iPhone stolen and disappeared in "Find My Phone"
Unfortunately my wife's phone got stolen on Wednesday night. I logged into her iCloud account by "Find My Phone" but it had been turned off and could not track the location. Then I locked it remotely. Later it appeared for a while in another district but soon became offline again. The police said unless we could keep tracking the location, the past location did not provide much value.
She bought a new iPhone 6 last night and restore it from the iCloud backup. This morning I checked "Fine My Phone" again but found nothing new (the stolen phone still offline), and then I sent the remote wipe instruction on next time it connects to Internet.
Here is the weird part:
My wife got an SMS this morning from "info.imessage.id@icloud.com" with the message below:
"Dear XXX (my wife's name),
Lost mode iPhone has been found now.
OS: iOS 8.2
If you want to get more information, please go to http://page-icloud.com/?token=492d878a-8
Thanks
Apple Support"
By instinct I suspected it could be a phishing address. However, after I googled it for a while, there was nothing mentioned about this "page-icloud.com", and when I visited this address, it was basically pointed to "icloud.com" (I tried the exact link with a wrong password but it did have background validation). Then I decided to give it a go. After logging into this address, it brought me to "Fine My Phone" and I could see the real time location of my wife's newly bought iPhone 6. However, I could not see other devices any more. There used to be the stolen phone (offline though) and my wife's old iPhone 4S, but now only the new phone can be seen.
Does any one have any idea about why the device list of "Find My Phone" got cleared? Or did any one receive the similar SMS about "page-icloud.com" and had a proof that it was a phishing address (or something that can trigger the removal on device records)?
Even that thief was captured by CCTV, there is little hope for the police to catch him or get our phone back. And now the weird device record lost in "Find My Phone"...... This is so frustrating...
Appreciate your ideas. Thanks.
BR,
Richard