If your mobile is stolen - Tip

johndp


Joined: 08/09/2009
Posts: 497

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 00:01

How to disable a STOLEN mobile phone?

To check your Mobile phone's serial number,key in the following digits on your phone: * # 0 6 #



A 15 digit code will appear on the screen.



This number is unique to your handset.



Write it down and keep it somewhere safe.



When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.



They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.



You probably won't get your phone back,but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either.



If everybody does this, there would be no point in people stealing mobile phones.



I took this tip from the http://www.glencoecyprus.com forum and there are more like it on the welcome thread, good advice

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 00:11

Great post, if it works that is??

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 00:18

My understanding is that the mobile company knows every time the telephone you are using. Hence when you report the theft to the police, the police can ask the mobile company to let them know which phone numbers are called after the theft by the stolen telephone and thus by contacting these people they can easily catch the thief.

ismet

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 07:05

'When your phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code.'



That one made me laugh. I wonder why?

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 07:42

The IMEI (The International Mobile Equipment Identity) number is normally printed on the label on the outside of the box it came in... if you didn't buy a stolen one that is!

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 07:43

Oh and although this would stop the phone being used in the country of purchase it does not stop it from being used abroad. :(

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 08:34

the tips put on the forum advertised - are myths



putting your PIN number in backwards calls the police - how about 888: 1221: 2332:



Opening your car with your mobile phone if someone at home clicks the controller down the phone



I dont think so they are well known email scams - good as they sound they dont work

billybob


Joined: 29/03/2008
Posts: 576

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 09:22

Have to disagree with you Sienna some DO work lol

Try the 112 one even when the fone is locked i did and it worked and the 1 put on here does work, obviously Johndp picked the one that he tried just like me with the 112

so out of all crap spoken some enlightenment cometh lol eh

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 09:41

Msg 7: 'Opening your car with your mobile phone if someone at home clicks the controller down the phone'





I tried it here with a GAU student - it worked for us after two or three attempts, although we tried at a distance of about 300 metres. The car was a Daihatsu.

Lazy days


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 847

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 09:41

AJ that made me laugh as well )))

And I have to agree with Sienna but unfortunately she didn't read the one she picked out properly or she may have spotted something lol

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 10:20

there's a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow too ! enjoy your day everyone

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 10:48

Strange you never see Lazy days or johndp post on the Glencoe forum yet they plug this forum all of the time . Mmmmmmm very odd !!

Lazy days


Joined: 24/07/2008
Posts: 847

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 11:14

Pipie you know full well that I moderate on the http://www.glencoecyprus.com forum and I have publicly stated on here in the past that I never post on it, so please get off your high horse and do try to act sensibly for once.



You have several aliases as we all know and post under a different one on that board, pretending to be your daughter, but thats OK isn't it.



Your time would maybe be better spent trying to repair the damage you have caused, not only to your investment but to others as well, you are such a pillar of the community aren't you ?



You who tells everyone to stick to the topic, one rule for you and one for everybody else Hmmmmm

hodgeliz


Joined: 16/10/2010
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 11:37

Pipie

people in glass houses !!! tut tut



Ihave just joined both forums and find them both informative.

hodgeliz


Joined: 16/10/2010
Posts: 278

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 11:40

Sorry to stick to topic I should have added that the tip about the low battery works as well, as does the one about the locked phone



By the way I used to work in the Bulls Head lol

JohnW


Joined: 23/04/2009
Posts: 601

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 11:52

We had a mobile stolen here. We reported it to the police. They informed Turkcell. The first time it was used (with a new sim)Turkcell informed the police. The police phoned the "user" and told him to report to Girne police station at once. He came within the hour saying he had bought it in a bar from someone he didn't know. So we got the phone back in a couple of days.

Pipie


Joined: 05/01/2008
Posts: 5499

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:07

johnW



That was a brilliant the way you managed to get your phone back !! Well done TRNC police .

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 17:23

On a tangent, Christmas Day (UK) gets the most dialed 999 calls as it's the only number which works on uncredited/locked mobile phones as recipients of such presents want to see if their new fandangled machine works!



Richard

AlsancakJack



Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 5762

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:26

Here we go again.

No personal slagging matches or the members concerned will be banned.

Read the mission statement on the login page and read the rules.

No other warnings will be given.

AJ

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
28/10/2010 19:58

I agree, I did read it wrong , if it works it will be brilliant I admit didnt see the#......... here we go apologies - message 21 do agree with that one move on !

johndp


Joined: 08/09/2009
Posts: 497

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 10:35

Well done Sienna, but theres posts missing from this thread as well i think cos you say mess 21 and its gone lol

sienna


Joined: 09/01/2009
Posts: 1627

Message Posted:
29/10/2010 10:48

they have gone - perhaps deleted because I think AJ and everyone else are done with derogatory comments so therefore my reference to message 21 is now reference to message 19