BS: Disabling stolen mobiles

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: open mike
Date: 09 Oct 03 - 01:04 AM

is that what the hash was?
I thought it was a controlled substance..
we call that tic-tac-toe thingy "pound"

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: PageOfCups
Date: 08 Oct 03 - 05:08 PM

Nutty said:
>> If you dial ... star/hash/06/hash .... you will see a 17 digit number , this is the identification (IMEI) number of the phone .<<

Didn't work with my phone. Lil' ol' Sanyo just stared up and me with a *#06# look on his face. I hit "talk" and some nice lady came on and said my number was incorrect.

PoC

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:15 PM

I told an interesting (I think) story about a stolen phone in this old thread called BS: Stupid things said to you at work.

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Amos
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:52 PM

The cell-service provider can identify the account from the subscriber name and suspend the service to that phone (as long as it has the subscriber's chip in it) when asked to. The critical bit is the chip which is the part that is personalized.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Gareth
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:46 PM

It was Nutty butty, and is !!!

As one who is constantly being told that english is not a true toungue I thought I had better clarrify that. B4 an Ulster/Hul9 catter posted complaining that his mobile had been nicked on his way home from the pub, and the 'Erberts had not switched it off.

Gareth

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: nutty
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 12:04 PM

I really should give myself time to wake up in the morning before I try to do anything that requires a modicum of intelligence.

Yes Gareth, I did mean that you should find the number and note it down. If everyone did it then there would be no use in stealing them (I was thinking particularly of the consequences of phones being stolen from children).

Bill .. I assumed that, as many phone manufacturers are international, the same trick would work wherever you lived.

Dave the paper said 17 numbers .. I never bothered to count them but presumably 15 will work just as well

Just thought it was a really good idea

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: GUEST,pdq
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:50 AM

...mobile is in alabama and you can steal it anytime ya want...no one would mis it...BTW, did you know that the man who designed the Batmobile also did the truck for the Beverly Hilbillies...er, OK, i'm going...

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:41 AM

How come mine is only 15? Are they short changing us gnomes again:(

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Gareth
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:22 AM

Errr ? Let's have that again ?

If your Mobile is stolen you can dial Star hash etc to retrieve the indentification number and stop the phone beng used ?

I think, Nutty, yer ment note your PI no down somewhere !!

Gareth ****BG****

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Rapparee
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:08 AM

Gee, I thought it was about things like this. But then, who'd dare steal it????

Subject: RE: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: Bill D
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:39 AM

well, golly!...I opened this thread expecting to see a way to keep something like this from turning after it had been detached from the ceiling...

We really need to choose less ambiguous words & phrases for stuff *grin*...and to note in thread titles whether it is UK/USA/OZ etc., specific.

It IS good advice, though, and I think I will see if the equivilent trick exists in the US.

Subject: BS: Disabling stolen mobiles
From: nutty
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 04:16 AM

Stealing mobiles is a rapidly expandng crime but it could be curtailed if the mobile, once stolen, was rendered useless by being disabled.

This is , apparently a very simple solution as even if you have long since lost your phones details they can be retrieved from the phone itself.

The following advice was posted in an English provincial newspaper...

If you dial ... star/hash/06/hash .... you will see a 17 digit number , this is the identification (IMEI) number of the phone . If you then contact your network provider with that number, the phone can be disabled and made absolutely useless.