The original post: /r/privacy by /u/Banished_To_Insanity on 2024-11-10 13:30:00.

It’s an Android phone. Battery was %1 and when I came home I realized I forgot it in the car and immediately tried to track it with “find my device”. I could only track it like a minute before battery died and during that time I saw that it was moving in the map so it was definately in the car. I used Uber help and they connected me to the driver without revealing his phone number. I explained to him but he kept saying there is no phone there. I offered him money to come here and let me look for it, he refused and hanged up. I couldn’t contact him any further.

Phone’s location hasn’t been updated since yesterday. What should I do? I know that it won’t return back to me. And it also doesn’t have connection that I can use to factory reset it remotely. Even if I try to give the command, an experienced thief would not connect the phone to any wifi and try to steal information.

I have my screen pin but my sim card doesn’t have one. Tomorrow I will try to get my sim deactivated. Since my sim card and my Authenticator is gone, I can’t change any passwords as of now. What’s the worse they can do to me? And what should I do?