Lost GPS tracker but now is moving...

rolion · 06-02-2020 12:20am #1

Hi guys,

Lost my GPS tracker a while ago,when i returned home, in the Dublin Airport.
Reported loss to airline,they just messed up all the paper work.
I considered it lost for good.

HOWEVER... few days ago i started getting alerts that "geofence" is being crossed... the tracker is moving,is fully charged and reporting.

Just logged in the dashboard and i can see where the new owner is.
I guess i know his home in Mulhuddart / Dublin 15 (as there are lots of smaller reporting points) and i know he left home and is working now, at this time, somewhere outside the Dublin Airport'a main terminals. All in GPS realtime.

My absolute dilema is: that "owner" is really not bright at all ... or ...is just winding me up.

What options do i have !?
Call at home or call at work ?

Thanks

If the chap is reading this now somehow ... it looks like this.
https://store.trackimo.com/products/3g-trackimo-gps-tracker

Shady Grady · 06-02-2020 12:39am

rolion wrote: »

Hi guys,

Lost my GPS tracker a while ago,when i returned home, in the Dublin Airport.
Reported loss to airline,they just messed up all the paper work.
I considered it lost for good.

HOWEVER... few days ago i started getting alerts that "geofence" is being crossed... the tracker is moving,is fully charged and reporting.

Just logged in the dashboard and i can see where the new owner is.
I guess i know his home in Mulhuddart / Dublin 15 (as there are lots of smaller reporting points) and i know he left home and is working now, at this time, somewhere outside the Dublin Airport'a main terminals. All in GPS realtime.

My absolute dilema is: that "owner" is really not bright at all ... or ...is just winding me up.

What options do i have !?
Call at home or call at work ?

Thanks

If the chap is reading this now somehow ... it looks like this.
https://store.trackimo.com/products/3g-trackimo-gps-tracker

Catch him at work and embarrass him by making an overly loud fuss about him being a thieving prick!

touts · 06-02-2020 12:45am

rolion wrote: »

Hi guys,

Lost my GPS tracker a while ago,when i returned home, in the Dublin Airport.
Reported loss to airline,they just messed up all the paper work.
I considered it lost for good.

HOWEVER... few days ago i started getting alerts that "geofence" is being crossed... the tracker is moving,is fully charged and reporting.

Just logged in the dashboard and i can see where the new owner is.
I guess i know his home in Mulhuddart / Dublin 15 (as there are lots of smaller reporting points) and i know he left home and is working now, at this time, somewhere outside the Dublin Airport'a main terminals. All in GPS realtime.

My absolute dilema is: that "owner" is really not bright at all ... or ...is just winding me up.

What options do i have !?
Call at home or call at work ?

Thanks

If the chap is reading this now somehow ... it looks like this.
https://store.trackimo.com/products/3g-trackimo-gps-tracker

Sounds like this thieving bollox is working in the Airport and stealing passengers stuff. Could be in baggage handling. Do us all a favour and report it to the airport authorities and then the guards.

the_syco · 06-02-2020 12:47am

rolion wrote: »

My absolute dilema is: that "owner" is really not bright at all ... or ...is just winding me up.

What options do i have !?

Lost or stolen? If stolen, report the theft to the cops.

rolion · 06-02-2020 12:51am

Oah... i'm not sure it has been "stolen", sorry !
More than likley lost by my junior, he said he had it when embarked on the plane and then, in the car,he couldnt find it.
Stayed few months in the DAA area, as a GPS location and not moving,guessed battery ran out.

Just couple of days ago,it came back online...
I gues he/she took it as a lost and expired non-reported item !?
But the battery is full 100% and moving from home to DAA.

touts · 06-02-2020 12:59am

rolion wrote: »

Oah... i'm not sure it has been "stolen", sorry !
More than likley lost by my junior, he said he had it when embarked on the plane and then, in the car,he couldnt find it.
Stayed few months in the DAA area, as a GPS location and not moving,guessed battery ran out.

Just couple of days ago,it came back online...
I gues he/she took it as a lost and expired non-reported item !?
But the battery is full 100% and moving from home to DAA.

Wish I had your optimistic view of people. Lost or lifted from your baggage it doesn't matter. He/she is using a device they know belongs to someone else. That's stealing. Doubtful it's the first time. Definitely won't be the last if you let it go. Report it.

Arghus · 06-02-2020 1:02am

I'll check back in tomorrow. If this thread has 300 replies by then we might be on to something.

the_syco · 06-02-2020 1:23am

rolion wrote: »

But the battery is full 100% and moving from home to DAA.

If you have a receipt for it, pop into the Airport Police Station, Arrivals level. It is open between the hours of 07:00 and 22:00

Show them the receipt, and how the item goes from the DAA to the persons home every day. I'm sure they'd be interested.

tonysopprano · 06-02-2020 2:01am

Report immediately even if only larceny by finding

1. For the purposes of this Act—

(1) A person steals who, without the consent of the owner, fraudulently and without a claim of right made in good faith, takes and carries away anything capable of being stolen with intent, at the time of such taking, permanently to deprive the owner thereof:

Provided that a person may be guilty of stealing any such thing notwithstanding that he has lawful possession thereof, if, being a bailee or part owner thereof, he fraudulently converts the same to his own use or the use of any person other than the owner:

(2)—(i) the expression “takes” includes obtaining the possession—

(a) by any trick;

(b) by intimidation;

(c) under a mistake on the part of the owner with knowledge on the part of the taker that possession has been so obtained;

(d) by finding, where at the time of the finding the finder believes that the owner can be discovered by taking reasonable steps;

endacl · 06-02-2020 2:06am

This is gonna be better than the ‘I found a safe under the floor of my shed’ thread!

uch · 06-02-2020 2:33am

If you lost your tracker, how are you tracking your tracker? Do you have a tracker tracker?

Seth Brundle · 06-02-2020 9:33am

There could be a few quid waiting for you OP!
Apparently the banks are compensating people who lost their trackers.

Jet Black · 06-02-2020 9:54am

When was it lost exactly?

It could have been handed into the airport police. After 3 months if it's not claimed they person who turned it in can claim it. They also sell stuff off at some point in the year, I can't remember when exactly.

The Tetrarch · 06-02-2020 9:57am

Seth Brundle wrote: »

There could be a few quid waiting for you OP!
Apparently the banks are compensating people who lost their trackers.

I don't even know what a GPS tracker is, and have been reading the thread to find out. I thought it was a thing hidden in a car.

Del2005 · 06-02-2020 10:05am

rolion wrote: »

Oah... i'm not sure it has been "stolen", sorry !
More than likley lost by my junior, he said he had it when embarked on the plane and then, in the car,he couldnt find it.
Stayed few months in the DAA area, as a GPS location and not moving,guessed battery ran out.

Just couple of days ago,it came back online...
I gues he/she took it as a lost and expired non-reported item !?
But the battery is full 100% and moving from home to DAA.

Not much of a GPS tracker if you lost it. You need to go back to the place you reported it lost and say that it's now transmitting and being used by someone at the airport, they will deal with it.

cj maxx · 06-02-2020 10:28am

Just marking this for the ops link

andekwarhola · 06-02-2020 10:31am

A clear justification for allowing lost phones and other GPS devices to have a detonable explosive component.

cj maxx · 06-02-2020 10:39am

Del2005 wrote: »

Not much of a GPS tracker if you lost it. You need to go back to the place you reported it lost and say that it's now transmitting and being used by someone at the airport, they will deal with it.

Will they fcuk. They'll tell him to switch it off and sell it

rolion · 06-02-2020 12:00pm

OK.
Tracker worked fine for my junior.Very small and handy to have it abroad just in case we get lost from each other. I had it for years,now he has a watch with same GPS solution.

Just checked the dashboard again...its getting so "oo7 funny"
Guy works beside airport. Lives in D15.
I can start tracing visually the cars @home and at @airport but that looks spooky.
I'll keep an eye for few days and see if i can setup some sort of a pattern.

I guess the smartie "got it" some how,powered on and registered on the website,from where he can see his live moves but not sure if the dashboard allows two devices to be registered with same serial number under two different accounts.
If he doesnt have access to dashboard,then he doesnt know what that tracker does...

I'll notify Airport Police in a week time, after i have few more history, i will not intend to contact the guy @home in the living room just in case i may be accused of some weird stuff...

endacl · 06-02-2020 12:33pm

Would be funny if he had an account on here and found this thread.

rolion · 06-02-2020 12:45pm

endacl wrote: »

Would be funny if he had an account on here and found this thread.

Too late... we have his work place AND his living room address.
For DAA Police will be easy to connect the GPS dots.

Ive updated tracking at 5 minutes and setup alerts when he moves and with geofences.
I just want the tracker back... that's all today.

weldoninhio · 06-02-2020 12:49pm

rolion wrote: »

OK.
Tracker worked fine for my junior.Very small and handy to have it abroad just in case we get lost from each other. I had it for years,now he has a watch with same GPS solution.

Just checked the dashboard again...its getting so "oo7 funny"
Guy works beside airport. Lives in D15.
I can start tracing visually the cars @home and at @airport but that looks spooky.
I'll keep an eye for few days and see if i can setup some sort of a pattern.

I guess the smartie "got it" some how,powered on and registered on the website,from where he can see his live moves but not sure if the dashboard allows two devices to be registered with same serial number under two different accounts.
If he doesnt have access to dashboard,then he doesnt know what that tracker does...

I'll notify Airport Police in a week time, after i have few more history, i will not intend to contact the guy @home in the living room just in case i may be accused of some weird stuff...

Is he flying to and from work?? The tracker track is as the crow flies. Surely it would track his actual route??

rolion · 06-02-2020 12:53pm

weldoninhio wrote: »

Is he flying to and from work?? The tracker track is as the crow flies. Surely it would track his actual route??

WAs setup for my junior,tracking period at 60 minutes,to conserve battery and he was moving around slowly than a car at 60kmh

I changed that to more frequent...it will create more GPS points but kills the battery.

mondeo · 06-02-2020 1:23pm

Just go down to your Garda station and ask them what their advice would be on getting it back. I lost a phone a few years back and tracked it via that google trace app whatever it was called. Garda went to the guys address and got the phone back, the holder of my phone said they bought it in a phone shop as a second hand device where he had a receipt to prove it.... Fair enough he didn't rob it, but I still got the phone back. Didn't follow up on the shop who sold it to him though. Some junky probably sold it to the shop..... Hardly worth worrying about it since they would be long gone.

06-02-2020 1:29pm

maybe he has it switched on so you that you will be able to find your GPS tracker and is waiting for you to track him / her down. What if one of the cabin crew found it on the plane when they were cleaning it out and are letting you know where you can find it.

Galadriel · 06-02-2020 1:31pm

Deleted User wrote: »

maybe he has it switched on so you that you will be able to find your GPS tracker and is waiting for you to track him / her down. What if one of the cabin crew found it on the plane when they were cleaning it out and are letting you know where you can find it.

One can assume there is a protocol in place for when cabin crew find stuff, I am sure bringing the item home isn't on that list.

IAMAMORON · 06-02-2020 1:41pm

This entire thread is garbage.

Op just report it to the cops and get on with your life.

What are you going to do, call down to the gaff one night and kick up?

Will you phuck.

corner of hells · 06-02-2020 2:07pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

This entire thread is garbage.

Op just report it to the cops and get on with your life.

What are you going to do, call down to the gaff one night and kick up?

Will you phuck.

Au contraire, Mr Moron , this thread has the potential to be an AH classic spoken about in years to come.
I personally believe his missus works in the airport and has it in her handbag having forgotten to tell him about it.

From personal experience in my hacienda, Casa del Corner, if anything goes missing, mrs Corner is generally responsible.
To give you an example, she lost a fcukin 2 foot fish tank during a house move years ago .

FFVII · 06-02-2020 2:42pm

corner of hells wrote: »

Au contraire, Mr Moron , this thread has the potential to be an AH classic spoken about in years to come.
I personally believe his missus works in the airport and has it in her handbag having forgotten to tell him about it.

From personal experience in my hacienda, Casa del Corner, if anything goes missing, mrs Corner is generally responsible.
To give you an example, she lost a fcukin 2 foot fish tank during a house move years ago .

She obviously wanted rid of said tank and that was her chance.

august12 · 06-02-2020 3:38pm

IAMAMORON wrote: »

This entire thread is garbage.

Op just report it to the cops and get on with your life.

What are you going to do, call down to the gaff one night and kick up?

Will you phuck.

I'm thoroughly enjoying this thread! Must be interesting tracking this person's movements. And all unbeknownst to him/her.

irish_goat · 07-02-2020 4:36pm

OP should track the thief to the pub tonight and confront them in person there.

FFVII · 07-02-2020 5:22pm

What does this tracker cost?

corner of hells · 07-02-2020 5:57pm

FFVII wrote: »

She obviously wanted rid of said tank and that was her chance.

She was sorry in the long run , I bought a bigger one.

corner of hells · 07-02-2020 5:58pm

irish_goat wrote: »

OP should track the thief to the pub tonight and confront them in person there.

Probably best to arrive naked for maximum effect.

MrFireCoalMan · 07-02-2020 6:13pm

Call Bundee!

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-dont-think-it-was-very-professional-mothers-opinion-on-connacht-players-stolen-laptop-incident-34717496.html

Seth Brundle · 07-02-2020 7:31pm

FFVII wrote: »

What does this tracker cost?

Take a look at the link in the OP!

cj maxx · 23-02-2020 3:18pm

Any word from Rolion (OP) what's the outcome of his/her tracker

Quantum Erasure · 24-02-2020 12:51am

FFVII wrote: »

What does this tracker cost?

I don't know what a tracker mortgage is...

rolion · 24-02-2020 10:24am

Ok.

The GPS tracker have been lost by my son,on return home,in Dublin airport.
Lost and not stolen.
As shared above,someone have got it and use it for a while.

Called the Airport and i've been told that the tracker once reported lost with airline should not have been handled to a staff or third party member to be used driving from Mulhuddart' home to Airport' offices.

The yearly subscription expires in March and cannot be used unless paid again.
Also,once i shared my story here,next day the tracker stopped beep-ing the website,so i guess the new owner have read the topic and got aware of my "watching his movements"

Im afraid that the staff that got my tracker may get in troubles and / or legal action,loss of work and so on.
I have his home address on the tracking map,i could call and ask him to pass it over but not sure about his reactions.

Outcome... i gave up and took it as a lesson.

Seth Brundle · 24-02-2020 10:26am

rolion wrote: »

Im afraid that the staff that got my tracker may get in troubles and / or legal action,loss of work and so on.
I have his home address on the tracking map,i could call and ask him to pass it over but not sure about his reactions.

Outcome... i gave up and took it as a lesson.

One positive outcome would be for the employee to PM you on here letting you know that they found your device and had been hoping for a way to make contact in order to return it and then the matter can be closed.

amber2 · 24-02-2020 10:35am

Seth Brundle wrote: »

One positive outcome would be for the employee to PM you on here letting you know that they found your device and had been hoping for a way to make contact in order to return it and then the matter can be closed.

Exactly, seeing as you are decent enough to not cost them their job then the decent thing for them to do would be to contact you and return it.

Mr Tickle · 24-02-2020 10:41am

Could send a letter to the address. Explain the situation and give him some way of contacting you. Make it clear that you're not looking to prosecute him in any way. You avoid any risk of him reacting badly/aggressively and he might be happy to return it.

billie1b · 24-02-2020 11:25am

rolion wrote: »

Ok.

The GPS tracker have been lost by my son,on return home,in Dublin airport.
Lost and not stolen.
As shared above,someone have got it and use it for a while.

Called the Airport and i've been told that the tracker once reported lost with airline should not have been handled to a staff or third party member to be used driving from Mulhuddart' home to Airport' offices.

The yearly subscription expires in March and cannot be used unless paid again.
Also,once i shared my story here,next day the tracker stopped beep-ing the website,so i guess the new owner have read the topic and got aware of my "watching his movements"

Im afraid that the staff that got my tracker may get in troubles and / or legal action,loss of work and so on.
I have his home address on the tracking map,i could call and ask him to pass it over but not sure about his reactions.

Outcome... i gave up and took it as a lesson.

Can I just ask exactly when it was that you lost or mislaid the item in question? An exact date if you could please or ball park date

cj maxx · 24-02-2020 12:12pm

billie1b wrote: »

Can I just ask exactly when it was that you lost or mislaid the item in question? An exact date if you could please or ball park date

Billy , did you accidentally 'find' one like the OPs.?

stevek93 · 24-02-2020 12:49pm

Im lost is this a phone or what is it?

Seth Brundle · 24-02-2020 1:04pm

stevek93 wrote: »

Im lost is this a phone or what is it?

as the OP said in the opening post...

rolion wrote: »

it looks like this.
https://store.trackimo.com/products/3g-trackimo-gps-tracker

Strumms · 24-02-2020 2:17pm

Going by the route of the tracker, the person is working in some capacity in cargo and not the main terminal, could be two or three companies so tracking could be tricky.

billie1b · 24-02-2020 5:23pm

cjmc wrote: »

Billy , did you accidentally 'find' one like the OPs.?

No but if it’s handed into lost and found and not claimed after 91 days the person who handed it in is classed as the new owner if it, they’re the rules in the airport

cj maxx · 24-02-2020 5:29pm

billie1b wrote: »

No but if it’s handed into lost and found and not claimed after 91 days the person who handed it in is classed as the new owner if it, they’re the rules in the airport

So if I loose something, and it's handed to to say Joey. After 91 days it belongs to Joey ??
Alot of room for Joey to 'forget' to file the claim

billie1b · 24-02-2020 5:41pm

cjmc wrote: »

So if I loose something, and it's handed to to say Joey. After 91 days it belongs to Joey ??
Alot of room for Joey to 'forget' to file the claim

No the day it’s handed in ‘Joey’ is given a receipt with a time and date on it, the lost item stays with lost and found or airport police, when ‘Joey’ goes back on the 92nd day with the receipt he is told ‘the item was claimed’ or ‘the item was not claimed, it’s yours now’, ‘Joey’ then signs another form to say that it was held for the 91 days and was unclaimed and that he is now the owner of said item. It’s all documented and recorded, if it was handed in in the first place. Thats why I asked for a specific date from the OP, to see if it was over the 91 days or not, or to see if ‘Joey’ didn’t hand it in and is a little scumbag who pocketed it and started using it within a few days of finding said object.

Lost GPS tracker but now is moving...

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