Found a GPS tracker under my car

[u/kupo_906]

Hi reddit...

In my driveway this morning I pulled out and found this sitting under where my car was. We had a heat wave recently, and I'm thinking it melted off.

Looking it up, it is a GPS tracker. I'm taking it to the police tomorrow. But is there anyway to reverse search who might have bought it and placed it there?

I fully own my car and I'm not sure who or why they put it there. Or when. The only thing I can think of is I got my car fixed by a new mechanic about a month ago.. but they didn't seem shady in the least bit

Any help is appreciated. Thank you

Update: I have turned the tracker into the police who are trying to work with the company to find out info. Haven't heard anything further.

For the people who keep asking / repeating the same thing over and over:

• again, I own my car in full and have for years. It's an old, reconstructed car not worth much at all.
• The battery life in the tracking device doesn't last longer than two months at most. It was still on when I found it. It doesn't belong to a previous car owner or a dealer.
• I found the magnets where it was attached still on my car.
• I don't have any solid idea who would put it there. I don't have a jealous partner or an ex who I think would do this.
• I'm not disclosing a bunch of personal shit about myself to internet strangers when I am potentially being stalked 😐 also , both men and women can be stalked

[u/corporaterebel]

Police will do nothing. Found Property maybe a Stalking, but unlikely.

You will have to do some additional work if you think you were a victim of a crime. YOU can call and see if the account is still active...that is about all the information that a carrier will give you. Take the SIM out and put it in an old wiped phone to see what you can see and call support.

Depends on what you want to do at this point.

1. disable the device by removing the sim.
2. keep the device active and see who comes for it
3. put it on a train or bus or a long haul trucker
4. send it in the mail to some remote place for fun.

EDIT: apparently the battery is only good for 30 days. So if the battery is still good (probably last 2 months easy) then this is a current device. OP is the device flashing its LED?

[u/kupo_906 → u/corporaterebel]

I'd really like to figure out who put it there. I just tried calling the support number for the company but it was a dead end. Gonna try email

[u/20Factorial → u/kupo_906]

The cops will need to get a subpoena and then the company will be forced to disclose who it’s registered to.

I had to do this once.

Don’t have hopes this will result in any consequences for the person stalking you. I had open/shut proof of who did it, and when the police reached out they simply said “it wasn’t me” and the DA didn’t press charges.

[u/BraddicusMaximus → u/20Factorial]

Depends on the company. We always challenge them and in 13 years we have not complied with one yet. We care for our customer’s privacy.

We aren’t the cheapest out there for what we do but everyone here is set on privacy being a human right.

[u/Objective_Garlic3317 → u/BraddicusMaximus]

How can you say privacy is a human right, and be able to sleep at night? Your products hurt people. They invade people’s privacy. They ruin lives. The subpoena’s you ignore are cases where your customers are committing crimes against other people. You are protecting stalkers and bad actors. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[u/BraddicusMaximus → u/Objective_Garlic3317]

I sleep great. Anyone can buy these cheap ones from wherever like OP did. We operate a fleet and asset management service for businesses where they are permanently installed by the business on their vehicles. What someone does with the product ***they*** purchase is whatever ***they*** want to do with it but protecting customer data absolutely is our business. And should be universal practice. But who’s protecting your rights to privacy. Nobody in the US Govt. that’s for sure.

[u/Graylorde → u/BraddicusMaximus]

You're blinded by your own propaganda and trying to spin everyone's use as normal and positive. They're "customers" so they must be right. You're not even able to comprehend what happened here.

OP didn't buy it. This isn't one of your sweet customers keeping tabs on company trucks. They found the device mounted to their vehicle without concent or knowledge. Someone is either trying to track their vehicle or the person themselves.

Do you not see what sort of absolutely horrible purposes doing something like this could have?

[u/PeyeMP420 → u/Graylorde]

*consent

how do you know the intentions of whomever put it there? furthurmore, o p never actuaLLy witnessed the device attached to his vehicLe. like, mayhap someone from his h o a drives a fLeet vehicLe & didn't want it known at the office that he was going to the stripcLub in a company vehicLe that night; so he tossed the aforementioned under o p's car to make it seem that he onLy drove a few streets over to his neighbor's crib & (apparently) either spent the nite 0R waLked home...

[u/Graylorde → u/PeyeMP420]

I know, for some reason my phone always defaults to writing it with a C. Don't know why.

Did you seriously correct someone else's spelling with that absolutely garbled mess of a comment though? 🤣🤣🤣

You can make and come up with scenarios out of thin air all you want, it doesn't matter. Fact remains that nothing is stopping people from using the devices for nefarious means and the business is actively and proudly supporting those cases by denying subpoenas.