Fupp.
Markman writes:
“Make sure to cancel your phone asap after it goes missing. A nice bit of damage in under four hours…”
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Fupp.
Markman writes:
“Make sure to cancel your phone asap after it goes missing. A nice bit of damage in under four hours…”
Pin/Pattern lock people!!
+1 , its that simple.
Well deserved, lesson learned one would expect!
In fairness though, I’m surprised that a near half hour call to Italy only cost 10 euro. Not bad.
Roma charges?
+40
+41
Hmmm…multiple calls to Romania and Italy? Roma much?
“Roma much?”
What does that even mean?
It was a pun on mobile phone roaming. It loses something in explanation.
It loses something in the telling, more like.
C’mon lies, admit it – you’re making an insinuation that the thief was Roma but then you got caught out and used JAMS joke to escape. ‘ Hmmm…multiple calls to Romania and Italy? Roma much?’ doesn’t make sense as a joke, only as that. Don’t lie to us…
Oh dear.
I was only trying to highlight the idiotic nature of phrases ending in ‘much?’ and now I’ve gone and implicated Just Sayin’ in some kind of xenophobic scandal.
I definitely believe Roma stole the phone. There, I said it.
I know the “much” tag is annoying.
this discussion point was very tirane, i mean torino,
May have just been a Romanian person.
53 euro? got off lightly
I don’t think the amount is the issue. €1 or €100, I’d be fuming.
Bet you’d be fuming more at €100 though..
Happened me last year to the tune of 120 in calls to Morocco.
Same here, HTC android phone locked with a pin, realized phone was gone after a night out. I called it in the morning and someone answered saying they found it, asked them to throw it in a taxi to me but he said his was outside dublin at the time and would meet me after work that evening.
I checked usage online and 180 euro in calls to Morocco on it already !
I didn’t have insurance so lost a 500 euro phone, had to pay call charges, had to buy a new phone and was only 2 months into a 24 month contract !
Apt username! :)
i thought the PIN would protect it but now reckon you could just bring an Android phone to any of those used phone shops and they’ll unlock it for you.
Surely if you reported it stolen, you wouldn’t have to pay the call charges?
only reported it stolen after I checked the usage so 3 said “ah that’s terrbble, you should have reported it before the calls where made”. which is fair enough i suppose or else you could get a cheap phone run up a huge bill and then say it was stolen.
no it is not fair enough. i would have taken them to small claims. they have no case in law
and don’t call me surely :)
Is the impression supposed to be that the bill is €53k?
The same thing happened to my brother in the UK and the cost was over 200sterling before he had a chance to cancel the sim.
Unfortunately the Romanian (and yes all the calls were to Romania) didnt anticipate how hard my brother would take it.
He got an itemised bill as above, bought one of those international call cards to allow cheap as chips calls to Romania and proceded to call all of the numbers on the bill at obscene hours of the night/morning (usually while intoxicated) and had a ‘polite’ conversation with whoever answered….. and continued to do this for quite some time
nice
What’s nice about it? :)
Punishing the unfortunate friends and family members of a thief?
They only had the misfortune of receiving a phone call once.
He’s probably still calling them for a drunken chat.
Used be fairly rampant in the UK, and probably here, they would have a premium number set up and just call it when they stole / acquired a phone. They even open up bogus accounts on bill pay and never paid them. The premium numbers (Set up by them) got paid regardless. Pretty ingenious (and scumbag) scam.
damn wish I had thought of that
My my phone…. or is this just the iphone. Can block it directly yourself & you can still see the location.
Find iphone
Smartphone? Plenty of time to locate them using Prey or Find My iPhone