Mobile phones are one of the most common and easiest targets of thieves and pickpockets. Imagine getting robbed for your iPhone and months later you receive a text asking you for the passcode of your stolen phone?
Something like this happened with a woman in the UK who lost her iPhone in a cab in Leeds. Three months later a person from a Pakistani number started contacting the woman, Abby’s emergency contacts. He somehow reached Abby and asked her to share her stolen phone’s passcode.
The woman refused to do so and asked where he got the phone from, to which the person replied that he had bought it from someone but could not use it as it was locked.
Abby asked him to share the contact details of the person he had bought the phone from but he denied to so. Abby too did not share her phone’s passcode with him. She shared the screenshots of the entire conversation on Twitter which went viral in no time.
https://twitter.com/Abbyfent1/status/1140702636091596800
The person also insisted the woman share her passcode saying that he will pray that she gets an iPhone X in return for her passcode. The conversation has left Twitterati in splits.
Had me at “have a good life”
— Jordan (@jordanandgym) June 19, 2019
I had the exact same thing happen to me, told me to give him the passcode and he would send it back to me after a month. Even sent me a picture of a man with one leg so I felt sorry for him! 😂
— Michael Taylor (@Michael17723475) June 18, 2019
Only you this shit happens to 😂😂
— moll (@mollwalshh) June 18, 2019
https://twitter.com/georgieB73/status/1141321012132405250
Can you not login to find my iPhone (or similar for Samsung etc) to delete and lock phone?. These folk are unreal though 😂
— Ian (@Ian_I4S) June 19, 2019
What are your thoughts on the entire scene? Have you ever come across any such incident in real life?