Security News > 2020 > February > Apple iPhone Users Targeted with Bogus Dating App for Valentine’s Day

A malicious email campaign aimed at iPhone owners is making the rounds this week, using a bouquet of different themes to scam victims, just in time for Valentine's Day - including a fake dating app.

Once the email body is clicked, the victim is taken on "a seemingly endless redirect loop," until neuropathy is left far behind, and the victim lands on what purports to be a dating app for Apple's iPhone.

"The scammers meticulously localized their dating app to display the messages in the recipient's language, in our case, Romanian," the researchers explained.

Clicking through surprisingly takes users to a legitimate app in the official Apple App Store, called ColibriVPN. Bitdefender noted that while it's a real app, the service is shady at best.

Users usually have several ways to spot scam emails before clicking through to the scams themselves, Bitdefender pointed out.

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