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Stolen iPhone 3GS - What to do?????

  • 14-05-2011 4:11pm
    #1
    Twiggy69
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭


    My son's iPhone 3GS was stolen overnight. Apparently he had left it charging overnight on the Kitchen table hooked up to our iMac. He got a call on his number demanding a reward. I then phoned and they hung up.

    What are we to do now???
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  • #2
    kellsred
    Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭kellsred


    Twiggy69 wrote: »
    My son's iPhone 3GS was stolen overnight. Apparently he had left it charging overnight on the Kitchen table hooked up to our iMac. He got a call on his number demanding a reward. I then phoned and they hung up.

    What are we to do now???

    Not following you here.

    His phone was stolen, but not your iMac?
    How did they call him on his number if they had his phone?


  • #3
    Twiggy69
    Registered Users Posts: 258 ✭✭Twiggy69


    The oldest trick in the book, just searched Contacts for HOME and rang that!


  • #4
    naasrd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭naasrd


    You mean the called "home" from your son's phone? Send them a text and ask them to ring again so you can discuss the return of the phone.


  • #5
    fox007
    Registered Users Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭fox007


    Twiggy69 wrote: »
    My son's iPhone 3GS was stolen overnight. Apparently he had left it charging overnight on the Kitchen table hooked up to our iMac. He got a call on his number demanding a reward. I then phoned and they hung up.

    What are we to do now???

    Someone broke in to your home and kellsred wants you to cut a deal with them NO way,
    Call the garda get the iPhone blocked by the carrier!!

    Was anything else taken?


  • #6
    Spunk84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Spunk84


    they broke into your home and stole a iphone which was connected to a imac:rolleyes: but left the imac there:confused: i think you should be asking your son who he sold it too LMAO;)


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  • #7
    naasrd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭naasrd


    fox007 wrote: »
    Someone broke in to your home and kellsred wants you to cut a deal with them NO way,
    Call the garda get the iPhone blocked by the carrier!!?

    And then what...? If it was me I'd play the fool and arrange to pay for it's return.... Couple of mates, baseball bats...do the maths yourself.


  • #8
    barryd09
    Registered Users Posts: 1,581 ✭✭✭barryd09


    If the phone is insured,contact the network within 24 hours.


  • #9
    dodzy
    Registered Users Posts: 9,918 ✭✭✭dodzy


    barryd09 wrote: »
    If the phone is insured,contact the network within 24 hours.
    Contact the network anyway, insured or not, and get a bar activated. The phone will instantly become an ipod. If by chance he is reunited with the phone at some point, just ring the network, they will ask for a 4 digit code which your son would have to give them to initiate the bar, and it will be lifted.

    Still strange circumstances IMO. Imac left ????? I dont think so:rolleyes:


  • #10
    ironclaw
    Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭ironclaw


    With respect, your story doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Was your house robbed?


  • #11
    Dublinstiofán
    Registered Users Posts: 2,190 ✭✭✭Dublinstiofán


    Hope they stole some of the bull**** from your house while they were there!


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  • #12
    kellsred
    Registered Users Posts: 318 ✭✭kellsred


    fox007 wrote: »
    Someone broke in to your home and kellsred wants you to cut a deal with them NO way,
    Call the garda get the iPhone blocked by the carrier!!

    Was anything else taken?

    :confused:


  • #13
    seanybiker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    I'm with everyone else on this one to be honest. Tell your son to cop on


  • #14
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Ask your son some more questions. If they robbed the phone they would of taken more. I take it you called the police as well because of the break in?

    Also did you install "Find my iPhone" software on the phone? If so you can trace its location and lock/wipe the phone if needed.

    If you did install it but don't have another device, here is where you can activate a search.

    https://me.com/


  • #15
    Stevie Dakota
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭Stevie Dakota


    Twiggy69 wrote: »
    What are we to do now???

    Get him a Nokia.


  • #16
    Tallon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,569 ✭✭✭✭Tallon


    Give me the number, I'll call them and make them an offer!


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Why wasnt the Imac taken ? ? :confused:


  • #18
    naasrd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,408 ✭✭✭naasrd


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Why wasnt the Imac taken ? ? :confused:

    In fairness to the OP my house was burgled last year and my iMac was left along with a laptop. The cops said that's not uncommon, mainly cash and jewellery seem to be what they're after.


  • #19
    paddypowder
    Registered Users Posts: 205 ✭✭paddypowder


    naasrd wrote: »
    In fairness to the OP my house was burgled last year and my iMac was left along with a laptop. The cops said that's not uncommon, mainly cash and jewellery seem to be what they're after.

    again.. i confirm
    sisters house burgled with her inside.. left laptop and pc
    took phone


  • #20
    Spunk84
    Registered Users Posts: 1,656 ✭✭✭Spunk84


    I can see a PC not being took but a laptop?

    Just as it was said before "iPhone charging on iMac " but the phone was only stolen? So the thieve broke in, took the iphone off the charger, which was attached to the bright WHITE EXPENSIVE iMac but left the laptop there:p

    Now a iPhone costs 500'euro new, maybe 300-400stolen:D
    IMac cost 1100-3k new, maybe 800+ stolen

    Now I'm not a cat burglar but if I was, I would of taken phone and laptop to make over a grand. I don't think anyone alive today wouldn't know that iMacs are worth money let alone iPhones.

    Plus has little tommy confessed to mommy that the big boys in school took it, as the OP has become very quite all of a sudden?


  • #21
    ProjectColossus
    Registered Users Posts: 764 ✭✭✭ProjectColossus


    Spunk84 wrote: »
    I can see a PC not being took but a laptop?

    Just as it was said before "iPhone charging on iMac " but the phone was only stolen? So the thieve broke in, took the iphone off the charger, which was attached to the bright WHITE EXPENSIVE iMac but left the laptop there:p

    Now a iPhone costs 500'euro new, maybe 300-400stolen:D
    IMac cost 1100-3k new, maybe 800+ stolen

    Now I'm not a cat burglar but if I was, I would of taken phone and laptop to make over a grand. I don't think anyone alive today wouldn't know that iMacs are worth money let alone iPhones.

    Plus has little tommy confessed to mommy that the big boys in school took it, as the OP has become very quite all of a sudden?

    But an iMac is not a laptop, and could be tricky to carry around depending on the circumstances.


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