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« on: September 16, 2020, 12:37:16 PM »

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-54157459

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A Malaysian man says he found monkey selfies and videos on his missing phone a day after retrieving it in the jungle behind his house.

The content - including footage of a monkey that appears to be trying to eat the phone - has been widely shared on social media since Zackrydz Rodzi posted it on Twitter.

The student said he thought his phone had been stolen while he was sleeping.
But it remained unclear exactly how the mobile went missing.

It was also not possible to verify the circumstances in which the photos and videos ended up on his phone.

Mr Zackrydz, 20, told the BBC he realised his smartphone was gone when he woke up at around 11am on Saturday morning.

"There was no sign of robbery. The only thing on my mind was is it some kind of sorcery," said the final year computer science student from Batu Pahat in the southern state of Johor.

A few hours later, in a video shared with the BBC that was time-coded 2.01pm that same day, a monkey appeared to be trying to eat the phone. The primate can be seen staring down the camera against a backdrop of bright green leaves and crowing birds.

There were also a series of photos of the monkey, trees and other foliage on the phone.
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« Reply #1 on: September 17, 2020, 06:21:05 PM »

Didn't this already happen a few years ago?
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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2020, 02:45:57 PM »

Monkeys are trained in Indonesia and Malaysia to steal your sunglasses and the climb a tree.

Then a guy magically appears and asks you for $5 to get your sunglasses back.

Clearly, there has been a technology upgrade to this scam.
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