craaaaaapp. lost my mobile phone - FOUND but being ransomed.

[MotionMan]

Quick tempered? I call the like I see them so if the shoe fits. You asked for it,read your post. You blab and flap your yap about something you know nothing about.
If you call $85.00 an hour cheap then bring it. There is no discretion mandated here.

You called me out remember, goons? I bet if we were face to face speaking to a stranger you would word that much differently. You sit all safe and sound behind a keyboard and yammer.

Advertize a phone retrieval service? They come to us in droves with all kinds of requests form to child abduction to airplanes.

@prism, Heh, So do I, PI's are nothing like the old TV shows believe me. We joke about it all the time. We have our fun and see some amazing things, and in my years I have never met one that has had to draw his firearm during a case.
As far as like the TV shows, they get hit on the head too much for me to wish for that. And we are rarely, if never seen. They never know we were there until the court date.

I can't believe my luck. Snagged a major lurker after posting six times in one thread (21 total posts in 4 years at this point).

Like shooting fish in a barrel:

Mine!

MotionMan

 

[Nebor]

I can't believe my luck. Snagged a major lurker after posting six times in one thread (21 total posts in 4 years at this point).

Like shooting fish in a barrel:

Mine!

MotionMan

He's a professional lurker. No, seriously.

 

[Pliablemoose]

He's a ninja. No, seriously.

Fixed that for you

 

[SunnyD]

Hey OP... you should have the police "pick up the phone" from the lady for you. Have them pay her with theft charges as well as extortion charges for "retrieving" the phone and being a "good" Samaritan.

 

[Pliablemoose]

It's likely been sold for pennies on the dollar by now, I wish GSM carriers would block ESN's of stolen phones, I believe only Sprint and Verizon routinely do that in the US.

The GSM carriers can do it, they choose not to to save $, I suspect. And you can activate CDMA phones that have blocked ESN's on smaller carriers too. Like Metro PCS.

 

[robphelan]

I spoke with AT&T and they pissed me off - said there was "no way" they can see if the IMEI was being used on their network. I called BS. I said there may be no way YOU can do it, but that data is stored in a table somewhere and a simple SELECT statement can get to it.

Hey OP... you should have the police "pick up the phone" from the lady for you. Have them pay her with theft charges as well as extortion charges for "retrieving" the phone and being a "good" Samaritan.

this is in the works... i'll update with more info as I can.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

It's likely been sold for pennies on the dollar by now, I wish GSM carriers would block ESN's of stolen phones, I believe only Sprint and Verizon routinely do that in the US.

The GSM carriers can do it, they choose not to to save $, I suspect. And you can activate CDMA phones that have blocked ESN's on smaller carriers too. Like Metro PCS.

half the phones at craigs are high end verizon phones that have been flashed for metro because they have bad esn's, so its not like what they do makes phones unsellable

 

[Bman123]

Yeah I see a lot of nice phones on craigslist for boost or simple mobile

 

[amdforever2]

I found a functioning iphone on the ground outside a restaurant. I took it to the cheesecake factory lady cause it was by their fountain..........I supposed I could have called ATT asked them to pull the number tied to the sim, the account tied to the number, and had their csr try to call one of the other lines on the acct for me




edit, it was passworded, so couldnt view its phonebook

 

[amdforever2]

I spoke with AT&T and they pissed me off - said there was "no way" they can see if the IMEI was being used on their network. I called BS. I said there may be no way YOU can do it, but that data is stored in a table somewhere and a simple SELECT statement can get to it.



this is in the works... i'll update with more info as I can.

You are technically correct..


However imagine the strain on the company if every customer wanted to turn a lost phone into a missing person CSI gps triangulatin' adventure.

 

[pontifex]

wow, i would never even think to ask for a reward

 

[T_Yamamoto]

that private detective guy sounds like the one whos mad lmao

call the cops, get it over with

 

[OBLAMA2009]

did this dude ever get his phone back. how unlucky could he be getting a crack w**** finding his phone.

i lost a phone a year ago and verizon told me that if someone brought it in and tried to activate it they wouldnt even seize it and return it to you. i dont think they will do anything to get your phone back for you

 

[Skott]

I always thought it would be too mean to taser a women but in this case... LOL

I hope the OP gets it all worked out.

 

[Strk]

half the phones at craigs are high end verizon phones that have been flashed for metro because they have bad esn's, so its not like what they do makes phones unsellable

Last I knew, the phones can't receive data once you flash them, so they're not worth nearly as much as they're supposed to be worth.