Ex-partner mobile phone contract

Jenni_D

ItsComingRome said:

aclark2021 said:

Jenni_D said:

Do you have the IMEI number for the phone?

Don’t know, will have to check but I don’t think we have it

Falsely stating the phone was lost or stolen could come back to bite you.  Just ask for a new SIM.

In what way? (Genuine question).

In some respects the account has effectively been stolen - disabling the phone could be one way to limit the impact. Which leads to a related question - was the phone purchased as part of the account (i.e. it is being paid for via the monthly payments), or was it a separate purchase and the account is for the SIM alone? If the former then the phone technically belongs to the account holder, so they'd be within their rights to disable it.

ItsComingRome

Jenni_D said:

ItsComingRome said:

aclark2021 said:

Jenni_D said:

Do you have the IMEI number for the phone?

Don’t know, will have to check but I don’t think we have it

Falsely stating the phone was lost or stolen could come back to bite you.  Just ask for a new SIM.

In what way? (Genuine question).

In some respects the account has effectively been stolen - disabling the phone could be one way to limit the impact. Which leads to a related question - was the phone purchased as part of the account (i.e. it is being paid for via the monthly payments), or was it a separate purchase and the account is for the SIM alone? If the former then the phone technically belongs to the account holder, so they'd be within their rights to disable it.

Because it's fraud.

The account holder willingly gave the phone to the person who now has it.  It's a matter of fact that it was neither lost nor stolen.

Jenni_D

Sorry but that doesn't answer the question ... It might be a morally-questionable act to do, but if the phone was gifted then it's not in any way fraud - it's withdrawal of a gift.

So I ask again, HOW would it come back to bite someone who did that?