Stolen Phone - £20 worth of calls made since reported!

Rikki

Contract phones used to be good when you could set a maximum monthly bill/call limit.

DonnyDave

skiddy2k wrote:

The numbers dialed were
tel. 00212 62 398710 & 0021265156747

Surprise, surprise, those numbers are mobile numbers. See here.

pufferfish_2

Rikki wrote:

if the phone is turned off and a new sim card used it will ask for the phone lock as well as their sim number. Making it totally useless.

Yes, in theory the phone is useless. In practice, however, someone determined can get the software and flash the phone, thus removing the phone lock. Such software is available on the web.

Pufferfish

skiddy2k

im thinking of making some use of the 02 sim cards that were available recently with a few quids worth of credit on there, to call this number at dodgy times of the day and claiming im 'interpol!-well, il contemplate about this one!

Skiddy,

ka7e

Sign them up to a premium text service!

skiddy2k

ka7e wrote:

Sign them up to a premium text service!

got any links?
sounds like an excellent idea!

ItsNotAboutMe

nice 1

keep it up

knuckledragger

Getting back to the IMEI business, if you give it to the police, they will put it on the MEND and immobilise.com databases. The police have access to these databases 24/7. If they stop an unsavoury character and are a bit sharp, they compare the displayed IMEI (*#06#) with that on the inside label on the phone. If they don't match then alarm bells ring. Also both IMEI can be searched, so even if the phone has been "chipped" (cracked, unblocked= identity changed) then there's still a good chance of nicking the bloke on the receiving end. It might be a disincentive to handle another hot phone...

lellie

That's nothing.. a friend left hers in a cinema - she was the last one out that night and the only other people to go in there were cleaners. They took her phone.. and used the phone to run up £300 worth of calls to india and pakistan mobiles and premium lines before she noticed it was gone.. she reported it in the morning when she noticed but it was too late. The next morning they called her to say "oh we've got your phone.. we work at the cinema come and get it" but she went to the cinema and they'd given her a false name.. the cinema are investigating their staff but it's just bizarre..

jockettuk

one reason i dont have a contract phone.. i will stick with the pay as you go ..