Famed iOS device unlockers The Evad3rs are reportedly approaching the near-perfect stage on their iOS 7 jailbreak works, meaning a release date is very imminent for iPhone and iPad owners wanting to liberate and do more with their gadgets.

Yet for the impatient, the wait could prove too long so scouring the Internet for working jailbreaks is the next option. Sure, there will be loads of them, promising modifications that allow access to powerful apps apart from the one sanctioned by Apple.

The likelihood is, most of the exciting jailbreak offerings out there are downright fakes and scams.

And if the rogues listed by the iPhone Wiki should prove insufficient in weeding out the bad jailbreak elements, Gotta Be Mobile came up with the effective ways that would enable anyone to spot the real thing and avoid the rip-offs.

Too good to be true

Fake jailbreaks would naturally want to lure with fantastic claims and one way to do that is boast that the software is deployable and immediately usable on iPhones and iPads. Such advertising, GBM said, reeks of a scam in the making.

Jailbreak experts would attest that in freeing up any iOS devices, hooking them on a PC is part of the deal.

Should the approach misses the mark, scammers would then resort to another form of false advertising - filling their sites with feedbacks and reviews, all positive of course, that are hard to validate independently.

Asking for money

The legitimate jailbreaks are normally offered for free - that is the case with the Evad3rs or any other reputable teams working on iOS 7 alternatives. One sign to quickly run away from a source purportedly dangling a jailbreak is when money becomes part of the equation.

It could be in the form of donations or fees that supposedly are refundable, though processing the latter seems always the hard thing for scammers to do.

Jailbreaks laced with promos or surveys

Free products, free trials and even surveys are in the menu of these tricksters. They amount to nothing and the worst thing to happen, aside from wasting some cash, is for iOS 7 jailbreak seekers to see their security and privacy compromised.

In this age, giving up too much information on the Web is risky enough, more so when the recipient of the precious data is fraught with anomalies.

As to where the right iOS 7 jailbreak should be sourced from? GBM highly recommends following and monitoring the official online channels - Facebook or Twitter - of popular providers like Evad3rs. That is staying on the safe side and tasting a more exciting iPhone/iPad experience at the same time.