Just be careful for any messages saying, please send this text or authorisation number to this number to get your phone back. It’s all fake. There are many people reporting people trying to get into your iPhone with text messages to the original number or something.

here is a thread to see that people share experiences that their iPhones ends up back in China https://reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/vgfm6g/stolen_iphones_at_music_festivals_being_pinged/