The act of putting AirTag in household goods to track unreliable movers is talked about
Apple's lost item tracker '
Army wife uses AirTag hack to track her movers while PCSing
https://www.militarytimes.com/the-home-front/2022/01/12/army-wife-uses-airtag-hack-to-track-her-movers-while-pcsing/
Army spouse uses Apple AirTag to track down shady moving truck driver
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/army-airtag-moving-company/
AirTag's method of monitoring movers was reported by Military Times, a press organization for US military personnel. According to the Military Times, a military personnel belonging to the U.S. military is 'a large-scale but sloppy move,' which is one of the packages sent even though some destinations have to move across continents rather than borders. It is said that the department is often transported to another place.
Valerie McNulty, who has experienced such a rough move four times, devised a method of 'utilizing AirTag'. When McNulty was ordered to move from Colorado in the Midwest to New York in the east, he hid AirTag in a cardboard box containing children's toys and entrusted it to a mover.
The mover was planning to complete the delivery on Friday, but not only did he tell McNulty that it would be delivered on Sunday, but a few hours later, 'Luggage in Colorado.' I just received it, and the driver contacted me at the earliest on Monday. '
However, this notice was contrary to the facts, according to information obtained from AirTag that Mr. McNulty had loaded into his luggage, the luggage in question was delivered to 'New Jersey' instead of Colorado. Colorado, which the mover reported, is the state where Mr. McNulty sent his luggage, while New Jersey is the state south of the destination New York. In other words, the mover has told us that the current location of the cargo is quite appropriate.
When Mr. McNulty pointed out this matter on the phone, the moving company hung up and called back a few minutes later, 'I think the delivery will be on Sunday at the earliest.'
Subsequent investigations revealed that the mover's coordinator wasn't even able to figure out where the driver was, and that the driver was far south of his destination, not because of any trouble, but just 'going to see his wife.' Discovered. 'Without AirTag, we would have been waiting longer,' McNulty recalls.
It seems that most of Mr. McNulty's luggage arrived safely through such troubles, but Mr. McNulty said, 'I made a false declaration and put the luggage,' saying that several cardboard boxes containing high-priced items have not arrived yet. Some people steal, 'he says, calling for an improvement in the military moving process.
In addition, although other cases of using AirTag for theft prevention as in the above cases have been reported, in recent years, the method of misusing AirTag and using it for stalking is steadily increasing. Apple has published official guidelines on how to find suspicious AirTags around you, explaining how to detect them using Find My iPhone.
What to do if you get a notification that you have AirTag or 'Find My' network-enabled accessories-Apple Support (Japan)
https://support.apple.com/ja-jp/HT212227
Apple has also released the official app 'Tracker Detect' for Android, and if you use this app, you can detect suspicious AirTags around you even on Android. For more information on Tracker Detect, please refer to the following articles.
Apple's official app 'Tracker Detect' that can detect other people's AirTag and avoid location information tracking has appeared for Android, so I tried using it --GIGAZINE
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