800-874-8529

While my son was watching a video on his iPhone, a pop up window came up reporting IOS errors.  He was instructed to call the # shown and told that he needed to spend 80 bucks to fix those errors.  He was also told that due to a third party using it Safari would no longer work.  He gave his apple ID (which we will now change) but not his credit card # (thank God).
He said he was from the Apple Company in California.  My son was confused and I am not sure.  I figure if it's an 800 # - go with your gut and do NOT give out sensitive info.  I guess we will see if he calls back or sends my son an email.

Hi,

I received the same exact thing. Instead of $80 they said 59.99 anyways I hanged up. Just go to settings, safari, and clear history. After you clear history and cookies it should be back to normal again.

But I was wondering if we really needed to change the email? Apple ID?

Hi!
The same thing just happened to me
You are right DO NOT give them any info.
I called them and they said 80$ I said let me get home and get the credit card info for you and I hanged up.
I went to the Apple Store
The nice guy there told me to do the following:
Go to settings>> Safari >> scroll down and choose Clear history and website date
And.. boom! iPhone working fine!
These thieves have to be reported they think they're smart

Got the pop up on my Ipad. After realizing it would not go away I made the call to the 800
Number which clearly was redirected to India
Or pakistsn. I gave them no
Informatikn . The suggestions from this site got
My device back t I normal.

Same thing happen to me don't trust them. I called to apple support and they fix it. It easy thing Go to Settings
click on Safari Scroll down and
click on clear history and website data

Done 😀😀😀😀

My girlfriend got one of these on her phone.  She was smart and called me instead (IT guy), and I told her never to call anyone under circumstances like this.  These are obviously scammers.

Thank you!

I called this number and then thought I should be calling my carrier not some anonymous number. Googled the number and arrived here. Thank you everyone who recommend going to Settings and clearing my history. Worked like a charm!!!

I also rec'd that message. Followed the above advice, cleared my history and all is well.
Thoroughly disgusted that people make a living screwing with us!

Yup.  I called the same number and the "technician" INSISTED he was with Apple, he is NOT.
This is a scam, scam, scam.  I was told to do a number of things including giving my apple id.
This smelled very very strange to me, I told the guy he was a scam and he insisted it was not.
JUST DO GO TO SETTINGS, SAFARI, CLEAR HISTORY and it's all fine.  These websites crash your phone then want money to "fix" it, I can't imagine what else they would have installed on your phone along with their "fix".
Scary stuff very bad people doing very bad things.  BEWARE!

Same thing happened to us while my wife was on her iPad. Thank you to those of you who gave the proper instructions: settings, Safari, clear history; yes, this is a scam!!! We were told it would be $29.99 to correct it but we informed them we would simply take it to the Apple Store and hung up. Sad that people feel the need to do this. 😡

I git this pop up in my safari that would not go away even after restarting my iphone. Do not call this number, its a scam. I called directly apple tech support and all you have to do is go in your settings and click on safari and click clear history and website data. It will work as new after this.

oops the number was 1800-874-8529 ( iso error number was the scam) my copy paste didn't work.

I got the same pop-up in my safari and decided to call this 800 number. The lady who answered my call sounds like Indian and i cant hardly understand what she was talking about. But when she said i have to pay $60 i realized this is a scam. i asked her again if i indeed have to pay and she said yes i hung up right away. I googled the number and im glad that i found the above comments very helpful.

Thank u so much for your info. My phone got this message and I was leery because this is an iphone they dont get virus so i decided to look up the number. This happened on my computer. They got me on that one. One time shame on u. two times shame on me!!!

I got this message on my iphone as an IOS message which said my internet had crashed to call the number. I got this same message on my personal computer.

yes thank you

Got a message saying my iOS crashed and my access to google was blocked by a third party. The number given to call came to a person who said he was a tech for Apple. He said he could fix my problem for 59.99. I hung up

thank you your help my phone back to normal

Thank you!!!