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I had my stolen in the US at a music festival and this happened to me. I got texts from “Apple Support” at first then it graduated to a threat of some hitman f
by treflop 2y ago
I had my stolen in the US at a music festival and this happened to me.
I got texts from “Apple Support” at first then it graduated to a threat of some hitman from Miami who was going to kill me if I didn’t release the phone.
Of course, the whole time I just imagined some small lanky dude sitting in a basement wrote these texts trying to act tough and I just laughed.
- cdchn 2y agoThey have a whole criminal ecosystem setup between the 'snatch a phone' and 'try to extort the previous owner of the phone.'
- aprilnya 2y agoA criminal ecosystem of small lanky dudes sitting in basements :)
- hnbad 2y agoIt's worth keeping in mind the risk-reward payoff though. It's an ecosystem, exactly. They're not going to murder your family to unlock your phone like in some kind of Hollywood action blockbuster. The catfishing/blackmail scam of getting you to send nudes to a stranger who then turns around and threatens to release them is a different matter as the added charge of "revenge porn" relative to the blackmail charge is not as significant as the added charge of "murder" in the phone theft scenario.
- cdchn 2y ago>They're not going to murder your family to unlock your phone like in some kind of Hollywood action blockbuster. Depends on how much untraceable, no-takeseys-backsies crypto you have access to on your phone.