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Serial mail thieves thwarted when victim sends herself an AirTag

Expecting to get more checks and credit cards, mail thieves instead scooped up a package that contained an AirTag — as police soon got to tell them.

A hand holding a circular tracking device with the Apple logo, in front of a blurred green outdoor background.
Apple AirTag

AirTags have been used in California before to find car thieves, and they’ve been sent in the mail to uncover the site of secret intelligence agencies in Germany. Now a repeat victim of theft from her mailbox at the Los Alamos Post Office in Santa Maria Valley, has used one to track down the culprits.

According to the New York Post the woman, who has not been identified, mailed herself an Apple AirTag. On discovering that it, too, had been stolen, she notified the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office that she was tracking the device.

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