A T-Mobile customer discovers that the box he received that was supposed to arrive with an iPhone 16 had no device inside.
The other day we told you how AT&T subscribers are being targeted by porch pirates who somehow are able to obtain tracking numbers of AT&T parcels shipped via FedEx. As we pointed out in the story, these thieves follow a FedEx truck and seconds after the driver drops a box containing a new iPhone on the doorstep, these creeps run out of their car, grab the box, and run off with a new iPhone on someone else’s dime.
There are two reasons why AT&T subscribers are being victimized by porch pirates. One reason is that some of these thieves were arrested with a copy of tracking numbers in their possession. This information, possibly sold to porch pirates by insiders, could be used to find out when packages from AT&T would be delivered to the carrier’s customers by FedEx. The second reason is that, unlike Verizon and T-Mobile, AT&T does not spend the additional money ($7.15 per package) needed to have a signature required to have these expensive phones dropped off at their destinations.
A package that was supposed to contain an iPhone had been previously opened and sloppily resealed
While requiring a signature to deliver a new iPhone would prevent porch pirates from grabbing boxes of iPhones from doorsteps, there are other ways to steal a brand new iPhone before the rightful owner ever gets his or her hands on the device.
