Wouldn't figure the person doing stickups for iPhones would be technically savvy enough to send phishing SMSs with associated site hosting. Presumably someone in the underworld is offering this "as a service?"
Some of the economics of the underworld are remarkably sophisticated. Everyone has a role and there are some parts of the supply chain that require different kinds of risk. Sometimes it’s risking cash, physical safety or personal-criminal repercussions.
This was just in the news in Philadelphia recently where a whole house was forced at gunpoint one by one to unlock and sign out of their iphones. https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/philadelphia/news/how-philadelph...
Id be in trouble since my work iPhone has some password manager generated random nonsense that i would never be able to remember. All i know is it uas the second single tick on the keyboard, not the first, and they look visually identical on ios.