Found lost iPhone scam

My daughter dropped her Iphone earlier. The phone is locked with a 4 digit code.

The sim card and the phone (its IMEI) reported stolen and are blocked by the operator.

A few weeks back it started to receive text messages that her lost phone had been found and she was invited to follow a link. A link that leads to a phishing site. She didn't click here.

These days she's been doing e-mail messages saying the same thing: his lost phone have found strange links.

Text messages, I can understand because they can found his phone number of the sim card (she got a new sim card to the operator using the same number today), but how can they know his email? His AppleID?

It makes me really worried if they managed to get to the phone somehow.

The phone as reported as stolen to the Police

The phone is blocked and locked by the operator

The phone has been defined as lost and we also click content thingie erase icloud (not sure that it worked well)

We changed all the passwords (AppleID, e-mail, etc.)

The phone has been removed completely to iCloud

Is there something else we should / can do? Can stop us these scam messages to enter?

If, during the period between when the phone has been lost/stolen and you reported, the unbelievers could use Siri to find information. If Siri were not off on the lock screen, what they should have done is call Siri and ask the phone belonged to. If your daughter kept its own information of contact in the phone, as do many people, they could have accessed.

It seems that if you took all the right steps. There is really no way to prevent people to continue to send you emails scam. Treat them as you would any other spam.

Good luck.

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