Register Your Phones - Lets STOP This Crime!
12 January 2005, 10:47 PM
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Register Your Phones - Lets STOP This Crime!
Mobile Phone Database set up
Register your phone and get it back if recovered, lock it so no-one can use it (with a simple call)
If everyone logs their phones then there will be NO reason whatsoever for anyone to steal your phone ... as they will simply refuse to work!
Do it now, you know it makes sense!!
Many thousands of mobile phones are lost or stolen each year in the UK. With your help we can make your phone safer and stop mobile phone crime.
""The National Mobile Phone Register already holds details of over 10 million phones. Add your details now to protect your phone and help the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit stop criminals. Once you have registered your phone, you will have a better chance of getting it back.""
http://www.immobilise.com
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Register your phone and get it back if recovered, lock it so no-one can use it (with a simple call)
If everyone logs their phones then there will be NO reason whatsoever for anyone to steal your phone ... as they will simply refuse to work!
Do it now, you know it makes sense!!
Many thousands of mobile phones are lost or stolen each year in the UK. With your help we can make your phone safer and stop mobile phone crime.
""The National Mobile Phone Register already holds details of over 10 million phones. Add your details now to protect your phone and help the National Mobile Phone Crime Unit stop criminals. Once you have registered your phone, you will have a better chance of getting it back.""
http://www.immobilise.com
Pete
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12 January 2005, 10:50 PM
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Is it just me who is a bit cynical about registering my phone details (aka personal tracking beacon) with the police? 
As far as I am aware the mobile phone companies now share a common blocked phone database already. I would be a little wary of the police "owning" the data so to speak.
As far as I am aware the mobile phone companies now share a common blocked phone database already. I would be a little wary of the police "owning" the data so to speak.
12 January 2005, 10:51 PM
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**** that I get a new one everytime it gets nicked or if I accidentally drop it in to a pint of stella 
last time I dropped it I reacted too fast and drop-kicked it across the pub carpark, still not found all the bits
On a more serious note, all the latest police initiatives seem to be based on US doing the hard work, whilst the understaffed police just fill in forms so we can claim on our insurance
last time I dropped it I reacted too fast and drop-kicked it across the pub carpark, still not found all the bits
On a more serious note, all the latest police initiatives seem to be based on US doing the hard work, whilst the understaffed police just fill in forms so we can claim on our insurance
12 January 2005, 10:54 PM
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Registering won't mean squat. Once a mobile is recovered the rozzers should already be able to trace it back via the airtime companies.
It won't stop people stealing mobiles as a mobile phone barred in this country will still work abroad so many of them are just exported or have their identity changed (IMEI) to work here again.
It won't stop people stealing mobiles as a mobile phone barred in this country will still work abroad so many of them are just exported or have their identity changed (IMEI) to work here again.
12 January 2005, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
Where have YOU been where you shouldn't have been then!! Pete
Now I come to read the site fully, it isn't actually a "police database" at all, it is more than likely the consolidated barred phone database about which I already knew!! Cheers for the red herring Pete!
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12 January 2005, 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by dpb
you a **** now then?...
**cough** To55er! **cough**
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13 January 2005, 12:21 AM
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You need to get a phone where the phone lock (not sim lock) is implemented proeprly.
Mine is unuseable without the phone lock code if you leave it for 30 minutes (customiseable) or reboot it or change the SIM. The only way to get around it is to re-flash the firmware and if you're doing that you can change the IMEI number anyway and this database will do bugger all to help you.
I suppose this DB makes your phone more recoverable if you have a chavvy pre-pay phone, but for those of us with proper phones, it's recoverable anyway.
Mine is unuseable without the phone lock code if you leave it for 30 minutes (customiseable) or reboot it or change the SIM. The only way to get around it is to re-flash the firmware and if you're doing that you can change the IMEI number anyway and this database will do bugger all to help you.
I suppose this DB makes your phone more recoverable if you have a chavvy pre-pay phone, but for those of us with proper phones, it's recoverable anyway.
13 January 2005, 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by mrklaw
I wouldn't mind mine being nicked, but I don't want to lose my contacts. So I'd prefer a foolproof way of backing my contacts up - either to my PC or to a website somewhere.
If you don't have a mobile with PC Synch then see if your provider does anything, orange will copy the contents of your sim on to a spare one for about £5. Not much use if the sim holds 100 numbers and you are using phone memort that holds 500! I still think Outlook synch is the way to go, separate folder for phone details, job's a good un
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