The number one rule when it comes to stealing an iPhone is to turn off Find My iPhone and restore iOS to factory settings. Every good thief knows this, but there are so many clueless ones who don’t; the latest of whom is a charming douchebag from Dubai named Hafid.
Hafid likes to cruise around various locales of the UAE and pose the shit out of them. What he doesn’t know is all his profound selfies and other photos on his stolen iPhone are being uploaded to the original owner’s Dropbox account. And she’s posting them all on Tumblr:
According to the unnamed author of Life Of A Stranger Who Stole My Phone, Hafid stole her iPhone one night on the beach of Ibiza, Spain. She and three friends got sloshy drunk, striped off their clothes, and ran hopelessly naked into the sea. Then they came back and found all their stuff gone.
That would have been the end of the story except Hafid, being the charmer that he is, decided to log into the stolen-iPhone owner’s Facebook account to flirt her up. When that didn’t work he tried to hook up with her friends on Skype.
Now days he’s just living it up in Dubai, working on his clothing line. Here are some of his finest memories:
Swaggin’ next to the the Burj Khalifa.
“Profound and emotional down-to-earth-Hafid.”
Beach Day!
Working on his fashion line.
Hafid’s dream whip.
You can dive deeper into the strange world of Hafid over on Tumblr.
Source: Tumblr
Via: BI
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
7 responses to “This Thief Doesn’t Know His Stolen iPhone Is Uploading All His Selfies To Tumblr”
“Life of a Stronger…” “… decided to use log into the stolen iPhone”
Jesus, hire a damn copy editor…
He is a Moroccan expat with a Moroccan passport from Morocco, he is not a United Arab Emirates citizen, try to verify news before posting it like that publicly.
@benghaith nowhere in the article does it say that he is a United Arab Emirate citizen.
This is a hoax. The person says it is an iphone, but the EXIF information is clear that this was taken with an HTC Desire S, and edited with Photoshop on a Macintosh. The dates of the photo are from 12/29/2012. If you notice, one of the captions (above) says: “in december 2012 some of my friends called me, asking why some arabian guy tries to hit on them via my skype account. i thought this was some kind of misunderstanding but luckily my friend andra recorded the conversation. i thought subtitles wouldn’t be wrong here.”
This is a hoax from January 2013, most likely.
photoboy1 is right, the EXIF info says the photos were taken with an HTC Desire S. This is a hoax.
It’s also one difference between bloggers and actual trained journalists. Not taking a knock on bloggers, but journalists are trained to double check every fact. A simple check of the EXIF info from these pictures would have revealed this is a hoax and the story shouldn’t have been run.
EXIF doesn’t mean much.. he could have uploaded his photo’s from his old phone. Many people transfer there photo’s and contacts, not just throw them away.
Edited on a Mac doesn’t mean much either.. people like to keep their touched up photo’s on their phone to show them off.. This guy obviously likes to keep his ego up.. Totally fits.
@Photoboy1 and @Cocacolakid; wouldn’t make very good journalists yourselves if you’d considered the above.
Then obviously you don’t understand how EXIF data works. Those are embedded in the data of the photo when the photo is taken. Putting the photos on another device and uploading them from that device doesn’t change the EXIF data.
And, btw, I went to journalism school.