Things the guys who stole my phone have texted me to try to get me to unlock it
gothamist.com
Don’t fall for these texts from scammers trying to crack into your stolen phone.

This is a very entertaining and educational article, giving insights into the methods used by thiefs to try and get access to your phone data.

I don’t like Apple but it’s great that their security is so good when it comes to this.

  • mx_smith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    561·
    6 months ago

    I’m confused, in the article he said it was a brick to whoever has his stolen phone. How did they get his phone number to send him text messages? Did they crack the passcode and needed the iCloud password?

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      60·
      6 months ago

      I think when you remotely wipe the phone you can make it show a message with your phone number, in case you’re actually a honest person that found the phone instead of a thief.

      • Dashi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        6 months ago

        In the response posts to the article someone said they got the icloud address via reset request which you can use in iMessage.

        Not an i phone person so i can’t verify but thought id pass that along.

    • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
      313·
      6 months ago

      The phone itself (by IMEI) is a brick. The sim and same phone number were assigned to a new phone and they texted that number

        • jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
          20·
          6 months ago

          Typically if you report the phone stolen to your provider they blacklist the IMEI which gets shared with other providers so the phone can no longer be used. I was unclear on this part but a new e-sim can be provided for the new phone, and the old sim banned or the old one transferred. Regardless, the old phone will still show the IMEI/sim/phone number, which is how they got that to text them

          • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            IMEI doesn’t mean shit, you can easily change it and no one really blacklists them. The iPhone is bricked on a hardware level through iCloud.

      • mx_smith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        72·
        6 months ago

        So they took the SIM card out and got the phone number from that? I guess I didn’t realize you could do that.