You know what I like about this channel, is the straight forward no-nonsense approach. You get directly to the point of the subject, no ‘b-roll’, rubbish music, ego-driven intros, all business from start to finish, don’t change.👍
@@everything4tonce Changing all of your passwords is good. And you were/are using two-factor for your Apple ID, right? If so, they couldn't have logged in without your second factor. So you are probably OK. Just watch everything like a hawk for the next few days. Check in www.icloud.com/settings/ to make sure you recognize all of the devices there. Apple has a checklist of other things here: support.apple.com/en-us/HT204145
Excellent content. As a former Apple employee, retail, I can tell you we heard almost every variant of scam you could imagine - "They said my files were all locked!" ... "They told me to buy these gift cards immediately or else," and so many more. Sometimes it was hard to talk them out of their fears, but we did. Thanks for this.
Thank you, Gary. My FIL was taken for $12000.00 in the gift card scam. A caller spoofed Apple's old support phone line, which showed up on his iPhone screen as Apple. They said after he pays them in gift cards, they would take over his computer and recover his files (which didn't need to be done). Instead of calling me to verify, he did everything they asked. Sigh.
Thanks Gary. I’ve been caught with the one, bought an old MacBook Pro, that was too old, and wouldn’t work. As a glutton for punishment, some years later I bought a iMac. Same thing! Thanks for this very informative video! Hopefully others won’t make the same expensive mistake that I’ve done. I now have a new one, from a real shop!
Great video you put together here. The scams are always arriving in the inbox 😡 Question: Do you have a video regarding how to manage more than 1 desktop? I realize lately I need to have a desktop for certain tasks and a second desktop for casual internet surfing. Thank you!
I have lots of videos for using Mission Control and Spaces and such. But it is really just a matter of getting used to it and figuring out what works best for you.
I was looking on eBay for non mac related things just now, and i happened to come across a listing for a 2013 MacBook Air (10 day auction with buy it now) with a starting bid of £0.99 (or buy it now for something like £199.99) It is listed as coming with the charger, documentation, extension cable, and even the box (and all of these things are shown in the photos) After having a very close look at the listing, and also checking the sellers feedback, i decided to place a bid on it, i won’t reveal what my bid is, but it is quite low, and i am expecting to get outbid, i will actually be surprised if i win the auction
Another scam that's not necessarily Apple-related, but related to some Apple-based videos on TH-cam, is one that can occur after leaving a comment on a tech review. What happens is that a scammer, who is posing as the actual content creator, will give a thumbs-up on your comment and then ask you to contact him/her on Telegram or some other social media site. It basically depends on what the creator uses. Once you contact the scammer on the fake account, he will tell you that you've won a large number of new Apple products including merch (if any) that the creator has. They will then ask for your shipping address and then present you with "shipping options" that can vary between 100 and 300 dollars, including a "shipping company" out of India. And yes, they will ask you to pay for shipping via Apple or Ebay gift cards. Amazing. They told me they were giving me the green iPhone 13 Pro, a new iPad Air, a Mac Studio, and the Studio Display. Woohoo! These scammers will use any popular tech TH-camr channel for this scam. Beware!
I kinda wish Apple would allow us to plug in the serial number and they’ll tell us if the device is iCloud activation locked or not. That would really help with buying resale. It’s not a cure all, for sure but it would help.
We buy all our Macs from OWC. They are the only place I've found who will upgrade, like add more RAM. The Macs arrive like new with a 1-year warrantee.
With websites like online shops, banking, etc… i have bookmarks for those websites saved in my browser (which is Firefox since i don’t currently have a Mac, just a Windows PC, and one advantage of Firefox over Microsoft Edge is my bookmarks will synchronise between devices with completely different operating systems) I am planning on getting a desktop Mac, although it will be a while (possibly over a year) before i will be able to get one I have been considering getting a cheap second hand Mac from a reputable company I had a look on the website of a company that sells second hand stuff just now, and the cheapest mac they have is a refurbished late 2014 Mac Mini, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, for £189.99 I am tempted, but i think i will wait until i can get a brand new desktop Mac directly from Apple (will most likely be a Mac Studio) I might look into what refurbished MacBooks they have once i have gotten the desktop Mac, i might get a refurbished intel MacBook (probably a 13 inch)
Hi My MacBook Air M1 ‘s space key is not working in ‘Finder search’. It is working in all other applications Note: Space key is working in another user same computer
That's odd. Even after a restart? I'd start looking at what system extensions I have installed, and also through System Preferences, to see if you have any unusual settings. Though I can't think of anything offhand that would cause that.
I just got a text my appel acout did sumthink ilegal my account is going to close ring them , my mum was trying to be charged agen bank stop it we only top up my phone and that's with 3 not appeal what do I do ring them or ? Play
You know what I like about this channel, is the straight forward no-nonsense approach. You get directly to the point of the subject, no ‘b-roll’, rubbish music, ego-driven intros, all business from start to finish, don’t change.👍
Thanks! That's what I'm going for.
I agree 💯
@@everything4tonce Changing all of your passwords is good. And you were/are using two-factor for your Apple ID, right? If so, they couldn't have logged in without your second factor. So you are probably OK. Just watch everything like a hawk for the next few days. Check in www.icloud.com/settings/ to make sure you recognize all of the devices there. Apple has a checklist of other things here: support.apple.com/en-us/HT204145
Great content love it
Excellent content. As a former Apple employee, retail, I can tell you we heard almost every variant of scam you could imagine - "They said my files were all locked!" ... "They told me to buy these gift cards immediately or else," and so many more. Sometimes it was hard to talk them out of their fears, but we did. Thanks for this.
Congrats on 200K subs - well deserved! 😀
Thank you, Gary. My FIL was taken for $12000.00 in the gift card scam. A caller spoofed Apple's old support phone line, which showed up on his iPhone screen as Apple. They said after he pays them in gift cards, they would take over his computer and recover his files (which didn't need to be done). Instead of calling me to verify, he did everything they asked. Sigh.
Great advices, Gary. Thank you very much.
Very useful and very informative video tutorial today! Great stuff to know! Thank you, Gary! 👏🏻❤️
Thanks Gary. I’ve been caught with the one, bought an old MacBook Pro, that was too old, and wouldn’t work. As a glutton for punishment, some years later I bought a iMac. Same thing! Thanks for this very informative video! Hopefully others won’t make the same expensive mistake that I’ve done. I now have a new one, from a real shop!
Very useful info, The browser alert message is something new for me
Great video you put together here. The scams are always arriving in the inbox 😡
Question: Do you have a video regarding how to manage more than 1 desktop? I realize lately I need to have a desktop for certain tasks and a second desktop for casual internet surfing. Thank you!
I have lots of videos for using Mission Control and Spaces and such. But it is really just a matter of getting used to it and figuring out what works best for you.
I was looking on eBay for non mac related things just now, and i happened to come across a listing for a 2013 MacBook Air (10 day auction with buy it now) with a starting bid of £0.99 (or buy it now for something like £199.99)
It is listed as coming with the charger, documentation, extension cable, and even the box (and all of these things are shown in the photos)
After having a very close look at the listing, and also checking the sellers feedback, i decided to place a bid on it, i won’t reveal what my bid is, but it is quite low, and i am expecting to get outbid, i will actually be surprised if i win the auction
Thank you for the excellent info.
Great as always 👍🏻👍🏻
Very helpful information for sharing with my family and others! Thank you, Gary!
Excellent advice--thanks
Very informative
Another scam that's not necessarily Apple-related, but related to some Apple-based videos on TH-cam, is one that can occur after leaving a comment on a tech review. What happens is that a scammer, who is posing as the actual content creator, will give a thumbs-up on your comment and then ask you to contact him/her on Telegram or some other social media site. It basically depends on what the creator uses.
Once you contact the scammer on the fake account, he will tell you that you've won a large number of new Apple products including merch (if any) that the creator has. They will then ask for your shipping address and then present you with "shipping options" that can vary between 100 and 300 dollars, including a "shipping company" out of India. And yes, they will ask you to pay for shipping via Apple or Ebay gift cards. Amazing.
They told me they were giving me the green iPhone 13 Pro, a new iPad Air, a Mac Studio, and the Studio Display. Woohoo!
These scammers will use any popular tech TH-camr channel for this scam. Beware!
Never heard of that one. I watch the comments here closely, and if I ever saw someone pretending to be me I'd be sure to report and block. Thanks.
This strategy worked perfectly on my phone
Before clicking on a link in an email just verify the link address in the status bar.
It is so easy to miss just one though. You can get it right 99/100 times, and that one time when you guard is down and you are in a rush...
Thanks bunches
Thank you ryan
I just got a weird popup invite on my iPad Home app. I declined but don't know how that even got through.
Great video.
I’m confused, I thought this would be about AppleCare. Not one word about AppleCare.
😂😂😂
I kinda wish Apple would allow us to plug in the serial number and they’ll tell us if the device is iCloud activation locked or not. That would really help with buying resale.
It’s not a cure all, for sure but it would help.
Good stuff to know
yep that happened to me buying game stuff and i called apple and it was a scamm so pissed but they spell it completley wrong fishing
We buy all our Macs from OWC. They are the only place I've found who will upgrade, like add more RAM. The Macs arrive like new with a 1-year warrantee.
With websites like online shops, banking, etc… i have bookmarks for those websites saved in my browser (which is Firefox since i don’t currently have a Mac, just a Windows PC, and one advantage of Firefox over Microsoft Edge is my bookmarks will synchronise between devices with completely different operating systems)
I am planning on getting a desktop Mac, although it will be a while (possibly over a year) before i will be able to get one
I have been considering getting a cheap second hand Mac from a reputable company
I had a look on the website of a company that sells second hand stuff just now, and the cheapest mac they have is a refurbished late 2014 Mac Mini, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, for £189.99
I am tempted, but i think i will wait until i can get a brand new desktop Mac directly from Apple (will most likely be a Mac Studio)
I might look into what refurbished MacBooks they have once i have gotten the desktop Mac, i might get a refurbished intel MacBook (probably a 13 inch)
Hi
My MacBook Air M1 ‘s space key is not working in ‘Finder search’. It is working in all other applications
Note: Space key is working in another user same computer
That's odd. Even after a restart? I'd start looking at what system extensions I have installed, and also through System Preferences, to see if you have any unusual settings. Though I can't think of anything offhand that would cause that.
How do i know im being scammed
Which scam here are you referring to?
I just got a text my appel acout did sumthink ilegal my account is going to close ring them , my mum was trying to be charged agen bank stop it we only top up my phone and that's with 3 not appeal what do I do ring them or ? Play
Sorry, I can't understand what you are saying. Call Apple Support directly (look on the Apple site) to get to the bottom of this.
Why does celebrities ask for them??
Not sure what you mean by that.
If you'r reading this I hope you're having a good day
About your last point, im thinking strongly of switching to pc in a year or 2. I think with most apple products I'm probably just paying for the logo.
Not sure what you mean. The last part is about buying used. As for "paying for the logo" -- what you are really paying for is macOS.
Good Luck!! , I will never go back to Windows
@@macmost I think that's a troll-comment. Looking for an argument. * eye roll * Keep doing great work, Gary.
@@macmost I don't think I'm getting the most out of my mac.
@@macmost thanks Gary! ;)
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