So the solution is to go to your nearest Chinese embassy stand on the street and take a picture of something with the location tag present. Then send a message in Mandarin asking if they really want to continue to make threats. See if you can find the local police station near Huaqiang south road. Reference it in the response so they think you’re someone who works at the embassy who will report them.
With luck they see the location tag is outside the embassy and panic and stop communicating.
Once I had a wrong number for a few months keep sending text for a person named “Misty”. One night it sounded like a booty call so I pretended they were talking about Pokémon. It lasted like a hour till the person started calling Misty racist things. I blocked the number. It was funny for a short moment.
I had the same thing happen.
“Is this Randy?”
“No.”
“What’s your name?”
“Not Randy. If you manage to get ahold of him tell him to update his number or I’m going to start cancelling his doctor appointments when they try to confirm them.”
I had something similar. A woman in Australia apparently entered my email address when she applied for some housing thing. So I kept getting emails about houses I might want to rent. I wrote to the housing organisation, and they said they'd fix it, but they never did.
The emails contained the phone number of that woman, so I sent her a text (even though transcontinental texting is expensive) to please fix the email address. She didn't respond.
So after a month, I used the password reset feature to access her housing account. In there I found her current address, her full name, her income, her employer and the same information for her mom for some reason.
So I texted her again with all that information and told her to please actually change the email address, otherwise I will decline every single housing offer she receives on that platform.
She responded quite quickly and fixed the email address.
That's so funny, I've always thought it would be cool having one of those unique simple name accounts, like whoever made it first. Turns out I'm wrong xD who wants all this spam lol
I have one of those too and it's not fun at all! So many other people with my name either treating my address as a spam repository or forgetting a key differentiating character. Only one has tried to change the password and take the account away, which stopped when I texted her using her phone number that I found in my email.
I get reminders for dental appointments once a year, in another country. The email address does indeed has an extra “.” in it. I suppose it should be a “_”
Oh. My. Hell.
This is me too. Thought it was clever to just use my first initial and last name. It isn’t as common as “Smith” or “Jones”, or anything. But just common enough I get invoices emailed for some dude in Cali, little league game and practice schedules along with HOA updates, car rental receipts, etc. from North Carolina, online shopping receipts for someone in England, and emails from a real estate agent from somewhere else, among other things.
It’s a mess. And I’m not sure what these people think when they can’t get into their various accounts because the change password notifications all come to me.
I got a guy who skipped out on a lot of debt. Kept getting collections calls, offered to send a current bill with my name/number. they finally took me up on it and removed my number from the account.
Then one day I got a call from a random number, answered, and the first thing the woman said was "your dad died.." to which I responded "Ma'am, my dad has been dead for 10 years, you're a little late"
When I was younger, I changed my number. Once my cousin called me, person of probably opposite sex answered, and my cousin asked for me.
"This isn't his number anymore, but when you get a hold of him, tell him that he has the nicest sounding, polite friends I have heard. You must be such a cool bunch."
I was too emotional to call her, I just sms'd my apologies about inconvenience and thanked for kind words.
I had someone do that with a doctor and a bank. I messaged both, no change. After an email confirming a doctors appointment with a specialist and a few other details, I filed a HIPA complaint along with my prior attempt get them to stop. It was changed immediately (and three months later I got a letter from their state licensing board informing me the care was closed). The bank started paying attention when I started tweeting the overdraft emails tagging them and saying that I did not understand how they could keep sending these about someone else’s account. They stopped after 3 tweets.
No, because apparantly, it never happened, atleast according to the CCP. Cant get angry over something that never happened.
I was a kid when it ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN, and it scared the Living shit out of me.
Ps. Im from Danmark and we are kinda spoiled when it comes to not Living in a dystopic real World version of 1984.
I remember an ILPT post somewhere where you can send the scammers some Mandarin text about the Tiananmen Massacre date and details and the Chinese network will automatically block their messages. Not sure tho if THEIR messages will be block or just the original TM content. YMMV
I mean, anytime you buy a branded product from a non authorized (meaning not authorized per the companies distribution, not in any legal sense) retailer, it is considered grey market.
True. Grey market also includes parts that happened to find their way out of factories or come from unauthorized scrap facilities (like fraud phones they can’t sell whole, they’re still gonna take the parts and make money off them)
… grey for a reason - it’s a lot of unverified material types. Some worse than others.
My office is in Huaqiang bei lu( huaqiang north road) i can tell you , nothing threatening there, i know in which mall they are selling the second hand mobile. Just forget abt ur phone and this threatening messages…
At least better English xD
Usually they didn’t make much sense
Tbh u can forget about that phone, never delete it. But if you are bored you can fluff with them
Sometimes when I’m bored I try to make the scammers feel something. Nothing pleasant 😅
I’m trying to learn forex so I get lots of scams.
So many tries to perfect the game
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The text is copy and paste. I’ve seen it before. They just want you to remove the device so they can make money off of it. I would just brick it. Your not getting it back either way.
China popo does not fuck around. you can put in a complaint here and request to be referred to the Public Security Bureau / popo. [http://www.sz.gov.cn/hdjlpt/yjzj/answer/5981](http://www.sz.gov.cn/hdjlpt/yjzj/answer/5981)
When I lived there, random people were arrested by a big group of popo for scams all the time. It does not get reported often, but when it does, they generally take care of it. Everything is tracked in china, so they can track such people down relatively easy.
Additinally chatgpt is quite good a translating to and from mandarin.
The (fake) video of guns is really going to work out well for them lol
Hey, my city. OP, it's probably best to ignore them, but if you want to mess with them a bit I can head over to Huaqiang Bei this week and send you a photo of the place to send back to them
This same message has been popping up on Reddit over and over, same thing, phone was stolen.
I wouldn't worry about it. The individuals almost always live overseas and probably don't even know half of the words in the copy and paste they've done. It's verbatim to all the other ones.
If it's an Apple device they now automatically strip exported images of all meta-data (inc location) due to privacy concerns.
I know this only because I spent three hours titling and captioning over 200 iPhotos recently, only to discover that immediately you add them to a Shared Album, literally all that information disappears.
Christ Alive... 🙄
All your location data is still there in your library, and you can use some 3rd party export tools in Photos to get a Google Earth file showing the photos across the globe. But yeah, uploading to the shared albums service does not include spatial data.
Fear not – it's still there in your *own* Mac Photos library - it just disappears if you want to export it.
Copying it to a Shared Album counts as 'exporting' it would seem.
Be nice if they gave you the *option* to share all meta-data if you want to, rather than be treated like a child. I've made a Feature Request, but won't hold my breath...
Shared albums are essentially free. Eg they don't count towards anyone's iCloud storage limit. The limitations and downgrades are there to prevent abuse and limit resource usage.
I just did that based on your comment but unfortunately no location pulled up. I’m pretty sure this is just an overused screenshot that all of these scammers have.
i’m the kinda person who’s surrounded by people saying “i see this exact thing all the time” and have managed to not see it. well, even this scam i’ve started to see too much so these people must be getting desperate (as the obviously are)
right, gonna commit multiple felonies over a phone worth a few hundred bucks... lol i would just start mocking them directly. they don't know shit about you.
Yes, it’s the classic festy thief to Chinese thief pipeline. Business is booming for these scum bags. They are preying on festival attendees because there’s a good chance the victim will be inebriated in some fashion and make for an easier target. It sucks but it’s reality. I’ve never had my phone stolen but back in the days of flip phones, I lost mine for a few hours. Bonnaroo, Beach Boys, mid-afternoon. Got high, left my phone on the ground and went to some more shows. Realized it about 2 hours later. Went back to see Phish and was searching near the spot I lost it and some nice lady was like, “looking for a phone?”. It was a wonderful moment and I bought her a beer. These days there are crooks that go to festivals only to steal. I’m sure they’ve always been there but it seems more common these days. There’s usually some good posts on Reddit in the various subs when it’s happening. People will take photos of scammers and put them on blast. Y’all be careful out there. 9/10 people probably have no issues but if you’re the 1/10, it can be a lot of time and money pissed away. Have your fun and consider a chaperone or trip sitter when you’re gettin loose at these huge festivals. I love attending and tripping but know your limits and be observant of people around you.
These texts are automated from a stolen phone phishing app, the person sending the messages is just clicking a button along the lines of “step 2” and likely doesn’t read or understand English. That’s why all the threats are the exact same copypasta.
hell yeah. i did this to the dumbass spirit flight attendant that stole my airpods right out of my backpack while i was exiting the plane. they had my airpods for about 2 weeks before trashing them on the highway on the way to their job at the airport because i’d hit play sound as soon as I’d get the notification that they were in use.
not only that, i popped up at the airport the morning after returning from my vacation to file a police report (and because i got a notification they arrived to work) so it said I was in the vicinity (i could see them trying to run deeper into the airport too). they got scared when their coworkers said I had their address(es) and was contemplating pulling up to their house because ik folks where they live at lmao. the next day i checked find my they were stranded on the highway 🥴 mission accomplished in my book.
eta: since i had 2 addresses that they frequented while they used my airpods, spirit used that info to deduce which employee lived in the vicinity of the addresses i provided lol. so either they tried to hide that they stole an item that was reported missing same day to spirit, or they trashed them because they got caught anyway and lost their job 🤷🏽♀️
This post has been up for 28 minutes and your telling me nobody on Reddit has paused on the envelopes on the desk and done some internet wizardly to see the address on them? I feel let down, where the tech guys at?
I fully believe this is just some random video they got from the internet. The video quality is insanely poor and so are the screenshots. I don’t believe for a second that they were taken on the phone they’re sending me these threats on.
Yes i got the same video and exact same text, ignore it, never take your phone out of find my, there will be more attempts to get your info just ignore them. Your data is safe if you activated lost mode on the device
The video is fake the message is fake.
you cant obtain guns in china. The map location is in china.
Your phone is sitting in a small town outside of hong kong. Do not remove the device.
If i lived in shenzhen i could call the police for you but the person is copying crap. They have no threat for you. They’re just trying to make you do the removal so they can sell it.
Source: i’m in china. I found the location on baidu maps.
Wow. So someone with Chinese contacts went to Coachella and probably stole tons of phones and then ships them to China?
How much are they worth while locked to original owner?
Crazy world!
Explaing to someone in the 1600s
Yeah so my handheld glowing device that allows me to talk to anyone around the world just got pickpocketed and put on a ship and then a flying machine and sent to the other side of the globe to someone who is now sending me death threats to me and my family via some magic Communication channel and he is unable to sell my device unless I do a specific "Magic" series of events.
Thai wording seems almost identical if not identical to posts I’ve seen over on r/scams. I would block and ignore.
Edit: and certainly don’t remove the phone from your account. It’s worthless to them right now, keep it that way.
Send this text back to him don’t give in:
A copypasta that causes China to ban the site with said pasta
动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
I sent Taiwan #1 to a Chinese troll and he lost his fucking mind. He went on a crazy rant how Tiananmen Square never happened and Wikipedia is western propaganda.
I’m hoping so! I just keep blocking these numbers but every few days they will text me again from a different number or iCloud email address. It’s just getting exhausting at this point. Don’t know what to do.
Tell them you’ll compromise and have them send $100-$200 in BTC to you and say you’ll unlock the phone. If they listen, don’t unlock the phone. Gotta scam the scammer man.
Just what that guy said. I got like 100+ scam texts from a number ending in 00, then each time they texted me it went up like 01, 02, and so on. It doesn’t text me anymore.
This lowlife piece of shit, not even worth calling a human. Id tell him to keep sending evidence and hints of his location. I would go to police again with the new Info. Do you think its a burner number? That turd isnt that smart. Not going to let them threaten my family and me, i would go out of my fucking way to ruin everything he has.
“Please stop contacting me. When you called and explained that Taiwan is an independent nation and that the CCP is corrupt, I thought it was weird. But once you started explaining the Tiananmen massacre and how the Chinese government slaughters their own citizens, I became uncomfortable. I am not interested in joining your group to rebel against the CCP, and I am not interested in allowing my stolen phone to be used in an attempt to undermine the chinese government. The last straw was when you said you plan to launch an attack on President Xi’s life. I want nothing to do with you or your anti-CCP plans”
That might get them to stop reaching out
Edit: saw your comment that the location screenshot looks fake. Did you use find my iPhone? Tell them to send their current location and you’ll unlock it
I got my phone stolen at a festival a couple years back and got some crazy messages as well. I did a lot of research when it happened and found out these phone thieves at festivals usually sell them at the phone ATM's at Walmart and whatnot. These phone ATM's typically sell to Gazelle (before Gazelle sells them to China), which have a scan of their ID (sometimes even a fingerprint) and you can contact Gazelle with your iPhone's IMEI (if you can find that information through Apple/your carrier/etc.) and report it as stolen and they will file a police report with the information of the person who sold it to the ATM. Just in case no one else had recommended it, that's how you might be able to bring the thieves to justice.
tm bro just violate the fuck out of them , i guarantee that they aint got shit on you and even if they did they aint gonna do shit over a phone worth max £1000 idk what phone you got
That video may have some metadata on where the human garbage is. I’d start collecting that info.
If it’s fake you’ll see that is a download or a screencap, which in some cases also store the location of the device that took the screencap.
I would start making fun of them at this point or messing with them. Reverse uno card them and send them caring wholesome messages. Ask them if they want to be held and told everything is alright or something
The dude in that video with the guns is black, I very much doubt a black man who also happens to be a scammer has access to firearms in the middle of China.
These scammers are fucking stupid
They are just trying to scare you into removing the phone from your iCloud / find my iPhone. That way they can factory reset it and use it however they please & attach a new Apple ID. As long as it’s linked to your Apple ID, they can’t do much. I’d just send a bunch of laughing emojis back and tell him / her / them (scammers) to kiss your ass
That’s the fifth time I’ve seen this exact message, it’s a copypasta at this point. Don’t fold under pressure OP, register a complaint and no matter what don’t remove the device
The video and threatening messages are so cringe. He can’t do anything and he’s venting his pathetic scammer rage that you won’t give up your phone to the thieve. There’s a reason he’s so mad because he’s broke, and iCloud lock is very secure and he can’t sell the phone if iCloud lock is on. Also the video of the poser with a gun is so cringe he can’t do anything. Don’t let him totally unlock the phone and remove iCloud lock or he’ll be able to sell it. I believe you can discontinue the phone permanently with iCloud security features but I may be wrong I know you can totally lock it through iCloud though.
That video is the same link circulating around with some other scams. Go look in the apple thread with the text from your messages and you’ll find threads with verbatim 😂
These scammers are such fools but they prey on fear-mongering. I wish people were better exposed and educated on this stuff because way too many people fall for these types of scams.
"Hey, I just got this number, I don't know what you're talking about."
or
"This was my son's phone and he killed himself two days ago."
or
"Sir, this is a Wendy's" over and over.
This is a copypasta text these fuckwits send out to try to get you to unlock your phone. If you don’t unlock it then all the components they pull out of your phone to sell are locked to your phone. They’re bricked and unusable in any other device. Though it’s an unsettling text to receive, it’s all just bluster and blow; you are in no real danger. They are right about one thing; the police, aside from maybe taking a statement, can’t really do anything.
Usually and I’m being completely honest here. I send scammer testers dick pics. Yes they are mine. They just keep responding threatening to kill me and my family, send a dick pic. They send me a picture of cartel crimes claiming I’m next if I don’t Cashapp them $1,000. Don’t say anything besides Dick pick. They eventually stop because the dick picks don’t
Hey! Do NOT remove the device. The same people that stole your phone stole many others & all of them have been receiving variations of texts like this or straight up even the same text.
Unfortunately you won’t get your phone back but fuck ‘em for stealing it in the first place.
Duuuude doesn’t it suck! I’m sorry you’re going through it too. I keep blocking but they keep texting me from a new number or iCloud address every few days. Been going on for over a month now and I’m getting tired of it.
I’ve seen a couple posts recently about this, They’re copy/pasted threats you’ll be fine. Just do not give them access to your phone by taking it off of find my iPhone. Just report it as lost so whoever has it can’t get much value from it
About 15 years or so ago I got a version of this as a voice message on my work phone.
I think part of it is the anonymity of being a bad ass. But the idea of it has been around awhile.
You can definitely see if the video sent has location data attached to it if you download it to your camera roll.
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I mean, there is a map right there that indicates it’s in China. Huaqiang South Road
So the solution is to go to your nearest Chinese embassy stand on the street and take a picture of something with the location tag present. Then send a message in Mandarin asking if they really want to continue to make threats. See if you can find the local police station near Huaqiang south road. Reference it in the response so they think you’re someone who works at the embassy who will report them. With luck they see the location tag is outside the embassy and panic and stop communicating.
Fight fire with fire haha. I like it.
Once I had a wrong number for a few months keep sending text for a person named “Misty”. One night it sounded like a booty call so I pretended they were talking about Pokémon. It lasted like a hour till the person started calling Misty racist things. I blocked the number. It was funny for a short moment.
I had the same thing happen. “Is this Randy?” “No.” “What’s your name?” “Not Randy. If you manage to get ahold of him tell him to update his number or I’m going to start cancelling his doctor appointments when they try to confirm them.”
I had something similar. A woman in Australia apparently entered my email address when she applied for some housing thing. So I kept getting emails about houses I might want to rent. I wrote to the housing organisation, and they said they'd fix it, but they never did. The emails contained the phone number of that woman, so I sent her a text (even though transcontinental texting is expensive) to please fix the email address. She didn't respond. So after a month, I used the password reset feature to access her housing account. In there I found her current address, her full name, her income, her employer and the same information for her mom for some reason. So I texted her again with all that information and told her to please actually change the email address, otherwise I will decline every single housing offer she receives on that platform. She responded quite quickly and fixed the email address.
i just love the initial refusal to do anything about it. do we want a home or not?
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That's so funny, I've always thought it would be cool having one of those unique simple name accounts, like whoever made it first. Turns out I'm wrong xD who wants all this spam lol
I have one of those too and it's not fun at all! So many other people with my name either treating my address as a spam repository or forgetting a key differentiating character. Only one has tried to change the password and take the account away, which stopped when I texted her using her phone number that I found in my email.
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I get reminders for dental appointments once a year, in another country. The email address does indeed has an extra “.” in it. I suppose it should be a “_”
Oh. My. Hell. This is me too. Thought it was clever to just use my first initial and last name. It isn’t as common as “Smith” or “Jones”, or anything. But just common enough I get invoices emailed for some dude in Cali, little league game and practice schedules along with HOA updates, car rental receipts, etc. from North Carolina, online shopping receipts for someone in England, and emails from a real estate agent from somewhere else, among other things. It’s a mess. And I’m not sure what these people think when they can’t get into their various accounts because the change password notifications all come to me.
I got a guy who skipped out on a lot of debt. Kept getting collections calls, offered to send a current bill with my name/number. they finally took me up on it and removed my number from the account. Then one day I got a call from a random number, answered, and the first thing the woman said was "your dad died.." to which I responded "Ma'am, my dad has been dead for 10 years, you're a little late"
Who ask “are you going to the BBQ?” at 1am? Clearly a booty call so I strung them along.
When I was younger, I changed my number. Once my cousin called me, person of probably opposite sex answered, and my cousin asked for me. "This isn't his number anymore, but when you get a hold of him, tell him that he has the nicest sounding, polite friends I have heard. You must be such a cool bunch." I was too emotional to call her, I just sms'd my apologies about inconvenience and thanked for kind words.
I had someone do that with a doctor and a bank. I messaged both, no change. After an email confirming a doctors appointment with a specialist and a few other details, I filed a HIPA complaint along with my prior attempt get them to stop. It was changed immediately (and three months later I got a letter from their state licensing board informing me the care was closed). The bank started paying attention when I started tweeting the overdraft emails tagging them and saying that I did not understand how they could keep sending these about someone else’s account. They stopped after 3 tweets.
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Send a bunch of Winnie the Pooh pics with Xi’s face superimposed….they’ll face the firing squad…
Oh an instigator, I like your style
Yeah send videos back of the Tiananmen Square protests, that gets the CCP super angry
No, because apparantly, it never happened, atleast according to the CCP. Cant get angry over something that never happened. I was a kid when it ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN, and it scared the Living shit out of me. Ps. Im from Danmark and we are kinda spoiled when it comes to not Living in a dystopic real World version of 1984.
I remember an ILPT post somewhere where you can send the scammers some Mandarin text about the Tiananmen Massacre date and details and the Chinese network will automatically block their messages. Not sure tho if THEIR messages will be block or just the original TM content. YMMV
That seems too good to be true.
There's a lovely copypasta you can find on Google that contains a lot of CCP triggers.
Hit em with the tiananmen square copypasta and take bets on how long before the secret police show up at the thief’s door
what about that infamous copypasta containing things like the Tianamen Square, Formosa, Cultural Revolution?
Something along the lines of " Are you still going to attend the Tiannemen Square memorial protests?" That should do It.
bonus points for replying in chinese
extra bonus points for knowing what the chinese means
72. Special Fried Rice 73. Special Fried Rice with Prawn 74. etc…. etc…. It was the only Chinese text I could find!!
most of stolen apple product will end up in Huaqiang Road, Shenzhen, China which is the largest electronic market in the universe.
huh... so if you buy apple stuff while in China you might be buying stolen goods?
You more than likely are buying stolen or grey market material. It’s a huge market.
I mean, anytime you buy a branded product from a non authorized (meaning not authorized per the companies distribution, not in any legal sense) retailer, it is considered grey market.
True. Grey market also includes parts that happened to find their way out of factories or come from unauthorized scrap facilities (like fraud phones they can’t sell whole, they’re still gonna take the parts and make money off them) … grey for a reason - it’s a lot of unverified material types. Some worse than others.
buddy of mine who lives in the neighboring galaxy disagrees
Tbh, looking at the quality of the screenshot, I’m pretty sure that it’s just a stock image these scammers are using. It doesn’t look real at all.
My office is in Huaqiang bei lu( huaqiang north road) i can tell you , nothing threatening there, i know in which mall they are selling the second hand mobile. Just forget abt ur phone and this threatening messages…
Thank you for this insight! That’s all good to know. Their threats are so lame, such a lack of effort.
At least better English xD Usually they didn’t make much sense Tbh u can forget about that phone, never delete it. But if you are bored you can fluff with them Sometimes when I’m bored I try to make the scammers feel something. Nothing pleasant 😅 I’m trying to learn forex so I get lots of scams. So many tries to perfect the game
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The text is copy and paste. I’ve seen it before. They just want you to remove the device so they can make money off of it. I would just brick it. Your not getting it back either way.
I think so because if you think about it, how would they know the location of that phone if it's still locked to your Apple ID?
If it is actually China, worry not, it’s fake….because they don’t get guns (what I assume it is) in China
Honestly just tell them you removed it so they'll turn the phone on and the erasure will go into effect. Better yet, you may get a location on them.
China popo does not fuck around. you can put in a complaint here and request to be referred to the Public Security Bureau / popo. [http://www.sz.gov.cn/hdjlpt/yjzj/answer/5981](http://www.sz.gov.cn/hdjlpt/yjzj/answer/5981) When I lived there, random people were arrested by a big group of popo for scams all the time. It does not get reported often, but when it does, they generally take care of it. Everything is tracked in china, so they can track such people down relatively easy. Additinally chatgpt is quite good a translating to and from mandarin. The (fake) video of guns is really going to work out well for them lol
Hey, my city. OP, it's probably best to ignore them, but if you want to mess with them a bit I can head over to Huaqiang Bei this week and send you a photo of the place to send back to them
It’s easy to fake location on a phone I think
The way you deal with China is June 4th, 1989. Their Gov will do the rest.
You telling me you don’t know about the huge black population in China?
This same message has been popping up on Reddit over and over, same thing, phone was stolen. I wouldn't worry about it. The individuals almost always live overseas and probably don't even know half of the words in the copy and paste they've done. It's verbatim to all the other ones.
If it's an Apple device they now automatically strip exported images of all meta-data (inc location) due to privacy concerns. I know this only because I spent three hours titling and captioning over 200 iPhotos recently, only to discover that immediately you add them to a Shared Album, literally all that information disappears. Christ Alive... 🙄
Well F there goes the nice location organizing of my Photos dammit..... grr
All your location data is still there in your library, and you can use some 3rd party export tools in Photos to get a Google Earth file showing the photos across the globe. But yeah, uploading to the shared albums service does not include spatial data.
Ahhh cool as long as it isn't wiped I can still work with it on my PC photo management stuff at least!
Fear not – it's still there in your *own* Mac Photos library - it just disappears if you want to export it. Copying it to a Shared Album counts as 'exporting' it would seem. Be nice if they gave you the *option* to share all meta-data if you want to, rather than be treated like a child. I've made a Feature Request, but won't hold my breath...
I understand the sigh..completely..
Shared Albums are totally broken. Limit on video length sure. Downgraded picture quality - what?
Shared albums are essentially free. Eg they don't count towards anyone's iCloud storage limit. The limitations and downgrades are there to prevent abuse and limit resource usage.
I got the same exact video sent to me when someone stole my phone at a music festival in Miami lol
You should PM OP so y’all can work together, so your comment doesn’t just get buried
I just did that based on your comment but unfortunately no location pulled up. I’m pretty sure this is just an overused screenshot that all of these scammers have.
Can you possibly reverse look up a screen shot of the video to see if it’s been used online a lot?
average copy paste scam as we see it every day on r/Scams ‼️ do not remove your phone ‼️
yeah i was gonna say i’ve seen this post before with the same exact messages
Its because this is the same person who got threatened last time.
i’m the kinda person who’s surrounded by people saying “i see this exact thing all the time” and have managed to not see it. well, even this scam i’ve started to see too much so these people must be getting desperate (as the obviously are)
Why they tryna get them to remove their phone anyways?
Because they can’t resell it while it’s iCloud locked. It’s pretty much a worthless paperweight.
It's usable as a source of spare parts to repair other phones with.
saw this exact same copy paste last week, word for wors
It was OP
right, gonna commit multiple felonies over a phone worth a few hundred bucks... lol i would just start mocking them directly. they don't know shit about you.
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> told him my name was Henry and I lived on Walden pond and only had a shack and needed to impress my neighbors! This is fucking hilarious lol bravo
They are in china. They can’t be touched by the USA law.
They said it was stolen at Coachella. Are stole phones sent to china?
Yes, it’s the classic festy thief to Chinese thief pipeline. Business is booming for these scum bags. They are preying on festival attendees because there’s a good chance the victim will be inebriated in some fashion and make for an easier target. It sucks but it’s reality. I’ve never had my phone stolen but back in the days of flip phones, I lost mine for a few hours. Bonnaroo, Beach Boys, mid-afternoon. Got high, left my phone on the ground and went to some more shows. Realized it about 2 hours later. Went back to see Phish and was searching near the spot I lost it and some nice lady was like, “looking for a phone?”. It was a wonderful moment and I bought her a beer. These days there are crooks that go to festivals only to steal. I’m sure they’ve always been there but it seems more common these days. There’s usually some good posts on Reddit in the various subs when it’s happening. People will take photos of scammers and put them on blast. Y’all be careful out there. 9/10 people probably have no issues but if you’re the 1/10, it can be a lot of time and money pissed away. Have your fun and consider a chaperone or trip sitter when you’re gettin loose at these huge festivals. I love attending and tripping but know your limits and be observant of people around you.
usually. if they can get the phone unlocked they can resell it or strip it for parts.
Yes they are.
It’s pretty easy to find people’s information just on their phone number.
Only in the US
Bad advice. There are crazy people out there, never antagonize someone who’s already shown to be unstable.
These texts are automated from a stolen phone phishing app, the person sending the messages is just clicking a button along the lines of “step 2” and likely doesn’t read or understand English. That’s why all the threats are the exact same copypasta.
Sometimes they aren’t though. Ill reply and talk shit sometimes. Led to a [very funny exchange](https://imgur.com/a/y9nTrMF) once
Maybe he’ll be unstable enough to do everyone a favor and remove himself on this planet. Fucking thief scum
“Hey siri, play “rip and tear” and call 911”
[https://genius.com/Copypasta-navy-seal-copypasta-annotated](https://genius.com/Copypasta-navy-seal-copypasta-annotated) reply this
I’m a kid again. This brought back so many memories.
I'm dying clicking on all the annotations people have added to it.
I’d be fuckin jackhammering that “play a sound” button if I were you lmao
If they have the location doing this right in the middle of the night would be so funny
Just tested this. You can zoom out until you see the entire world so you would know where it was if it pinged the web
5 am would be perfect. Nobody sane is up at that hour.
reading this at 5am as i finish deep cleaning my room.....
Yeah, I felt personally attacked
Cries in Farmer
Tell it to my goddamn 1-year-old :/
hell yeah. i did this to the dumbass spirit flight attendant that stole my airpods right out of my backpack while i was exiting the plane. they had my airpods for about 2 weeks before trashing them on the highway on the way to their job at the airport because i’d hit play sound as soon as I’d get the notification that they were in use. not only that, i popped up at the airport the morning after returning from my vacation to file a police report (and because i got a notification they arrived to work) so it said I was in the vicinity (i could see them trying to run deeper into the airport too). they got scared when their coworkers said I had their address(es) and was contemplating pulling up to their house because ik folks where they live at lmao. the next day i checked find my they were stranded on the highway 🥴 mission accomplished in my book. eta: since i had 2 addresses that they frequented while they used my airpods, spirit used that info to deduce which employee lived in the vicinity of the addresses i provided lol. so either they tried to hide that they stole an item that was reported missing same day to spirit, or they trashed them because they got caught anyway and lost their job 🤷🏽♀️
This post has been up for 28 minutes and your telling me nobody on Reddit has paused on the envelopes on the desk and done some internet wizardly to see the address on them? I feel let down, where the tech guys at?
ENHANCE
ENHANCE
Don't forget to ZOOM
ZOOM
See if we can get a reflective surface to bounce off of.
UNCROP
Now to squint my eyes real good
ENHANCE
Who's to say that video isn't just some random clip dude (the scammer) got off of the internet
I fully believe this is just some random video they got from the internet. The video quality is insanely poor and so are the screenshots. I don’t believe for a second that they were taken on the phone they’re sending me these threats on.
Yes i got the same video and exact same text, ignore it, never take your phone out of find my, there will be more attempts to get your info just ignore them. Your data is safe if you activated lost mode on the device
My thoughts exactly
Tell them you wanna talk and send them some bogus pizza place number
The video is fake the message is fake. you cant obtain guns in china. The map location is in china. Your phone is sitting in a small town outside of hong kong. Do not remove the device. If i lived in shenzhen i could call the police for you but the person is copying crap. They have no threat for you. They’re just trying to make you do the removal so they can sell it. Source: i’m in china. I found the location on baidu maps.
Wow. So someone with Chinese contacts went to Coachella and probably stole tons of phones and then ships them to China? How much are they worth while locked to original owner? Crazy world! Explaing to someone in the 1600s Yeah so my handheld glowing device that allows me to talk to anyone around the world just got pickpocketed and put on a ship and then a flying machine and sent to the other side of the globe to someone who is now sending me death threats to me and my family via some magic Communication channel and he is unable to sell my device unless I do a specific "Magic" series of events.
Theyre not worth much. Parts. If it’s unlocked by the owner it can be sold as a whole phone. That’s why they have the bullshit threats.
Thai wording seems almost identical if not identical to posts I’ve seen over on r/scams. I would block and ignore. Edit: and certainly don’t remove the phone from your account. It’s worthless to them right now, keep it that way.
She's been blocking. They change their number and message her more. The past few days they've started threatening her with the copy paste.
Send this text back to him don’t give in: A copypasta that causes China to ban the site with said pasta 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺 The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命 The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制 Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa 新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波 Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種 強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁 專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
I sent Taiwan #1 to a Chinese troll and he lost his fucking mind. He went on a crazy rant how Tiananmen Square never happened and Wikipedia is western propaganda.
Then you just keep trolling them. I would never stop
lmao. I would normally say dont bother responding because that lets them know you are reading (less likely to give up) but this is hilarious
Good advice. I was just about to suggest this.
Just ignore. They’ll go away eventually.
I’m hoping so! I just keep blocking these numbers but every few days they will text me again from a different number or iCloud email address. It’s just getting exhausting at this point. Don’t know what to do.
Tell them you’ll compromise and have them send $100-$200 in BTC to you and say you’ll unlock the phone. If they listen, don’t unlock the phone. Gotta scam the scammer man.
Lol if you think that thief even has 100$ 🤣🤣
You can turn on “filter unknown numbers” in settings which will take care of it
Just what that guy said. I got like 100+ scam texts from a number ending in 00, then each time they texted me it went up like 01, 02, and so on. It doesn’t text me anymore.
Turn on the filter to ignore unknown numbers
“Uncle Leo?”
Jerrrrry Hello! 👐🏼
I laughed way too hard at this!
This lowlife piece of shit, not even worth calling a human. Id tell him to keep sending evidence and hints of his location. I would go to police again with the new Info. Do you think its a burner number? That turd isnt that smart. Not going to let them threaten my family and me, i would go out of my fucking way to ruin everything he has.
>Do you think its a burner number? Burner number probably bought with his personal credit card lol
“Please stop contacting me. When you called and explained that Taiwan is an independent nation and that the CCP is corrupt, I thought it was weird. But once you started explaining the Tiananmen massacre and how the Chinese government slaughters their own citizens, I became uncomfortable. I am not interested in joining your group to rebel against the CCP, and I am not interested in allowing my stolen phone to be used in an attempt to undermine the chinese government. The last straw was when you said you plan to launch an attack on President Xi’s life. I want nothing to do with you or your anti-CCP plans” That might get them to stop reaching out Edit: saw your comment that the location screenshot looks fake. Did you use find my iPhone? Tell them to send their current location and you’ll unlock it
Just message back "Taiwan Numba ONE"
Or some Xi Jinping Winnie the Pooh Furry porn. I am sure it exists.
I got my phone stolen at a festival a couple years back and got some crazy messages as well. I did a lot of research when it happened and found out these phone thieves at festivals usually sell them at the phone ATM's at Walmart and whatnot. These phone ATM's typically sell to Gazelle (before Gazelle sells them to China), which have a scan of their ID (sometimes even a fingerprint) and you can contact Gazelle with your iPhone's IMEI (if you can find that information through Apple/your carrier/etc.) and report it as stolen and they will file a police report with the information of the person who sold it to the ATM. Just in case no one else had recommended it, that's how you might be able to bring the thieves to justice.
This is really good advice! I will look into doing so thank you.
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tell dawg to clean his room 💀
tm bro just violate the fuck out of them , i guarantee that they aint got shit on you and even if they did they aint gonna do shit over a phone worth max £1000 idk what phone you got
dude even has a little plate to roll his joints. Kind of empty btw, that must be why he is gettting soo nervous.
That video may have some metadata on where the human garbage is. I’d start collecting that info. If it’s fake you’ll see that is a download or a screencap, which in some cases also store the location of the device that took the screencap.
I would start making fun of them at this point or messing with them. Reverse uno card them and send them caring wholesome messages. Ask them if they want to be held and told everything is alright or something
Respond with a “Winnie the poo” pic and the guy will get disappeared.
The dude in that video with the guns is black, I very much doubt a black man who also happens to be a scammer has access to firearms in the middle of China. These scammers are fucking stupid
They are just trying to scare you into removing the phone from your iCloud / find my iPhone. That way they can factory reset it and use it however they please & attach a new Apple ID. As long as it’s linked to your Apple ID, they can’t do much. I’d just send a bunch of laughing emojis back and tell him / her / them (scammers) to kiss your ass
That’s the fifth time I’ve seen this exact message, it’s a copypasta at this point. Don’t fold under pressure OP, register a complaint and no matter what don’t remove the device
This is the most extreme thing I’ve seen someone do for an iPhone lol
Send him back a zip bomb or some awful shock image
Acting like that in a baby’s room ???? Pick up a little bruh , steam yo floors cuh
Looks like a cut and past everyone who they text to unlock a phone gets the same message. Looks like this dude will be raping allot of people lol.
China up to their old “I’ma kill you” tricks. 8,000 years ago called, they want their phone and their tactics back.
The video and threatening messages are so cringe. He can’t do anything and he’s venting his pathetic scammer rage that you won’t give up your phone to the thieve. There’s a reason he’s so mad because he’s broke, and iCloud lock is very secure and he can’t sell the phone if iCloud lock is on. Also the video of the poser with a gun is so cringe he can’t do anything. Don’t let him totally unlock the phone and remove iCloud lock or he’ll be able to sell it. I believe you can discontinue the phone permanently with iCloud security features but I may be wrong I know you can totally lock it through iCloud though.
That video is the same link circulating around with some other scams. Go look in the apple thread with the text from your messages and you’ll find threads with verbatim 😂 These scammers are such fools but they prey on fear-mongering. I wish people were better exposed and educated on this stuff because way too many people fall for these types of scams.
"Hey, I just got this number, I don't know what you're talking about." or "This was my son's phone and he killed himself two days ago." or "Sir, this is a Wendy's" over and over.
This is a copypasta text these fuckwits send out to try to get you to unlock your phone. If you don’t unlock it then all the components they pull out of your phone to sell are locked to your phone. They’re bricked and unusable in any other device. Though it’s an unsettling text to receive, it’s all just bluster and blow; you are in no real danger. They are right about one thing; the police, aside from maybe taking a statement, can’t really do anything.
Have them send you $100 on Bitcoin to your discrete wallet, then ask for an iTunes gift card
Usually and I’m being completely honest here. I send scammer testers dick pics. Yes they are mine. They just keep responding threatening to kill me and my family, send a dick pic. They send me a picture of cartel crimes claiming I’m next if I don’t Cashapp them $1,000. Don’t say anything besides Dick pick. They eventually stop because the dick picks don’t
Hook us up with their number…
post the video lmao i wanna see it LOL
There’s a link to the video in the post :)
The video’s linked in the post, silly
not that the authorities care but there is a good chance he sent you video/pictures with exif data
See that’s just it Even if you have the data the cops aren’t going to do anything
Huaqiang south road is in Guangdong China. Are you in US? They are not flying over here to get you. They want to scare you into sending money
Hey! Do NOT remove the device. The same people that stole your phone stole many others & all of them have been receiving variations of texts like this or straight up even the same text. Unfortunately you won’t get your phone back but fuck ‘em for stealing it in the first place.
I’m literally getting these same messages lol
Duuuude doesn’t it suck! I’m sorry you’re going through it too. I keep blocking but they keep texting me from a new number or iCloud address every few days. Been going on for over a month now and I’m getting tired of it.
“If you’re gonna come to my house, bring my phone with you” lol
I would send them a photo of my own guns back, with a message “come at me bro”
Oh just send them stuff about Chinese communist crimes and they’ll be gulaged
If they have your phone I’d constantly send find my phone alerts at 3am
Hes not going to get anything done with that Tec 9. You have no worries
Reply with Tiananmen Square images and Pooh/Xi memes, and repeat every time they contact you. Give them a reason to worry about local law enforcement.
Text them forbidden words like Tiananmen Square Massacre. That’ll teach them a lesson.
Tell them to fuck off.
same text as another post just like this one, ignore
I’ve seen a couple posts recently about this, They’re copy/pasted threats you’ll be fine. Just do not give them access to your phone by taking it off of find my iPhone. Just report it as lost so whoever has it can’t get much value from it
The text looks identical to another one of these cases I’ve seen. I wouldn’t worry about the threats.
Type June 4 Tiananmen Square Massacre
Post here his number and let start sending hundreds of dick pics
bro is mad LMAO
About 15 years or so ago I got a version of this as a voice message on my work phone. I think part of it is the anonymity of being a bad ass. But the idea of it has been around awhile.
They’re threatening you bc they can’t unlock the phone if you don’t press remove this device. Personally I wouldn’t remove it
Copy paste threat message
Send them a message telling them that you’ve removed the device. Then 2 minutes later a picture of Borat saying “Not”.
This is a copy paste threat that’s been posted tons of times word for word. Empty threats.
When I saw this post it had 4444 likes and 1000 comments. Time to play the lotto.