Paying call charges for stolen Mobile phone.

Buzby

For EVERYONE with a mobile phone, STOP what you are doing, and activate a PIN Code for your SIM, if you don't know how - find out. The PIN will engage anytime the phone is powered down, or removed from the handset.

Whilst it won't stop unauthorised calls completely, it does render the SIM useless when the battery goes flat, or the thief powers it down by accident.

NFH

Buzby wrote: »

Whilst it won't stop unauthorised calls completely, it does render the SIM useless when the battery goes flat, or the thief powers it down by accident.

Or if the owner remotely wipes his iPhone as was the case here.

Networks in many other countries activate the PIN by default, which encourages you to change it. This was the case in the last two countries where I bought prepaid SIM cards.

zagfles

Buzby wrote: »

For EVERYONE with a mobile phone, STOP what you are doing, and activate a PIN Code for your SIM, if you don't know how - find out. The PIN will engage anytime the phone is powered down, or removed from the handset.

Whilst it won't stop unauthorised calls completely, it does render the SIM useless when the battery goes flat, or the thief powers it down by accident.

And put a PIN lock on the phone. A thief could run up a fortune in calls before the battery goes flat.

I keep telling people that having a contract phone without a PIN lock on the phone and SIM is as bad as writing your PIN numbers on your bank cards. A thief could probably spend more on a contract phone in a few hours than they could withdraw from an ATM with a stolen card.

grumbler

Locking the phone doesn't help much as the sim can be used in another phone.

zagfles

grumbler wrote: »

Locking the phone doesn't help much as the sim can be used in another phone.

Which is why you need a PIN on the SIM as said above!! As well as a PIN on the phone.

Techhead_2

skinnypigeons wrote: »

We don't have a landline and I've not seen a pay phone near here either

Apart from the one at the police station? Or take a detour on the way home? Or borrow a friends?

Verzweifelt

Hi How did you get on ? I have quiet a similar problem on a much higher scale. Let me know. Thanks