IPhone robbery victims subsonic in the U.S. are increasing at an alarming rate. Page VNReview was loosely translated to a very deep article on Huffingtonpost and details about the tragic death happened because of the iPhone.
When Yang Sunah buy iPhone for brother 2 years ago, I warned her about the white accessories of iPhone headphones. She told me never to use them at night, they will make you a target for thieves.
At about midnight on 19/04/2012, Hwangbum Yang, an immigrant chef promising 26-year-old South Korean who finished work at a restaurant in Manhattan (USA). He started to walk home in the rain. Only a short distance from the house, Hwangbum Yang was a man at gunpoint. According to police, the attacker named Dominick Davis and want iPhones Yang. When he refused, Davis shot him once in the chest. subsonic Yang died on the roadside.
Yang still wearing the white iPhone headphones when medical personnel arrived. Who shot him for no action to Yang, but draw your iPhone. Then police found an iPhone on sale for $ 400.
Nearly a year after the death of Yang, overcast cloud cover still on his family. His father son sleeping on his bed, where his mother Yang prayer was shot dead a day for 4 weeks until her husband said stop.
Fatal case of Yang is an example of crime concerns raging across America. From New York to San Francisco to Washington DC, police said the burglary smartphones and tablets - particularly iPhone and iPad - increased sharply. Increased number of robberies that police had to set aside a "technical term" for such cases: Apple piracy.
Every day, criminals robbery phone on the crowded streets, inside the restaurant, subway station ... and then resold on the Internet, subsonic on the street corner and the local shops. According to the New York Police Department, phone theft tends to increase after each new Apple product subsonic launches.
The number of cases is increasing street signs clearest illustration of what legal authorities the industry subsonic is often referred to as "Underground" global. Many phone theft in the U.S. are sold to distant places such as Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. According to Lookout, mobile security company in San Francisco (USA), this market was valued at $ 30 billion per year.
The nature of this illegal trade originates partly from the measures which impose the American Revolution made the phone theft more difficult to resell in USA, criminals forced to seek foreign markets to target receptors. In the U.S., carriers subsidize phones for users, while in most countries, consumers pay the full price of the product. subsonic Buy sell trade robbers big phone and high birth rates that attracted both organized crime and terrorist organizations, drug cartels from Mexico to the Hezbollah militant group.
Approximately 40% of thieves in U.S. cities related to mobile subsonic phone robberies. Apple's iPhone has become the most obvious target of criminals. "We robbers today are not interested in the money in your wallet," Albie Esparza, a representative of the San Francisco Police Department, said. "We are interested in your phone, because they can sell and earn some quick money." Great benefit from the smartphone thefts
This problem has emerged from several years ago. At that time, the increase in robberies and weird as they ignore subsonic the value of the other items that just take the phone. March last year, the Washington DC police have arrested 13 iPhone dealer and stealing electronic items. 2 years ago, New York police subsonic arrested 141 employees of barber shops, newsstands, grocery stores and other businesses for consumption stealing iPhone and iPad.
Cathy Lanier, Washington DC police subsonic chief, said that the theft was the main supply source for the phone market subsonic trading is illegal. Police have devised many methods to induce them. In Washington DC, the secret police personnel to train and pretend the homeless, drunk and asleep in the hand still holding the phone. They will instantly alerted when thieves took the phone trap. Meanwhile, New York police have collected the serial number of the newly acquired iPhone outside the Apple store, so they can track stolen devices and returned to owner.
The phone company is also involved in efforts to combat the black market. For years, the network has blocked phone theft, which they can not be used on the system by closing the SIM card. But thieves simply replace the SIM is blocked by a new SIM phones and resell to other users on the network.
April of last year, under pressure from the U.S. Communications Commission (FCC) and the police department, the U.S. network AT & T, Verizon Wireless, Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed to participate and share the list s
