Security Tales: The Scam Cable
Vladimir Bezmaly | 10/23/2018
The autumn morning was surprisingly cold, but sunny. The trees were already shining with yellow leaves. Potapych loved this time of day. It was already cold in the morning, but the day promised to be sunny, which meant it would still be warm. It was so nice to walk and walk on such a morning!
- Potapych, can you come?
- Khryusha, you'd better come yourself. Such a morning! It's a sin to sit at home, you'd better come to the park.
- I'm coming! I'll just grab a thermos of tea and some sandwiches. And then I'll run.
- Come on, I'm waiting!
Half an hour passed. And here comes Khryusha.
- Well, tell me, what happened?
- On the run? Let's sit down, pour some tea and talk. I have a problem. A stupid problem and I don't understand what happened.
- Tell me. If it's something serious, let's go to the police.
- Wait, go to the police. I'll tell you first, and then we'll go. Okay?
- Okay. What happened?
- Yes, my iPhone has gone crazy. The device has started living its own life, not obeying me.
- Wait. Let's start from the beginning.
— Well, I’ll tell you. You know that I use an iPhone. But the day before yesterday, my neighbor’s dog chewed through my charging cable. I decided to buy a new one. And I saw an ad on an online sales site. Yes. It was unlikely to be an original cable. But you understand that I don’t live very richly, I have to save.
- And what?
- Well, I bought a cable. Everything seemed to work. Then I connected the smartphone to the charger and put it on the table.
— And then the miracles began. My iPhone opened an greece mobile database travel agency app on its own and booked a presidential suite at a hotel in a foreign resort.
- Wow! It's funny, though.
— Moreover, the smartphone even made an attempt to pay for the reservation.
- So you still have no money?
- Potapych, well, I'm certainly a fool, but not that much. I don't have a card recorded in my smartphone. And besides, I managed to pull out the charging cable before the operation was completed. Besides, the phone also switched from 4G to 2G.