This man knows who stole my phone, can anyone help
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Sorry for the lack of updates last night. I tried to explain about how there were lots of people online interested in what was going on but she wasn't having any of it! Whenever I checked the phone it was off though so not much/anything to report.
It's showing online still, 100% charge and still plugged in. Just making an audio recording.
It's showing online still, 100% charge and still plugged in. Just making an audio recording.
Haha, I'm as surprised as anyone! I'm liking the conspiracy theories myself! I don't work for Cereberus unfortunately.
I've eaten breakfast! Audio was total silence. I think you're right though it could be a while, unless he gets an early wake up call from the police!
It's so frustrating, they've got all these details from me. I have evidence this guy has had my phone since just a few hours after its theft and he is still in possession of it. I've given them a name, address, personal mobile number, photograph, description (just so it was added on the file if an officer called in and the operator doesn't have access to the photos) and they still are taking their time!
I'm genuinely surprised that even having been given an address they still haven't gone. The papers have been reporting on a huge string of burglaries in the area recently that exactly match the sound/type that we were victim too. The police were quoted as saying this is being given a high priority!!!
There are officers reported in the papers as saying burglaries are taking top priority!
It's so frustrating, they've got all these details from me. I have evidence this guy has had my phone since just a few hours after its theft and he is still in possession of it. I've given them a name, address, personal mobile number, photograph, description (just so it was added on the file if an officer called in and the operator doesn't have access to the photos) and they still are taking their time!
I'm genuinely surprised that even having been given an address they still haven't gone. The papers have been reporting on a huge string of burglaries in the area recently that exactly match the sound/type that we were victim too. The police were quoted as saying this is being given a high priority!!!
There are officers reported in the papers as saying burglaries are taking top priority!
I think I might be victim to my power saving attempts again. It's offline. There was a program on the phone that gives you the option of disabling wifi/data when the phone screen is switched off. I think he's activated that as when I miss called the phone it came online for a while but now its gone off again. When he gets up and uses the phone again it'll get back in touch with me. Assuming that's what is happening. It doesn't make sense that he's switching it off and if he hasn't worked out what's going on so far I'm not sure he will!
If nothing happens today then I'm going to be very tempted. I've called my dad and given him instruction on how to monitor the phone. If my phone goes for a walk into town I'm going to go and see if I can get eyes on him!
What is also frustrating is that my phone would have been the perfect platform to allow me to go into town/monitor from outside the flat and follow him. I've now got an old laptop that needs wifi and has a 30min battery life and a sony ericsson brick phone
It's kinda like 24 set in the 80s!I've just noticed some on some of the emails coming from the phone the subject line is "Cerberus: picture taken - Wrong unlock code ". He's setup his own pin code on the phone and now whenever he enters it wrongly it'll send me a photo of him!
Yep, broke in whilst we were having dinner and pinched a bag and my phone. He's manually deleted some of my personal data (texts and contacts) but hasn't bothered to do a full reset/wipe phone. Hence my tracking software that was on the phone is still working!
He's changed the sim card and using the phone like any normal person would use theirs, only I can see every call, text, gps location and make it take photos, videos and audio recordings!
I'll give the police a chance certainly before going to the media. Too many ways that could go wrong! Next time I speak with the police I might drop it into the conversation that it's starting to generate public interest....
It's quite a funny thought actually, a mass of ocukers gather round the corner and then go knocking on his door on mass. Keyboards in one hand and uploading photos and videos with the other! If the mole man answers we can barge in and find out what the police think of a citizens arrest!
Police:"excuse me every so sorry to bother you, but by any chance have you any stolen property on your premises"
The Mole:"no"
Police:"only you exactly match the description and photograph of someone who's been using a stolen phone which was tracked to this address"
The Mole:silence
Police:"ok sorry to bother you"
That or it's the wrong flat and the police think I'm an idiot.
The operators are sounding genuinely interested and helpful, obviously they probably can't give me any details for any plans to go round but it would just be great for them to follow up on the leads! Apparently they can't check the details for the owner of the sim card that's currently in the phone which I thought would have been relatively simple!
If he's anything like my dad this could all turn to ****
This is a concern! It took quite a while to get the concept across to him!
No it just means he has put his own lock code on the phone. Cerberus has a default setting that everytime you enter a code in wrongly it'll email a photo. It shouldn't alert the phone user to this at all. It'll only do it when he enters his own code in wrongly.
I'm curious about the OP mentioning earlier that the thief removed Samsung Dive - surely he would need the password to do this?
Also, AVAST mobile security seems to work similarly to Cerberus if anyone fancies an alternative?
I don't know how he did it, but it's not appearing when I log in to the Dive website whereas it originally showed up and even enabled gps for me to track the phone. Big thanks to Dimple as I wasn't aware of Dive and its ability to turn the GPS on on a non routed phone.
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