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Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold for a profit

We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen

Financial Times William Langley

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  • @nicfildes.ft.com Nic Fildes on bluesky
    Inside China's ‘stolen iPhone building’ - great piece by the FT's Will Langley on how that iPhone that was nicked from you in Mayfair ended up in a chop shop outside Shenzhen www.ft.com/content/752f... via @ft
  • @edconwaysky Ed Conway on x
    Fascinating @FT piece on what happens next to a stolen iPhone. They track one phone's journey thousands of miles across the globe to a mall in Shenzhen where stolen phones are sold on or disassembled & sold for parts. The underbelly of the global economy! https://www.ft.com/...
  • r/iphone r on reddit
    How Stolen iPhones Travel From Western Streets to Chinese Markets
  • r/apple r on reddit
    How Stolen iPhones Travel From Western Streets to Chinese Markets