I Repaired A Criminals Burner Phone From eBay, What I Found On It Was Shocking

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Published 2024-07-06
I got more than I bargained for with this broken Google Pixel 6a I purchased from eBay.
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All Comments (21)
  • @bjornroesbeke
    7:52 "And our weak courts would probably just bail them anyway" Well, at least the loss of trust and confidence in the legal system is universal.
  • That pin code swipe was pure luck 🤣🤣 can't believe it was that easy to guess
  • @giggygiggy1393
    Hugh's Mum on phone to Hugh "Why is the FBI at my door !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
  • @alanjrobertson
    Lol at the thought of Hugh's mum not having seen his videos and innocently asking him "you don't have a spare phone by any chance do you?" 😂😂
  • Double thumbs up for Google making it easy to calibrate the fingerprint sensor, rather than serializing the part and destroying biometric authentication like Apple...
  • @Aphelia.
    I thought you handed in the phone to law officials, wasn't expecting a "our weak courts would probably just bail them" comment lol
  • Years ago my dad bought a G4 tower Mac off Ebay and when it arrived, the person hadn't wiped the hard drive, which contained explicit material. My dad worked for the state police, so he ended up handing it over to them. My dad ended up getting buying refunded by ebay and bought another Mac from elsewhere.
  • @macdaniel6029
    I'd imagine if your mom asks you for an new phone you just go to your drawer with 1000s of phones and ask her to choose one.
  • It was terrifying that this phone once belonged to a criminal who scammed people like crazy.
  • @3GORY
    Can't believe Hugh shot himself five times and jumped off of a bridge just right after uploading this video.
  • @theodoros_1234
    1:47 Yup, phones indeed can "sweat". I've also seen this before, specifically when playing a JerryRigEverything video on my phone.
  • The offline/powered down part of find my network requires a specific piece of hardware that only the pixel 8/8pro has.
  • Definitely not something you see everyday, I love that you’re using the iMac G4 from the previous video
  • @lamort223able
    Ayo that might be my old phone 😂 I sold a same color pixel 6a to a dude that really looked like a criminal, big chains big watches and a big muscle car, the dude didn’t even really look at the phone he just threw me the cash and skedaddled. If this phone came from Canada it might really be it. It was spotless when I sold it though. Probably still have the IMEI of the phone somewhere in my emails to look if they match
  • @Tarodenaro
    They're still smarter than the goons who fall for the ArcaneOS, at least.
  • @Zerbey
    Plot twist: His Mom is a master criminal and conned her son into fixing her phone for her.
  • I remember my grandpa got me a bag full of phones back in 2022 and when I looked at the search history on three of them, it showed adult websites
  • @KLondike5
    I wasn't real happy that the updated ID requirements included the DMV scanning my social security card. Of course, that number's already been stolen 10 times over directly from the credit bureaus and other sources since then.
  • @Viscous_Flow
    Your iTest app is phenomenal!!! You’re the king of the repair world.