An old scam has been updated for the mobile 21st century.

Apparently there’s a new phishing scam that’s targeting iPhone users. I guess this means that iPhones have really saturated the market.

According to Sophos, the subject line:
IMPORTANT: Your iPhone Warranty Extension for 1 Year!
The forged sender:
iphonewarranty at apple dot com

The phishing scam is trying to get people to disclose their iPhone’s Serial number and International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number.

The page asking for such information even includes links to the actual Apple site showing how one could find such information if the person doesn’t know how. How helpful. (Though, one would argue that Apple could then more easily find these fake sites and shut them down more quickly.)

According to Sophos’ researchers, they think it might be an effort to help with stolen iPhones. It’s like stealing license plates from cars and putting them on stolen cars so it looks legitimate.

Or maybe something else is to come.