If you’re going to a music festival and queuing up with friends or getting distracted by buying food from street vendors, Be careful with your iPhone. And more if you keep it in the back pocket of your pants or in your backpack. about a few months ago In the United States, several major iPhone phone thefts that occur during concerts and music events are linked. Like the Electric Daisy Carnival 2023 that took place in Las Vegas in May of this year, or the ones that took place at Grand Park Austin and Camping World Stadium in Orlando.

In the middle of these festivities many complaints have been made. Hundreds of people who were distracted while enjoying the show had their phones stolen, especially their iPhones.

A long journey to your final destination

According to a video posted by barely sociableand everything we share below shows it’s about an international criminal network aiming to steal electronic products en masse, Focusing on iPhone, then selling abroad. What is curious is that most of the owners of stolen phones report the incident on social networks and indicate this. Using Apple’s Find My app and tracking device locations has ended in China.

Seems like, The city of Shenzhen is one of the most common places for stolen iPhones in the United States.and they end for sure in Huaqiangbei neighborhood In essence, it is a market for used spare parts for all kinds of smartphones. Even the videos of YouTubers who have visited here and managed to make their own personalized iPhone from scratch are famous.

What is considered illegal traffic on electronic devices from Apple is a topic that has been played out for a long time. Actually, 9to5mac author Chance Miller shared a pretty similar experience When he went to Las Vegas in November 2022 and reported that his iPad Pro was lost in his hotel room.

After opening the search app and enabling the “Notify me when you find it” option, she first noticed it was in Oklahoma City at a place called “BuyBack Solutions”, a type of “cell phone recycling” company. And a month and a half later, when the iPad came back online, he noticed that it had appeared in China.

Before an investigation by Miller, They concluded that they could not unlock the iPad. they sold it to a company for parts and that’s how it came to China.

The truth of all this is that if you go to a crowded show or go to a very crowded place Make sure you hold your iPhone very well or place it in front of your body.. You never know if other participants belong to a network of electronic device thieves and walk like vultures stalking their next victim.