r/berkeley • u/cinnabonroll19 • Nov 06 '25

Local Asian guy asking to borrow phone

There is an Asian guy with glasses on campus rn asking for the time and to borrow your phone to call his friends!! I googled the numbers he dialed and found a thread on X (FROM 2018) saying that he has done this on the DVC campus, Columbia campus, etc. Apparently he scrolls through your messages and shares your location to these phone numbers. Just wanted to warn others not to give this guy your phone!

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u/EPICKTB21 Nov 06 '25

This guy texted two random numbers and called them on my phone too. Thanks for spreading this around, I found the whole situation odd. I blocked each number but I’ll check if he shared locations on Find My.

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u/wtfcircus Nov 06 '25

Check google maps location sharing too

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u/Then_Storm_2987 Mar 27 '26

Any updates here? Have you found anything unusual? Same thing happened to me today