Find what I was used to track the stolen iPhone around the world
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According to Financial Times, they find themselves in the Huaqiangbei area in Shenzhen, China. For them, this is an ironic place, since Shenzhen is about a 30 -minute drive from the place where Foxconn initially produces so many of them.
Londoner Sam Amrani tracked his phone in this area, after two men on electric bicycles rose on both sides of him and grabbed his iPhone 15 Pro. Amrani used “Find mine to track the device” in several places in London, then a week later in Hong Kong, and then in Shenzhen.
It was reported that it turned out to be next to the Feiyang Times in this area, which is an office tower that includes enterprises selling used iPhone. These enterprises can be legal, selling shopping devices, but it is argued that it is also a home for firms involved in the stolen iPhone.
there are hundreds of small companies, apparently, do this in shopping centers around the Feiyang Times. But this is inside this tower, which traders buy and sell iPhones hundreds, according to reports, most of them, based in Hong Kong.
Some of those iPhone, like Amrani, are blocked by the pas-code, while others are not. It is not surprising that unlocked are easily sold.
But it is amazing that even blocked are valuable. An interview in Hong Kong, the seller of the iPhone, called Kevin Lee, said that “there are not many places that require [blocked iPhone] … There is demand in Shenzhen.”
Calling it “mass market,” Lee said that the blocked iPhone was probably stolen or torn to the United States. They are sold in Hong Kong, and then to other countries, including the Middle East.
blocked iPhone, are divided into details
when they arrived in Shenzhen, blocked iPhone, which were supposed to be blocked for being blocked. But even these blocked ones are valuable because they can be divided for details, and then spare parts are sold.
Li insists that this is the only value of the blocked iPhone, and it is obvious that customers cannot break into their pas-codes or block iCloud. But, as reported, the topics of social networks show that iPhone users were sometimes related to these stolen phones.
, as they say, such messages include thieves trying to extort money from them, threatening remote devices.
Neither Apple nor the Shenzhen government commented on the report on this stolen iPhone operation. The Hong Kong police said that they “will take appropriate actions, where it is necessary in accordance with the actual circumstances and in accordance with the law.”
London Amrani is far from the only one in the fact that the iPhone stole it. Separately, in 2023, the metropolitan police of London said that 157 smartphones were stolen every day for the previous 12 months.
This figure was reported as the London Mayor Sadik Khan ordered Apple, Google and others for a meeting to discuss theft of a smartphone. It was not reported what was the result of the meeting, but it turned out that the khan intended to demand that the manufacturers add to anti-chims and MDash; What they have already done for many years.
