How to get a stolen cellphone back
Aug. 28th, 2005 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gizaI saw this over on a Slashdot comment. It's silly, but it seemed to work:
Yay for Social Engineering!
Someone stole my sisters phone in high school (just about a year and a half ago). I just kept sending the phone text messages like:
"This is the Cincinnati Police. This is a stolen phone."
"Cincinnati Bell Telephone Theft Tracking Services - LAST CELL TOWER CONTACTED: #28302"
"THEFT NOTICE: ALL CALLS ARE MONITORED AND RECORDED"
And so forth... The next day she got it back before her first class started. It passed through six hands all with the note: "Return this to Sadie XXXXXXX"
"This is the Cincinnati Police. This is a stolen phone."
"Cincinnati Bell Telephone Theft Tracking Services - LAST CELL TOWER CONTACTED: #28302"
"THEFT NOTICE: ALL CALLS ARE MONITORED AND RECORDED"
And so forth... The next day she got it back before her first class started. It passed through six hands all with the note: "Return this to Sadie XXXXXXX"
Yay for Social Engineering!