A woman has warned her followers after a concerning five-word notification popped up on her iPhone.

The TikToker, who goes by the handle @bikerxbaddie on the platform, shared her experience in a video, revealing that a strange message on her phone suggested that her location was being tracked by an unknown device.

She wrote in the overlay text: "I think I'm being tracked: women beware" and explained in the clip: "I am going to tell you guys what has been happening since last night at around 11.30PM.

"I don’t know if I am in danger or other people are in danger."

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The woman believes that the device could have been planted on her after she went into a Walmart store in Texas before she flew to Maine.

Speaking to the camera, the TikToker revealed that she was at Boston Logan International Airport retrieving her belongings when she received a notification that read: "Unknown accessory detected near you."

"It was first seen with me at 8.45 in the morning when I was in Texas at Walmart, on the other side of the country. There is an option for me to remove the device," she said, showing another screenshot that stated: "Find my unavailable. Unable to connect to server. Please try again later," which means "it won’t let [her] disconnect the device".

The woman said her phone did give her a small notification at the bottom which asked her to contact local law enforcement "if you feel your safety is at risk due to this item," but she would need the serial number of the device tracking her for police to shut off the device.

She then shared two additional screenshots, one that she received at 12.56AM that claimed that the "owner of the device can see [her] location," and another that displayed a "red dot every time they physically checked my location".

Feeling spooked out by the ordeal, the TikToker looked through all her items and car to locate any device that could resemble a tracker but was unable to do so. She also said that she had heard of a similar issue that occurs with AirPods, but revealed that she did not have hers when she was at Walmart in Texas.

The TikToker revealed that she shut off her location and Bluetooth services after receiving the alarming message, but the problem continued.

"Then I literally just got this notification saying that the owner can see my location again, and when I check it the owner did just check my location again," she told her followers. "So should I go to the police or the Apple store? Because I can’t find the device."

She disclosed that her friend's sister experienced a similar incident. In their case, they found an Apple AirTag hidden under their car’s license plate.

"I don’t know if this is the new sex trafficking method. But please look out for your loved ones. Be extra careful and search your belongings if you get these notifications," she concluded.

This particular problem seems to persist with many iPhone users as one person shared on the Apple community page: "While I was traveling by car, alone, on Friday night I got a notification 'Unknown Accessory Detected - This item has been moving with you for a while. The owner can see its location.'

"When I clicked through, it said 'Your current location can be seen by the owner of this item,'" they continued. "It followed me across the state and into the next state."

The person was "creeped out" by the message and managed to disable it. "Is there anything else that could give this 'unknown accessory detected' notification?" they questioned.

"This felt invasive and creepy. I really don't want it to happen again, I'd rather just get it figured out, rather than wait to get another weird notification," they added.

Back in 2021, Apple said in a statement to Engadget that AirTags - which are a small product that helps people track their belongings - had been updated to address privacy concerns.

"Following up on our commitment to continue to improve AirTag’s privacy and security, starting today we will be updating the time period after which an AirTag that is separated from its owner will play a sound when moved," they added, according to The Independent.

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A mechanic has gone viral on social media this week after discovering something sinister in a customer's car.

He decided to film  his investigation after a woman came into his auto repair shop, fearing she was being stalked by an ex-partner.

The mechanic agreed to take a look under the hood to see if anything was amiss – and he was shocked by what he found.

"So a customer is scared there’s a tracker in her vehicle from a crazy ex-boyfriend," the mechanic can be heard stating in the video, which was shared on TikTok by a user with the handle @kaos_noe.

Just seconds afterwards, the mechanic can be heard exclaiming in surprise: "What the heck?"

After taking a look underneath the car, the mechanic got a nasty shock when he found a strange black device stuck to the bottom of it.

The mechanic then scans the QR code on the device before looking up the number online; learning that the mysterious machine is actually a tracking device linked to someone's phone – presumably a phone belonging to the ex-boyfriend the customer believed was stalking her.

Per The Daily Mirror, the video has accrued over a million views from terrified social media users as of the time of writing, with a number of commenters thanking the mechanic for listening to the woman and taking her stalking claims seriously.

Per The Mirror, one commenter wrote: "Thank you for checking and not blowing it off. You might have saved her life."

Meanwhile, someone else commented: "I'm glad you found it, but never second guess a woman who suspects safety issues around an ex until it is proved safe beyond a shadow of a doubt."

Finally, a third person added: "Thank you for actually checking vs assuming she's crazy. [sic]"

However, this isn't the first time that a mechanic has managed to go viral. Take a look at this piece we penned all about the mechanic who was fired after her bosses caught her coworkers watching her OnlyFans content.

A woman has been told by fellow social media users to seek help after sharing a concerning video online of a bizarre symbol she found outside her home.

Taking to TikTok to share the clip, user '@bby.jade__' captioned her post "What does this mean?"

In the video, the woman can be seen walking outside of her home, explaining that she had previously gone to throw out her garbage earlier that morning. However, when she reached her garbage container, she found that somebody had scrawled "1F" on top of it in the snow.

Concerned, she went to social media for answers, but many TikTok users were quick to inform her that she needed to contact the police and seek help after revealing the alleged meaning behind the symbol.

After raking up over 6.6 million views, people were quick to leave the woman advice in the comments section.

"It means: 1 female," one person wrote. "They are telling the people who are supposed to rob you or whatever, that you live alone."

Another user wrote: "stay safe contact the police it means 1 female to [people] who are planning to rob you [sic]".

This advice was echoed by another social media user, who wrote: "1F means one female, ur being targeted, so what u need to do is put fresh snow on the lid and write '3M' on it which means 3 males so its less likely [sic".

In response to her video going viral and the comments it received, the woman later posted an update in the comments section, writing: "IM SAFE! I stayed at a hotel it's now 1am I'll update when I wake up. My dad will be coming to town and staying with me for a few days!"

She later wrote: "I called the cops. I left with my mom. I whipped it off. I'm getting cameras! I'm doing everything I can!"

In a series of follow-up videos, the woman says that she had officers come round to her property,  but there was little they could do. She is now staying with her mom for a few days.

She reassured those following her story that she is doing "fine", and when she returns home, she won't be going alone.

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A TikTok user known for documenting her progress leading up to a half-marathon shared a chilling video that showed her being followed by a man in a car during one of her runs - once again bringing the importance of women's safety into the spotlight.

Samantha McIntyre is no stranger to posting on the video-sharing platform, regularly keeping her followers up-to-date on how her journey to running a half-marathon is progressing to her 318,000 followers. This run, however, was different than usual - with the experience making her "really nervous."

In the viral video - which has over two million likes - the 24-year-old notices the same red truck passing her multiple times.

"There's this guy in a red car that's driven by me twice, and every time he drives by me he has his arm out the window and he's, like, looking behind when he's driving by... it's making me really nervous," she says in the video, halfway through her run.

"I haven't seen him in 10 minutes, but I don't know if I'm being paranoid. Just documenting this, just in case," she adds.

Following this, McIntyre describes the model and make of the car. In the next clip, she says that the car is parked up ahead of the track, which made her "nervous" - especially as she says in the video that she needs to pass the suspicious driver on the way back to her own vehicle.

McIntyre shows viewers a small clip of the car parked under a tree in the distance, before stating: "It's just one of those things where you think it's not going to happen to you [...] I don't want to risk anything."

She then ends up calling her parents to come and pick her up, crying to the camera and sobbing: "I don't know what to do."

Upon seeing the car beginning to pull out of its parked position, the fast-thinking woman runs to a nearby house and asks the owners if she can wait in their yard for her parents. Police located the man but no charges against him have been filed.

This situation is all too familiar with most women, who always have to be cautious and hyper-aware of their surroundings when going out alone, regardless of the time of day.

Some men have even joked about stalking women as "harmless psychological fun," with one person posting on an old Reddit thread that they liked to stalk women to deliberately scare them - despite not wishing to harm them.

"The feeling when you follow a girl and she notices you, and she tries to [lose] you or picks up the pace. That is kind of a good feeling. You become important to her. You are no longer some random insignificant face in the crowd [...] If you know your limits and don't actually harass - let alone rape - that girl, it should be harmless psychological fun," the post read.

McIntyre's video serves as a stark reminder to all women to trust their gut feeling - especially as her frightening experience came weeks after 34-year-old Eliza Fletcher, from Memphis, Tennessee, was kidnapped and murdered while on a morning jog, TODAY reported.

"Please be aware of your surroundings when you are going on runs. Carry protection with you, just be safe. If you have a gut feeling that something doesn't feel right please go with that gut feeling," McIntyre added at the end of her video.

While the ideal situation would be that women wouldn't have to constantly be super vigilant as soon as they leave the safety and comfort of their homes, the current world we all live in still requires us to do this. After all, it's better to be safe than sorry.

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A TikToker has issued a terrifying warning to female drivers after a woman found a bottle of water deliberately left on her car.

Haley West, the woman at the center of the incident, took to TikTok to share the sinister story. She said that a man had followed her to her car, and initially pretended the car was his before leaving a water bottle on the roof.

While still in the parking lot where the encounter occurred, she explained in a video: "I'm literally shaking right now the weirdest s**t just happened to me. I'm leaving Fresh Thyme and I'm parked in this big parking lot.

"This guy was walking like kind of close to me, kind of not, but you could tell he was like staring at me while he was walking, and he yells over to me like 'hey what's your name?' and I just ignored him and I kept walking and he just kept following me.

"This man walks right up to my car and he's like, 'come check out my car it's nice it's a Lexus, you like it?' Like it's my car, though I didn't react to that because that would have given away that it's my car, although I think he already knows."

Wary of the man, Haley decided against getting in the car right away and crossed the street to get help.

When the man finally left, Haley returned to her car but noticed something strange.

Haley said: "When I came back out here there was a water bottle on my hood. I don't want that to correlate but that's never happened to me. I just wanted to say be aware of your surroundings at all times, especially if you're a woman, be careful out there."

When the video – which currently has 1.5 million views – went viral, another TikToker named Elle did a video response about the water bottle and her take on why the man may have placed the item on Haley's car.

Elle said: "[Haley] was followed by a man and then when she came back to her vehicle after seeking out help a water bottle was left on the hood of her car. This is a tactic used by traffickers and kidnappers to get you to exit your vehicle and take whatever is on top of the car.

"If you have this happen and something is on the hood of your car when you come back to it, leave it there, drive away it'll fall off on its own."

She also said that if you feel "extremely threatened" you should go to the police or a car shop so they can check the vehicle for GPS trackers.

Elle explained: "GPS trackers can be put on the bottom of your car and they can give off your location for a certain amount of time. Traffickers don't care how old you are, they don't care what you're wearing they don't care about your size, if they want you, they'll try to get you.

"Always be aware of your surroundings, try to go shop with a friend I know it's hard during Covid, keep pepper spray or protective device on you. Please stay safe."