as an act of deliberate deception that results in some sort of personal gain.
Money you get can be spent at merchants that take apple pay or moved. The biggest red flag i ignored was the scammer’s insistence on using apple cash, a payment method i was unfamiliar with. Cash app scammers are seeking to capitalize on #cashappfriday, researchers from tenable say, via instagram and youtube, with $10 to $1,000 being stolen from victims. It’s up to you to stay vigilant and informed of how they con people out of their cash.
