iPhone Scams Already Starting

The iPhones went on sale Friday, June 29th, and most retailers either sold out of them pretty quickly or were pretty close to sold out. From most reports that I read, the 8GB model for $599 flew off of the shelves pretty quickly and the places that still had any models had the 4GB model which sells for $499.

I had blogged previously about how long it would take for the first iBots to start popping up. Although this is a phish and does not turn your machine into a bot, iPhone scams are already out there and as long as availability remains scarce, expect similar scams to keep popping up. Whether or not iPhones continue to be a target for scammers and hackers over the long haul remains to be seen, but they are expected to only obtain about a 1% share of the mobile phone market and be popular mostly amongst the techies and Apple Fan Boys.