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Look after your phones!!

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:29pm
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tebo53

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I often read posts and hear about expensive mobile phones being lost or stolen.

I often see people, especially younger people, walking around the towns with their expensive phones half hanging out of their back pockets!!! That is an invitation for the pickpockets to jump into action😟.

I see older people with their expensive phones sticking out of their shirt top pockets, a snatch waiting to happen 😲

Couples sitting in bars with their expensive phones laying around on bars and tables.....a perfect scenario for distraction theft 😢

Pickpockets will dip into your handbag and have your expensive phone within seconds and it will be gone before you realise ☹

Once your phone is stolen the sim card is taken out, your phone will be unlocked and reverted back to factory standard and be sold on within an hour. Never expect to get it back!!!!

These thieves make a living out of phone theft.

Look after your phone. Zip and clip your handbag, put it in a zip up pocket and take care.

Steve 

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:49pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 3:49pm

Yes my phone was stolen out of my partners hand bag that was zipped up 

Martyn1986

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:07pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:07pm

I have tried explaining that you to my family and they all say the same, "well i can feel its there" they hopefully learn a lesson if/when it happens to them 

Darro

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:19pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 7:19pm

Few people realise that you can put a message on the lock screen of most phones in which you can give a contact number or email address and also the offer of a reward for return.

I would guess on the black market a stolen or 'found' phone would not be worth much more than €50 or so so by offering a reward of say €100 you'd stand an excellent chance of getting it back - and pretty quickly too!

RayBenidorm

Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 9:53pm

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Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2021 9:53pm

It could only be worth €1 or €2 just for precious metals, but 10 a day still adds up.

It also takes more than an hour to unlock a phone if there is a password required to enter.

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