Found Blackberry can I use it?

JPS29

Mr_Warren wrote: »

Daughter had used my car to transport friends around. Friends were asked and none claimed the phone. What would you have done in such a case?

Rang the last dialled number and told them you had found their "friend/relative/assosciates phone"
looked through contacts for "HOME, MUM/DAD etc"
Looked through msgs for [STRIKE]saucy pics[/STRIKE] messages from OH and rang them.

nicolax

if it was handed to the police they should have had a record of its details, report number possibly
may be worth giving the network a call - the worst they can say is no, least youve given it a try

grumbler

Jon_01 wrote: »

... it belongs to the insurance company that paid out on to to the owner for a new one.

How can you be that sure that all the phones are insured? For many years I had expensive phones and IMHO mobile insurance is usually a waste of money.

Mr_Warren_2

JPS29 wrote: »

Rang the last dialled number and told them you had found their "friend/relative/assosciates phone"
looked through contacts for "HOME, MUM/DAD etc"
Looked through msgs for [STRIKE]saucy pics[/STRIKE] messages from OH and rang them.

Tried that too.....but there was a password to get access to those numbers.

Jon_01

gjchester wrote: »

How would that stand in the light that the OP handed it to the police who then handed it back after it was unclaimed. You would hope that the police log the IMEI agains the lost / stolen database and someone, police or insurace firm, should have got a match.

The OP has tried to reunite it with the owner and the police have now release it to him as unclaimed, AIUI it's now his in the eyes of the law.

Mind you theres also the case that the phone may have contained personal data and should have been retained by the police for that reason too..

I'm not saying that they'd take action against the op, as you say its logged that he handed it to the police.

I 'thought' that the police had stopped handing back mobiles, they're nearly always blacklisted so there's no point
I have feeling that it's just cheaper for the force to hand it back rather than trying to return it to the network or the insurer...