JD.com Finance: it is a fraud to call FaceTime by pretending to be customer service. Apple users answer carefully.

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizens for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, July 15, JD.com Financial issued an announcement, saying that some fraudsters contacted through the FaceTime call function of Apple phones, impersonating customer service on financial platforms, and asked victims to download screen sharing software on the grounds of canceling loan accounts and generating bad credit information, and induced remittances step by step, resulting in capital losses.

JD.com Financial Tips:

Official customer service will not handle any problems through FaceTime.

Please be careful to answer calls from strange FaceTime

In case of fraud, please report to the police as soon as possible.

CTOnews.com Note: FaceTime is a built-in video call software from Apple's iOS, Mac OS and iPad OS that connects to the Internet via WiFi or cellular data to make video calls between two FaceTime-equipped devices. It requires that both sides of the call have an Apple device with FaceTime, an Apple ID, a 3G / 4G / 5G or WiFi network with Internet access.

JD.com Financial said that there are three main purposes of FaceTime video fraud:

Send spam: once you answer it, spam will appear on the screen.

Test account activity: used for the next step of harassment, account theft and other operations.

Intercept facial portraits: may be used to crack face recognition systems and other purposes.

The principle of FaceTime video fraud is that on any Apple device running iOS (MAC), strangers can add contacts (your number) to the address book and dial directly, which is an one-way contact problem.