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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China

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One iPhone led police to gang who sent 40,000 snatched phones to China

www.bbc.com

fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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BBC News is given access to what the Met Police says is the UK's largest operation against mobile phone thefts.
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  • [鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma]|[alt: 黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui]@sh.itjust.works
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    Cops actually doing something? Wow, my opinion of them is now only 99.99% negative

    >looks at link “British Broadcasting Channel”

    >check location Ah, there we go, “UK”; American cops would just be eating donuts and getting fat

    • MurrayL@lemmy.world
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      (it’s British Broadcasting Corporation)

      • dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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        British Bong Cooperative

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          🅱️ritish 🅱️ong cloud

    • yesman@lemmy.world
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      The phone was probably stolen from a protestor they were investigating and the bust was coincidental.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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      Fatter*

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    Wouldn’t it be easier to steal them in China? It’s where most of them come from after all.

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      I wouldn’t be surprised if they had guards armed with SMGs and full body armour guarding the shipments as they leave the factory.

      Since Apple shrunk the packaging they could probably fit a million iPhones in one shipping container. Think how much that’d be worth!

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      There’s a pixar film here where a phone get sent to the US, but misses it’s manufacturer and like the one ring leaps from owner to thief to fence to reseller in china…

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    You better eat that entire iPhone. There are starving children building them in china!

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