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Tracking Down a Cell Phone Thief

Posted by Zonk on from the not-a-good-move dept.

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."

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  1. some good detective work... by wcitech · · Score: 5, Interesting

    ...and a little luck.

    While some good detective work was done by the MoDaCo admin(s?), a lot of thanks can be given to chance, because the cultprit was stupid enough to unlock his phone a) from a source well known to MoDaCo and b) from the same IP address. I'm calling it 25% good sleuthing, 75% dumb criminal.

  2. The rat speaks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here is the turd making a comment on the thread regarding the event and the missing phone.

    http://www.modaco.com/Event_pictures_and_a_plea_-t 225214-s15.html

    What an idiot.