Hello,

I just found this note in my letter box a while ago. I am not sure if this is a scam or what. This is the first time I saw something like this happen. Asked a few friends around but the dont seem to have encountered this ever.
My best guess is the person must be tracking his airpods and probably put up this note to try his luck.
What are your thoughts?

by Be_gull

25 comments

  2. Well did you steal any airpods at the train station?

  3. I don’t think a German wrote it to be honest. Wordings are all off for a native speaker.

  4. Are you living in an apartment building with many others? The idea that someone is tracking his stolen AirPods makes sense to me, and the suggestion that you should hand them over to the Fundbüro sounds rather non-confrontational in this context.

    As – I guess – you are not in possession of said AirPods, I would just keep the note in case anything will escalate further. Other than that, I would ignore it.

  5. I’d hand in (or post) the note to the lost and found dept and let them deal with it. Might be an employee.

  6. Are you living in a house with muliple mailboxes? If so, maybe the owner of the airpods tracked them to your house and just put these notes into every mailbox, hoping to also reach the (suspected) thief.

  7. I tell you what happened: he lost his AirPods and was able to get the location of your house. He printed the message and put it in all mailboxes of your house. If the tracking was correct, one of the mailboxes is correct.

  8. My guess is that the owner was able to locate them roughly and just put this in all mailboxes in the area.

  10. I think your suspicion is very reasonable. He tracked his AirPods, threatened the whole block and tries to get them back that way.

    You could go to the cops but they will do nothing, in the worst case they rather target you. I would definitely not do that. Ignoring it seems to be the best option imo.

  11. > the person must be tracking his airpods and probably put up this note to try his luck

    Exactly: they probably tracked them to the building and put the same letter in every letterbox. I am not a lawyer, but if I understand correctly, the police won’t be able to get a warrant to search your apartment without clear evidence that the airpods are highly likely to be there — “it’s been tracked to one of the apartments in this building” isn’t, as far as I know, good enough evidence.

    To be honest, I think this person is hoping that whoever does have the airpods will be spooked enough to hand them in.

  12. Return the AirPods or suffer my cuuuurrrrrrseeeee

  13. Since it’s not laminated its not valid. A true German laminates his documents.

  14. nothing to fear, cant be proven anything. ignore it and you know from nothing

  15. Well one of your neoghbors seems to be a thief. Doesn’t concern you and you can’t exactly report an entire house. But the real thief might just be scared enough to take the hint.

  16. If you have found the pods or stolen them, return them. If you have no idea, what this is about, ignore it.

    I don’t know about AirPods, but I doubt they can be located that exactly. Whoever put this in your mailbox has most likely done to every one of your neighbors. And the threat that he will go to the police is an empty one, because the police will not search every apartment for them.

    Into the paper bin.

  17. Ask your neighbours if they had the same threatening note ?

  18. lost my airpods a while ago, someone found them. I could track them (still van btw) to a house where the person probably lived, but it had 8 apartments and there was no way of finding out which one they were in…. thats his way of trying

  19. I guess someone dropped this into every box near where his FindMy app is telling him the AirPods are. 

    I also guess the thief hasn’t realized you can easily reset them. 

    If it’s not you, just ignore. 

  20. I had a similar message about a wallet, i tossed it in the bin.

  22. I am so happy i understood this letter without translating it. I have been studying German for a while now.

  23. They likely pinged your building with the “Find my” feature and just mail bombed everyone. If they were after you specifically, they would’ve added your name from the letterbox.

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