Pickpocket begs victim to unlock stolen phone

A pickpocket steals Veronica de Souza's iPhone while she waits for the train in New York. When she realizes it's gone, she goes home, remotely wipes it, and reports it as lost.

The next day she buys a new iPhone. "As long as I didn't remove the phone from my Apple account or the Find My app," she writes in the piece for The Gothamist, "the phone was essentially bricked to anyone without the passcode and my iCloud password — unusable by the thieves, or the fences who I assume bought it from them. — Read the rest

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