Someone took my phone :(

Luluznewz · Feb 10, 2010

hey,

I guess I just needed to whine. I was in my Lab (im a college student) today and someone stole my Iphone out of my backpack. I know I had it when I walked into the room, and when I left it was gone.

There are only like 20 people who had access to the lab at that time. I would consider myself on good terms with them all. This just proves you really cant trust anyone.

I'm really upset. I use that phone kinda all day every day. Its my planner, alarm clock, calender, email access. Everything. It also had many many passwords saved in its memory, so I have to go though and change everything. It was hooked up to my bank account updates, so i have to change that.

I'm so mad that I know that one out of about 10 people took it, but there is no way to get it back. people really suck sometimes.

bengal77 · Feb 10, 2010

Yuck, people suck. I once had an expensive umbrella stolen during intermission at the ballet. All kinds of people steal, even classmates that you kind of sort of know. *hugs*

pla725 · Feb 10, 2010

Contact your provider and see if they can track it down for you? Is it GSP enabled? Also notify campus police. Do you have insurance on the phone?

Raspberry82 · Feb 11, 2010

Oh wow, I'm sorry. Did you leave your backpack unattended? People can be terrible. I guess as awful as this is, it's a reminder to not take your eyes off your important stuff. I had a close scare like this with my purse at work a while ago. Scared the pants off of me. Maybe you could lock stuff up in your car or somewhere if you have to leave things unattended

. If you have insurance, it might cover theft.

NorthernAutumn · Feb 11, 2010

Me being the belligerent person I am, I would probably make a class announcement something along the lines of...

"My phone was stolen by someone in this room. I know who did it, and will be pressing full charges. However, if the person who took it drops it off at the college security office by tomorrow morning, I will forget the whole thing."

Sit back and see...

Either they call your bluff, and don't give it back, or you've scared the bejeebers out of them and it's waiting for you at the office.

ETA: OOH! THis should work!
From: http://blogote.com/2008/apple/apple-support/a-guide-to-recover-your-stolenlost-iphone.html

TIM says...
I got my iPhone back!! Here is the cold hard TRUTH! Forget all you have read and heard except http://www.rewardingreturn.com/ or a similar technology to encourage honesty through bribery because nothing else will work! Here is how I got my iPhone back â¦

Unless a reward that appears on the phone works nothing else will, here is why. My phone was stolen from me and the thief removed the Rogers (Canada) sim card (so my number was gone) he then installed a new sim card. He also did a device erase (too easy to do) so all the apps were gone. Rogers was told 15 minutes after it was gone that it was STOLEN. Rogers did not care â¦ they had a new customer and would sell me a new phone at FULL PRICE $699, that is ALL they would do even though they know it as put back on their network within 8 hours.

Call the police. Get a sympathetic officer who actually wants to do their job. Go to your iTunes and click on âpreferencesâ then âdevicesâ and rest your pointer on your device's last backup. Information will appear including the IMEI number. This number is golden as the police with this number and a call to the correct department of your cell provider can easily locate the phone and thief even with a device erase and new sim card installed. Rogers has a police only department for this that will NOT speak to you the rightful owner but if detailed information is required, Rogers requires a WARRANT. Rogers Law Enforcement Division (416)935-5300.

The police who picked up my phone would not lay charges but I did get my phone back a little worse for the ware.

Two last pieces of advice â¦ lock the phone and enable âerase if 10 bad passcode attemptsâ because ârestoreâ is amazing and restores EVERYTHING and no personal info has wound up in the wrong hands. Lastly write down the MAC address before you loose the phone as if is not in iTunes and it could possibly be used to locate it as well.

Tim
Ontario, Canada