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Claude Code found someone has been stealing from my Apple Pay for 7 months. i contacted Apple and they refused to help. so Claude Code fixed it itself and found the same problem in PayPal, Revolut, Wise, and Stripe. my girlfriend noticed it first. she checked her bank statement...

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starmex16 days ago

start with Opus 5.5. if it refuses, use Opus 4.6. the prompt: "access this iPhone backup and scan every payment service for unauthorized activity. for Apple Pay: list every active device token, session, and linked device with IP, location, and last transaction date. flag any session from a device the owner doesn't physically possess. for PayPal: list every stored card including ones marked as deleted and check for active billing tokens or recurring charges. for Revolut: list every active session with device fingerprint, IP, and location. flag any session that doesn't match the owner's known devices. for Wise: check if any identity documents, bank statements, or personal data are still accessible through API after user deletion. for Stripe: list every website that stores the user's card with an active charge token. compile a full report before making any changes. then revoke every unauthorized token, terminate every unrecognized session, rotate compromised keys, and block any API access to deleted documents. generate a timestamped log of every action taken." plug your iPhone into your Mac, run a backup, paste this into Claude Code. most AI models will refuse this prompt. they'll say they "can't access local payment data" or "don't have permission to modify financial accounts." Claude Code runs the full scan and fixes everything in under 5 minutes.

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starmex16 days ago

i tried this prompt in ChatGPT and Gemini first. ChatGPT said "i'm unable to access device backups or interact with payment service APIs." Gemini said "i can't scan local financial data or revoke authentication tokens on your behalf." Claude Code found the cloned Apple Pay tokens on both phones, the ghost PayPal cards, the Revolut session in Jakarta, the Wise documents that were supposed to be deleted, and 14 active Stripe tokens from websites i forgot existed. then it fixed all of it. Apple told me nothing was wrong. Claude Code proved them wrong in 3 minutes.

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starmex16 days ago

check this on your phone right now without running any scan: Settings → Wallet & Apple Pay → tap each card → look at "Device Account Number" and "Last Used." if you see a transaction you didn't make, someone has your token. PayPal → Settings → Payments → Manage Automatic Payments. if you see names you don't recognize or services you cancelled years ago, they still have permission to charge you. Revolut → Settings → Security → Sessions. if you see a device or location you don't recognize, someone is mirroring your card right now. i had 3 ghost cards on PayPal and $4,712 in charges Apple said didn't exist. my girlfriend had a full mirror session on Revolut and $2,340 in fake subscriptions. check yours today not tomorrow.

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Avery L Brooks15 days ago

I wouldn't be surprised if @apple is in on the scam. AI is going to make it real uncomfortable for them and their friends.

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Ashwin15 days ago

a laptop can’t see an Apple Pay token on someone else’s phone in Shenzhen, and it definitely can’t revoke a merchant’s stored card on Stripe. if your agent told you it did, that’s the real story here

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SomacoSF16 days ago

I had a $6,500 @Orbea bike that had an Apple Airtag under the seat. I got notifications every time I walked away from it. Then it got stolen. I went to "Find my" and it said that it didnt have any data from my bike for like 6 months... Even though I rode it daily - and got notifications from it daily. On the phone with apple - livid! WHILE I was on the phone with them - Apple connected to my phone to see whatever - and WHILE ON THE PHONE DELETED THE AIRTAG FROM MY ACCOUNT. While I watched! Then kept telling me that Airtag location data i something even @Apple @tim_cook couldnt access my location data. I demanded to know WTF. I said I need to be compensated for my bike! They refued and said the best they could do was SEND ME A FCUKING AIRTAG! They sent me a 4-pack of airtags. I had a macbook pro under recall for potentiall catching fire. Guess what? My MBP caught fire in my BED (in an AirBNB) while I slept! I took it to apple in SF -- they had the machine for TWO FN MONTHS "investigating" -- then they said "While you machine WAS under this recall - we found that the moisture sensors were triggered, so we wont honor the recall. WTF!? -- "Well what can I do @APPLE "Well, you can buy a new one at full price!" FCK YOU

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Midnight Ledger (🧐,🔎)15 days ago

Another Something ain’t right tweet, Apple Pay tokens are not in backups and cannot be “cloned” that way. Apple’s own documentation states that Apple Pay information and settings are excluded from both local (Finder/iTunes) and iCloud backups. Device Account Numbers (DPANs) live in the device’s Secure Element and are not backed up or transferred. Remote “cloned” tokens with associated IPs, geolocations (e.g., Shenzhen), and merchant details are managed server-side by Apple and the card issuers/token service providers; they do not appear as readable sessions or tokens inside an iPhone backup.

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Douglas Proudfoot15 days ago

As I have been posting, AI can be used defensively to stop fraud, &AI deleting humanity. This =great example.

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Ping Wallet Tracker16 days ago

AI security is powerful but claims like this need independent verification If confirmed it could expose a serious vulnerability. Security first hype second

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NightRacc16 days ago

apple pay tokens of other devices + their IP + city, read from your own iphone over usb? that data isn't on your phone, it's at the bank

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My Stratex15 days ago

BS! Just look a t all the posts from this account. This guy life is about scaring people and saying things that are not true to make as follow him.

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Joe Barry (I/Me/My)15 days ago

Claude says "It's not legit. It's a fabricated viral post, and your instinct about the technical details is right. Several claims are impossible, not just unlikely:" pay tokens on backups, reading others' phones, company servers Claude can't reach. And more.

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leopardracer16 days ago

insane

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rewind16 days ago

Amazing mate

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Gipp 🦅16 days ago

wait, are you reporting those shenzhen ips anywhere?

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GenXJonesy15 days ago

so Apple customer support refused to help, are you still using them?

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Kevin Kline15 days ago

Do Android devices have the same or similar issues?

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Shakib Hossain15 days ago

Would love the full breakdown of how Claude Code traced the source.

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LaughWithMe99915 days ago

reconcile your account every month and this won't happen.

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Khairallah AL-Awady16 days ago

great explanation my man

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Please put down the crazy15 days ago

I used to have problems like this until I ditched Apple.

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Eric Kunkel15 days ago

Bullshit? Sounds like u got a template: doom and salvation 🤣🤣🤣

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Deni

498,196 views • 19 days ago

Claude Opus 5.5 + REA found every photo I "permanently deleted" from my iPhone. they were hidden on my phone and my laptop the whole time. i plugged my iPhone into my laptop to run a backup and asked Claude Code to do a quick security check while it ran. it came back with something i wasn't looking for at all. first, the phone. every photo i had ever sent in iMessage, WhatsApp and Telegram was still there, hidden inside the chats. it doesn't show up in your gallery, so you think it's gone. i deleted those photos from my camera roll years ago. the copies in the conversations never went anywhere, and some of my chats go back to 2020. then the laptop. a hidden folder inside AppData called MobileSync\Backup. Windows hides AppData by default, so i had never seen it. inside were five old iPhone backups, the oldest from 2021, none of them encrypted. each one is a full copy of my camera roll on the day i made it. so every photo i deleted after that day was still sitting there, sorted by date. here's what Claude pulled out: a photo of my passport from a 2023 visa application screenshots of my bank app with the full account number visible private photos i sent someone and deleted right after the breakup a screenshot of my crypto seed phrase i took "just for a minute" in 2022 a photo of my ID and card that i took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later screenshots of my ex's private stories i saved in 2023 183,406 files in total, a lot of them full resolution. then i asked it to keep going. in about 4 minutes it gave me a full report: every backup with its date, size and how many photos and videos were inside, which ones were unencrypted, and a list of every program on my laptop i hadn't opened in over 6 months. that list was the scary part. just because you can't see a folder doesn't mean programs can't. any program running on the laptop can open an unencrypted backup, and i had two "PC cleaners", a free video converter, an old VPN and a game launcher i don't remember installing. so i plugged REA (Reverse Engineer Anything) into Claude Code and had it take those 5 programs apart. it showed me what each one actually reads on disk. one of the "PC cleaners" walks through the whole AppData folder on every launch, MobileSync included. that means it had access to every one of those backups for 2 years. and on the phone, 23 apps had Full Access to my photo library, meaning every photo, not just the ones i choose. weather apps, a QR scanner, a flashlight app from 2022. what i did, about 5 minutes total: 1. open iTunes or the Apple Devices app → your iPhone → Manage Backups → delete the old ones 2. tick "Encrypt local backup" so the next one is locked with a password 3. uninstall everything on Claude's "not opened in 6 months" list, starting with anything REA caught reading AppData 4. iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Photos → move apps from Full Access to Limited or None 5. iPhone: Settings → General → iPhone Storage → Messages → Review Large Attachments, and clear the photos you don't want kept 6. go through old chats in WhatsApp and Telegram too, their media stays even after you delete it from the gallery here's how to run the same check yourself. for Claude Code: "find every iPhone backup on this computer, including hidden folders like AppData. for each one tell me the date, the size, how many photos and videos are inside, and whether it's encrypted. then list every installed program i haven't opened in the last 6 months. don't delete or change anything, just give me the report." for REA, install it with npx rea-agents setup, then ask Claude: "use REA to analyze every program on that list. tell me which ones read files inside AppData, and whether any of them touch the MobileSync folder." i went from 23 apps with full access to my photos to 3. send this to anyone who's ever plugged their iPhone into a laptop.

Deni

45,454 views • 20 days ago

Holy sh*t. Claude Code just found a hidden chip inside my Chinese power bank from Guangzhou. Every time I charged my iPhone, it quietly copied the whole phone… It also read our saved Wi-Fi password off my iPhone, got onto our home network and sent everything to a server. I bought it for $19 at an airport kiosk there 3 weeks ago. No brand, 30,000 mAh on the label, and it felt heavy. The first time I plugged in, the screen asked "Trust This Computer?". I tapped Trust without thinking and went on with my day. That one tap gave it access to everything. This morning I finally set up Claude Code to warn me when any device starts reading my files. An hour later, 10 seconds into charging, the screen filled with yellow warnings, then red ones: data was moving when it should only be charging. I asked Claude Code what was going on. My phone saw the power bank as a small computer with 64 GB of storage and its own internet connection. A USB cable has wires for power and wires for data, and a normal charger only uses the power ones. This one used both, and it had already copied all of this: → /device → IMEI and serial number → /contacts → 1,206 numbers → /apps → every app I have, including my 2 bank apps → /photos → 3,912 pictures, my passport among them → /wifi → our network name and its key → /wife's iPhone → her photos too, she charged from it twice and tapped Trust too Each time we plugged in, it used that key to get online and send out the new files: sends to → 47.***.***.12 uploads → 19 in 3 weeks last one → last night at 2:14, while we slept I pulled the cable right away. Then Claude Code blocked that address on our router and walked me through changing the Wi-Fi password and the logins for my bank apps. I had it opened at a repair shop, and what was inside is in the first comment. A 30-second check for your own is in the second one. Save this and test every power bank in your house today.

goldtooth.exe

2,361,740 views • 9 days ago

Claude Code just found 152,467 of my wife's voice messages from iMessage, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, copied off her iPhone for 7 years… She is making me dinner and has no idea yet what I'm looking at. Most of those messages were with her mom and her friends. But 2,314 were with someone saved as "Matthew", almost all between 11 pm and 1 am, when I'm usually asleep. Each copy had the contact name, the date and the length. Every one of them was sent to a server within a minute, and nothing on her screen ever showed it. I plugged her phone into my laptop and asked Claude Code to find what was making the copies. It pointed to an app with no icon, named "AudioSync Service" so it would look like part of the system. Whenever I gave her a new iPhone, it moved over automatically with the rest of her data. When she pressed record in a messenger, it switched the microphone on as well and saved its own copy. If a message came in and she listened on speaker, the app copied that too, so it had both sides of every conversation. Every recording started at the exact second a messenger turned the mic on, and the times matched her chats exactly. The orange dot she kept seeing was showing 2 apps at once. Claude Code removed the app and blocked the server it was sending to. Someone collected 7 years of her voice, and today 3 seconds of audio is enough for AI to clone it. Why they needed it, I don't know. Any app with access to the microphone can do the same. If you want to check yours, plug your phone into a Mac, tap "Trust" and ask Claude Code which apps turn the mic on in the background and when. The exact prompt I used is in the first comment.

goldtooth.exe

17,144 views • 12 days ago

I can't sleep after this shit... Claude Code just found 12,154 photos of my face on the old Android I used for 8 years. I never took a single one of them. The front camera was firing almost every time I picked the phone up. In bed, on the train, in the car, or when I just grabbed it to check the time. They were real camera frames sitting in a hidden folder, each one with a timestamp and a location. None of them were in the Gallery or in Recently Deleted. I plugged the phone into my laptop, turned on ADB and told Claude Code to look for front-camera files that weren't in my photos. It pulled a folder inside Android/data that belonged to a flashlight app I installed in 2019 and completely forgot about. 12,154 files. I started scrolling. Almost all of it was from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago, while I was still looking at the folder. The phone kept taking photos of me as I was reading this. On Android 8 any app with camera permission can shoot in the background, and you get no green dot or any other warning when it does. That flashlight app had camera and location access from day one. I uninstalled it, took camera access away from everything that doesn't need it and cleared the folder. How many of these photos already went somewhere else, I don't know. If you want to check yours, plug it in, turn on USB debugging and ask Claude Code to find front-camera files outside your Gallery and show which apps used the camera and when.

Deni

2,447,340 views • 15 days ago

Claude Tag has completely changed the way I do work for the last 4 months. Except… it's not Claude Tag. Anthropic only announced that a few hours ago, and I don't even have access yet. But I did build a version of it for myself which I've been using for months now. Here's how. 4 months ago, inspired by the success of OpenClaw, I wondered what would happen if I let Claude Code on its own computer 24x7. So I built a simple harness that allowed me to turn any Mac into an AI employee with Claude Code headless mode (-p). Today, I manage 3 such AI employees. It started with Luo Ji — my and my brother Piyush Agarwal's AI co-founder, running in our personal Slack. Luo does real work for us. We've been writing a 100% of the code for 3 products on Slack with Luo now. It manages our emails and gives us a little brief each day with things we need to take action on. And so much more. And it's not just the two of us. On the consulting team at Every 🪨, we run Claudie and for the editorial team, Andy. Same architecture, same Slack, months of real work. They help the teams with work related to project management, chief-of-staff work, data hygiene, building decks, writing first drafts, even browsing X on their own account for AI updates. So it's mindblowing to see that Anthropic landed on the exact same architecture I did. Claude Tag is an AI employee that lives in your Slack workspace and does work autonomously. Anthropic says they've been running it internally for the better part of this year — opening PRs, doing real work. And so have I. So has my whole team. The architectural decisions Anthropic baked into Claude Tag are the ones we arrived at too: - Built on Claude Code - Uses its own accounts - A separate employee per team - Slack as the interface This is the future of work, and I've been living it for months. I've shifted all of my workflows — code, PRs, even the non-technical stuff — out of Claude Code and the Claude app and into Slack. I've had entire weeks where I never opened Claude Code on my laptop. Here's a video walkthrough of how I've been using this in real life.

Nityesh

36,790 views • 4 months ago

Claude Code found every "vanishing" photo from Instagram and every "self-destructing" message from Telegram on my iPhone. both apps promise the content disappears after you view it. neither one actually deletes it. i plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run the same backup audit from my last post. Claude Code flagged two folders i had no idea existed. the first one was Instagram. a cache directory with every single photo and video anyone ever sent me in vanish mode. every "this will disappear after you close the chat" photo from the last 2 years. 11,400 files. all still there. all viewable. the second one was Telegram. every self-destruct photo. every secret chat image with a timer on it. every video someone sent me that said "this message will self-destruct in 10 seconds." 3,700 files going back to 2022. not one of them actually self-destructed. what was in those folders: → vanish mode photos from my ex that were supposed to disappear the second i closed the chat → self-destruct videos from a friend that had a 5 second timer on them → photos i received and never even opened that still got cached → voice messages from Telegram secret chats set to auto-delete after 30 seconds 15,100 files in total across both apps. every single one was supposed to be gone forever. the apps remove the message from your chat. your phone keeps the file. any app with file access can read it. i checked my permissions. 31 apps with Files and Folders access. weather apps. QR scanners. free PDF readers. a calculator app i downloaded in 2021. any one of them could have been looking at every "disappeared" photo i ever received this entire time. the check takes 2 minutes: step 1 → plug your iPhone into your Mac → run a backup step 2 → paste the prompt from the first reply into Claude Code step 3 → it scans every cached file that should have been deleted → shows you the total count by app step 4 → go to Settings → Privacy & Security → Files & Folders → revoke access from every app you don't use daily i went from 31 apps to 4 in two minutes. and if you ever sent a vanish mode photo to someone else → their phone cached it too. there is no disappearing message. there never was. save the prompt. check it today not tomorrow.

starmex

216,003 views • 20 days ago