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If you get an unexpected iPhone shipped to you using it is just giving hackers your bank accounts and passwords. Here’s what to look for, who to tell about it, and how to deal with it.

White iPhone box wrapped in plastic lying on a soft surface, with a colorful accessory package partially visible underneath in the lower part of the scene
The sealed iPhone that turned up at a Reddit user’s house – image credit: Remarkable_Source_64 on Reddit.

Well, maybe you do have a secret admirer, we’re not judging and you are looking very good today. But a surprise gift of an iPhone will seem to be too good to be true because it is.

It will have been sent to you, or someone in your life who has a big job, in the hope, and possibly the fair expectation, that you won’t question your luck and instead will enjoy the phone. Then every single thing you do on that phone is harvested and sent to fraudsters.

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