UnlockiPhoneTool.com
Complaint 208140 Details

!! BEWARE !!
UnlockiPhoneTool.com is a scam!

They charged me $24.99 to unlock my iPhone-4. Prior to, and when I paid the fee using my credit card, I was made to understand that the unlocking of my iPhone-4 would be performed immediately.

Instead, after the credit card transaction went through, they sent me 2 emails. The 1st email give me a password to their "member" area of their "bogus" website given below: http://www.unlockiphonetool.com/

This was the message in the 1st email:
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Dear Umesh Heendeniya,

Thank You for purchasing iPhone 4 3GS 3G/iPod Touch/iPad Jailbreak and Unlock Software.

Now go to our Members Area and use the following information to login into your account:

Username: (Personal Information Removed)
Password: REDACTED (remember to change it once you login)

Any Questions?

Write to our support and we will be glad to help you.

Thank you for choosing us!

Best regards,
UnlockiPhoneTool.com team
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There was a 2nd email they sent me (from a company called "SWReg") with the billing information for the $24.99 and the receipt embedded into the email msg.

With the given password from the 1st email, I logged into the "http://www.unlockiphonetool.com" website.

Once I logged in and went to the member area hoping for instructions to unlock my iPhone (or to access relevant downloadable software to unlock my phone), there was a textbox where I had to enter my iPhone's 15-digit IMEI number. When I entered that #, it gave me a message instructing me to wait for 24 to 48 hours, that they would unlock my phone. Here was the exact message the "scam website" gave me:
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Thank you for submitting your IMEI number! It will take 24-48 hours to unlock your iDevice. You will be notified via email when it gets unlocked. We are grateful for your patience.
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These scam artists are blatantly breaking U.S. federal and state criminal law by committing "fraud" and "illegal wire transfer" among some of the violations of U.S. and state penal code.

I filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against these criminals.

Stay away from these fraudsters (white-collar criminals). But if you get taken for a scam (like I did), don't be silent because you're shy to admit that you were hoodwinked. Go out on the internet and post widely, as much information about these criminals as possible so other trusting, ordinary folks wont be defrauded by these scumbags.

And if you live in the USA, notify the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the US Attorney's office (in charge of your State), and the State Attorney General's office (for your State).

DON'T be Silent, and DON"T be ashamed (if you get suckered by these criminals). People all over the world get swindled everyday in all sorts of online and offline/business scams perpetrated by conniving criminals.

What is wrong is to keep silent and not alert others (via posting widely on various internet websites and blogs) to these criminal con-artists' tactics and false representations.

-- Umesh Heendeniya
-- (Personal Information Removed)
-- USA