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Stolen iPhone (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My iPhone was just stolen and I only found out when I got home. I then marked it as lost in Find My and subsequently erased the phone remotely. I have a passcode on my iPhone but I'm not sure if I activated the lock in time in Find My. I tried calling my phone but it goes to voice mail. But in Findmy The time which I assume is the phone was last seen keeps updated every now and then ( 19 mins ago...etc)

I know the phone is a goner and I will need to get a new phone but does anyone know if I activated the lock in FindMy in time? Am worried about any information or content that is stored on my iPhone storage and not on iCloud. Identity theft would be a nightmare

Anything else I need to do? Help appreciated. Thank you

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

the lock is active whenever someone erased the device, so as long as the device is still in your account it will be a block of ewaste unless they guessed your password

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Whatever you don’t remove it from your Apple account

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Simple, i hope you have the stolen phones box, turn it and back bottom you will see the IMEI/MEID or IMEI2 thingy and take that number to your ISP and report it as lost with the IMEI number so they can blacklist it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The passcode will protect it. If it’s in lost mode with a passcode you’ll be fine. You already remotely erased it so it’s wiped of your info but still activation locked. Do not remove it from your account in find my, keep it in lost mode. If you have another apple device reset your apple id password for extra security.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Also you will probably get scammer scum that will "threaten" you just know that those messages are shit and don't respond. Sucks your phone got stolen. Low life's stealing phones :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

If you don’t erase the phone remotely can they do anything with it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'll likely soon be getting texts from "Apple Support" telling you that you need to remove the device to protect your data, and eventually texts threatening your life and your family's. YOU ARE NOT IN DANGER.

Just keep it linked to your ID and don't remove the icloud lock. To be safe, you can erase the device's data but keep the activation lock through Find My.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Question, how do they get the phone number? Is there a way to hide it, and maybe hide the mail too from these fkers.. in case the phone gets wiped remotely? I dont want to recieve weird sms just in case

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

By grabbing the phone when it's unlocked, or potentially through Siri on the lock screen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

So ill just disable siri on lockscreen and im gold? Is there any way for them to contact me on the icloud locked page?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

if you locked it with icloud thats pretty much all you can do

watch it and see if anything ever happens, when you remove it they win so dont remove it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Can’t wait for the photo of the dude’s hand in the car threatening something if he doesn’t remove the password

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Hopefully its locked to iCloud because you can't do anything with it no wonder some guys selling stolen iPhones for as low as 80$ for parts since its locked