Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief

Zone-MR writes "Last Saturday, MoDaCo (the world's largest smartphone community) held a get-together for their forum members. Unfortunately the positive community spirit was soured by an individual who decided to steal one of the charity raffle prizes - a C550 mobile phone. Check out the story of how we tracked the thief down, got the phone back, and secured the thief's place in the interweb's hall-of-shame."

Comments

But... never steal a camera phone

[XplosiveX]

oh the reasons you couldn't steal.. It is worth a laugh.

http://www.longislandpress.com/bb/viewtopic.php?p= 2037&

And I would have gotten away with it

[Anonymous Coward]

...if it weren't for those lousy kids.

Re:Interweb?

[TummyX]

Nope. Wikipedia disagrees. But mentions Intarweb as an alternate spelling. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interweb


You must be fun at parties.

Re:some good detective work...

[rzebram]

You mean to tell me that real police officers can't zoom in on footage taken from a $5 security camera and enhance it enough to read the room number off the keycard in someones hand? Or that they can't pull up a guy's life story and his current location based on a fingerprint left on a furnace in Bangladesh?Blasphemy!

Re:Happened to me

[ImaLamer]

Someone stole my sisters phone in high school (just about a year and a half ago). I just kept sending the phone text messages like:

"This is the Cincinnati Police. This is a stolen phone."

"Cincinnati Bell Telephone Theft Tracking Services - LAST CELL TOWER CONTACTED: #28302"

"THEFT NOTICE: ALL CALLS ARE MONITORED AND RECORDED"

And so forth... The next day she got it back before her first class started. It passed through six hands all with the note: "Return this to Sadie XXXXXXX"