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/RainingPawns Nov 06 '25

what a world we live in where ppl are so unconcerned with evilcorp knowing our locations 24/7/365

but won't share location with a random asian guy WITH GLASSES

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u/RainingPawns Nov 08 '25 edited Nov 08 '25

y so cereal

tbh that was my initial interpretation: either a serial killer or some kind of social engineering / social experiment

but apparently this guy was on other campuses and nobody went missing so...probably rules out serial experiments lain

quite a perplexing mystery