Three masked men steal Emma’s cell phone in front of a bar. The 44-year-old follows her iPhone and wonders where it ends up.
Emma had her iPhone stolen on April 29 this year on Stratford High Street, just metres from her flat in east London, she told the Daily Mail.
The 44-year-old woman was sitting in the local pub with her husband and a friend when three masked men drove past and snatched the cell phone from her hand. The robbers were in their late 20s to early 30s, dressed in black and had their faces covered.
“The scary thing is that they come so fast and so close to you. It happened so quickly that I ran into the bar, terrified,” the young woman is quoted as saying by “TheStandard”.
Determined to find out where her iPhone had ended up, Emma used the Find my iPhone app and was surprised. “It went to two different addresses in north London and turned up three weeks later in Shenzhen, China,” she told the Daily Mail.
An IT expert told the Daily Mail he was not surprised. There are gangs in the UK selling stolen phones to cybercriminals overseas. “In China, there is a huge demand for phone parts because of the large population. Also, the regulations on spare parts are less strict,” he said.
In eighty percent of cases, these are phone parts that can be used to repair someone else’s phone or convert it into something else.
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