Man, it hasn’t taken very long for these to start showing up! I just found a really nasty looking website that claims to be giving away free iPhone apps if you give them your phone number and a PIN. I found it via YouTube in what appeared to be a review of an iPhone game.

** NEVER ** (I can’t highlight that word enough) give out your phone number to a web site or any company unless you are certain that they are legitimate. Once someone has your phone number, they can do all kinds of unpleasant things with it including charging your cell provider (which in turn charges you) weekly/monthly fees.

The site I found claims that they will send you the app you want via a text message. This is not how Apple installs apps on the iPhone. I can only assume that the site is a scamming site and should be avoided at all costs.

So my advice to anyone looking at a website asking for the number of your phone, is to close out the site right away on move on to the next site on your list of sites to visit.

It’s really sad how scammer prey on people. It’s a good thing that the apps for the iPhone are not very expensive or sites like these might actually get quite a few people to bite. Happily, $9.99 is not that much money for some great gaming software that really looks fantastic one a mobile phone.

Anyway, be warned!