This time it's from a person who says they bought it on Facebook. It was listed as a Pixel 6 Pro without a box on the internet. It's not aPixel 6 Pro.
Even by the standards of thePixel phones, this is a strange leak. It is the second time in a week that a prototype of thePixel 7 Pro has appeared. If you didn't watch episode one of this saga, someone listed a prototype of a new phone on eBay. The reflection on the phone's glossy back panel can be seen in the photos, which appear to have been taken with a prototype unit. The person who bought the 7 Pro prototype thinks his phone is the one he used to take the photos on.
The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro were pre-announced at the I/O keynote last month. They will probably make their debut in October with the new operating system. Confirmation that the phone is using a different modem than the one used in the Pixel 6 series and that it will come in a variant with a larger amount of storage and RAM isn't much more than that.
It won't be much of a learning experience. The person who bought the phone said that it had been working fine until a few days ago when it seemed to have been wiped. If the phone went missing, there would be a safeguard in place for that, and that is unsurprising. It won't be long until we see another leak.