Woman issues warning when she finds a tracker in her purse after a night of partying
As we slowly transition back into our post-pandemic “normal”, we’ll eventually go back to meeting friends, going to parties, and having night-outs.
But these activities that we once enjoyed bring a kind of danger on their own, just like in this story from a Texas-based TikToker.
In a video that has been viewed over 900,000 times, Sheridan Ellis, known by her TikTok handle @sheridanellis, shared how a suspicious device ended up in her purse.
In the clip, she shared:
“This weekend on Saturday I went to dinner with a group of friends for this girl’s birthday. If you know me, I don’t normally carry a purse, but on Saturday I did because we had decorations and stuff for the table.”
Just like her, most of us only bring the essentials on our person whenever we’re anticipating a crazy night out.
It prevents us from losing things that we don’t intend to lose, or save things we don’t want to get broken.
But in Ellis’s case, she ended up with something she never brought with her in the first place.
In the video, she showed her followers a small square device.
“At the end of the night, I’m cleaning my purse out and I find this. If you don’t know what this is, it’s a Tile. It’s basically a tracker, people put it on their keys and whatnot.”
Tiles are tracker devices that are used for finding nearby items like keys, phone, wallets, or any important thing that’s hard to find whenever we’re running late.
The Tile app can help you locate these things – as long as they’re within range – by ringing them.
If the items are out of range, then the app will show you the item’s last known location.
Amazon explained to Newsweek that Tile uses Bluetooth.
They also added that location sharing in the network that Tile uses is disabled by default. Customers are also asked separately if they want to use the location sharing function.
As for Ellis, it’s still pretty strange to find a tracking device inside your bag after a long night of partying. For precaution, she even removed the batteries to make sure that the device is totally turned off.
Luckily, Ellis found the device before she got home.
She also made sure that the Tile didn’t belong to anyone at the birthday dinner she attended.
Ellis shared that she hasn’t reported the incident to the police because she doesn’t know specifically when the Tile was placed inside her bag and she’s afraid to put the battery back in. The video she posted was made as a warning to others, just in case, a similar thing happened to them.
Some of her followers even offered their advice, like setting up a sting operation.
Others also offered advice that police can find out who purchased the tile and to which downloaded app it’s registered to.
Even if the case was not reported, it is still frightening to find a tracker inside your bag. The idea of letting the perpetrators know where you are can lead to different kinds of danger.
In the video, Ellis insisted on everyone safety:
“It’s not mine, I don’t know how it got in my purse. I immediately took the battery out, don’t worry but yeah… Check your purses and stay safe out there.”
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Source: CNET via YouTube, sheridanellis via TikTok, Newsweek, NYPost