Opisek ,

The article does not mention reporting it to the police. I get that 99.99% of the time, nothing will come of it, but that's something I would immediately do. Maybe I just don't get the rich aspect of going out and buying the newest latest model right away and forgetting about the stolen phone, even if it is theoretically still in the reach of police forces.

TachyonTele ,

What are the police going to do about your phone?

"Yup. It sure is gone now. Have a nice day."

glitch1985 ,

"it's a civil issue"

gravitas_deficiency ,

Man, the last threat the author received was absolutely BEGGING for the navy seal copypasta lololol

boyi ,

the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.

It is not about accessing the data but to disassociate the current user from the phone so that the thief can reset the phone or/and it's components for new users.

morrowind ,
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Honestly I'm scared of when these people figure out they can use llms to make their texts look like less obvious scams

Dipbeneaththelasers ,

Often scammers don't want to make it less obvious. If it's obvious and the mark falls for it, it's a good indicator they're on the hook and will fall for more. It's to filter out the less gullible so the scammer doesn't waste their time. Probably not the case with this situation specifically, but it holds true in general with scams.

brbposting ,

Probably not the case with this situation specifically

Yeah :( High-value item already in hand, never a need to guide somebody which store to buy the giftcard at or what to say to the bank teller…

MeekerThanBeaker ,

True. But also true is that a majority of scammers are simply not smart and/or English is not their native language. A phishing email/text that might look good to them, can look really bad to others.

But still, people still fall for the obvious phishing attacks. AI is going to make the phishing appear more legit.

FlihpFlorp ,

On a similar note, a reason why you shouldn’t respond to spam/scam texts because it basically verifies you as an active phone number. Why waste man/bot power texting numbers that may or may not exist when a majority of your texts will at least be seen by a human which will probably boost their chance

It’s why I tell my friends not to respond even tho some of their responses are really funny

Some smarter ones I see usually range between 2-7 lines of text usually written as a time sensitive question that will affect the totally real persons social or work like

One of my favorite ones was about 5 lines of text that was posed as a date

It was like “Hey Kayla it’s Mike, some short sob story about dating life, hope our first date goes well, then nonsense about dating with an address thrown in

However after the 5 lines it was in Arabic or some similar flowy characters and when I translated it continued “mikes” story about where he was from and how oh so sad his life was

Tldr totally fishing for a pity “sorry wrong number” to see if my phone number would be seen by human

Nurse_Robot ,

As much as I love my android phone, I have to admit Apple takes privacy and security much more seriously.

themoonisacheese ,
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How so? A Samsung or pixel with default settings would also behave that way, possibly even more securely because it wouldn't show the thieves your number.

Monument ,

iPhones don’t do that on their own.

She said she activated lost mode, so it’s possible/likely she made her contact info available. Asking Siri who the phone belongs to will also give up contact info, but you can change that remotely from the find my phone app.

I think - being a writer - she sort of set herself up for the interaction so she would have material. No judgment, though. It was an interesting read.

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