He denounces that after he lost his Apple Watch, they charged him $40,000 on his cards

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A woman reports Losing your Apple Watch at a Disney attraction April 13 this year. However, this time the news is not related to the successful recovery of the device, but to suspected fraud triggered by this incident.

What would be a fun day at Disney’s Epcot ended when a user lost her Apple Watch Hermès model, at a time when the attraction was in an elevated position. Immediately, attraction officials informed him that the device would be recovered and came back down, but that never happened.

When there was no response, the user, whose identity is unknown, filed a complaint with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, alleging park staff never returned the Apple Watch. . To this complaint was added the accusation of unauthorized charges on several of his credit cards for $40,000.which were made with some information obtained from the clock.

A trip to Disney with no happy ending

As reported by Apple Insider, after the complaint authorities asked the woman to speak with her card issuers to get more information about the fraudulent charges for a full investigation.

To date and although details of the information have not been shared, there is reason to believe that the two cases are unrelated. And it is precisely, one of the Apple Watch’s security measures involves auto-locking after being separated from the wrist. And therefore the introduction of a code to access it before making a payment.

In the passage a story that had as protagonist an iPhone that disappeared in one of the lakes of one of the Disney attractions had a better resultwhen eight months later the lost property service contacts the owner for its restitution.

But this case is still unsolved, and the Apple Watch and a large sum of money are sued by the victim. So, and although recovering the silver requires further investigation, In the case of the Apple Watch, it is likely that the park will eventually assume its return.

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