Contract for a friend.

mickaveli2001

No no no....

You call up your network provider. You report the mobile as stolen and request blocking the sim, and sending YOU a new sim to carry out the remainder of your contract - which will only be £26 per month...

Then when that girl, you tried to get into her pants with a mobile for, tries to type on the phone, guess what? It won't work...

Don't be a mug twice and tell the network providers the truth. Just tell them that it's been stolen

iritchie

Yeah, agree with the sentiments already laid out here.
Cancel the phone / report it stolen immediately.
Get a replacement sim so you can at least take advantage of the contract YOU signed up to for however long it has remaining.

As for the catalogue, you didn't explain how she managed to run up £1000 worth of charges against it?
The credit was in your name and the items were ordered by her?
If so, then you at least have some comeback there, as you can claim they were ordered fraudulently / without your knowledge, assuming you were not so naive as to knowingly allow someone to run up £1000 credit in your name??

At the end of the day you can both be thankful that it wasn't already a whole lot worse and that you can nip it in the bud now and stop yourself getting any deeper into debt for items being enjoyed by someone else.

If they've left you high and dry, they were never a friend in the first place, so don't think twice about going the court route to reclaim the money for the phone charges.
If the contract was in your name, you also have the right to reclaim costs for the handset from this person, if you can't get the money back for the actual bills.

mickaveli2001

The guy clearly bent over backwards to get this mobile for a girl, and now he's paying the price for it. It would have been far cheaper and simpler to do the alternative

Reporting it stolen will show up in a different country too, but the longer he leaves it, the less likely he'll be able to make the operator legitimately believe that it has been stolen. They check records, and it's been getting used abroad for the past 2-3 months before reporting it will look suspicious

Ultrasonic

mickaveli2001 wrote: »

it's been getting used abroad for the past 2-3 months...

Where did you get that from? It's not in the OP. I'm also not sure about suggesting reporting the phone stolen when it clearly hasn't been - that sounds like fraud to me, and not worth adding that the the OP's problems.

19lottie82

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Where did you get that from? It's not in the OP. I'm also not sure about suggesting reporting the phone stolen when it clearly hasn't been - that sounds like fraud to me, and not worth adding that the the OP's problems.

I agree. best reporting it lost (from the date that you called)

d123

Ultrasonic wrote: »

Where did you get that from? It's not in the OP. I'm also not sure about suggesting reporting the phone stolen when it clearly hasn't been - that sounds like fraud to me, and not worth adding that the the OP's problems.

How can it be fraud? The OP is blacklisting his handset and suspending his simcard.

He is completely within his rights to do so. It's his contract and his handset that someone else is in possession of, that's all he has to tell the network and they will blacklist it for him.

Emy1501

d123 wrote: »

How can it be fraud? The OP is blacklisting his handset and suspending his simcard.

He is completely within his rights to do so. It's his contract and his handset that someone else is in possession of, that's all he has to tell the network and they will blacklist it for him.

Its fraud as the phone has not been stolen. The OP can ring up and ask for the sim to be blocked and a new one sent to him. He can't though say the phone was stolen as it was not.

Best he could probably do is say he lent it to a friend who has now refused to give it back and therefore he wants it blocked.

macman

OP, the phone contract is not 'only £26 per month'. It's unlimited, depending on what it's used for. £26 is the minimum charge! It could be used abroad on roaming and would cost you thousands per week. How naive can you be? Get it blocked today.

mickaveli2001

Terrible advise advise Emy

The question is Jamie... Do you want to continue paying a unknown and realistically high amount of money each month, or do you not???

If you do, then take Emy's advise and tell them the truth right down to the boxers you're wearing (they have lie detectors over the phone you know :rotfl: )

OR

You can call them up, inform them that the phone has been stolen because in essence it has. It has been taken out of the country and is being used to generate high bills through deliberate abuse. There is no fraud being committed because you are not "gaining" financially from it.. You are simply informing them of theft to block the phone, to send you a new sim, and so that you can continue on with your contract paying the agreed amount. Your choice.

As far as the catalogue. I'd call them up too and claim your account has been hacked and that you want to know where the items are going to and ask them to create a new account and place the existing balance onto that so that it prevent further abuse

Ultrasonic

mickaveli2001 wrote: »

It has been taken out of the country...

I bet the OP is long gone, but FWIW you don't know this is the case!