this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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So the way these thieves work most of the time, they don't know what to do with stolen items or how to liquidate them, so they'll sell everything that they have to a bit more sophisticated criminal who knows how to liquidate stolen items and knows buyers of everything. Ideally when they steal a phone they don't care what phone it is, they'll sell it to their middleman, middleman will pay probably pennies on the dollar since it's not an iPhone and street level thief wouldn know it's value, middleman will probably sell it to someone that will gut it and take components out.
In this case, thieves just be new to the game or amateurs.