Fake Find my iPhone site

Hello,
I was robbed a couple weeks ago and I keep receiving a text message from different numbers with this text:
"Your iPhone 5S is powered on right now, to see its location please go to http://itracking.me/apple"
If you enter this site, it's pretty similar to iCloud's, but I'm not stupid, I know this is a way how these thiefers can access to your iCloud account and remove my iPhone from the system so they can sell it.
Do you guys think that they can unlock my iPhone? I hope they don't. My iPhone was locked with 4-digit password, fingerprint and "Find my iPhone" function was active. So far, my iPhone has not been connected to the internet.

Of course, what I first did was login using the Find my iPhone app on my iPad. The result is that my phone is still "offline"
I already call the police but I live in Colombia so it's pretty much worthless.
So far, they have my phone number (I don't know how... maybe if they managed to unlock the 4-digit password) and my email I believe it's because once I received a call from a guy who was (he told me) from the police and he told me that my iPhone was found. Then he asked for my icloud email and password. I gave the email but not the password. He told me that it was the only way for him to know that my iPhone was actually mine.
But i'm not stupid... he just wanted my password to login and delete my phone from the account.

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