Large number of N900s stolen
 

Hi everyone,


Sad news, in my lab at Danish Technical University we had a large number of N900s stolen.
Most of the phones have danish keyboard so probably they will appear on the danish/norwegian/swedish market, but not necessarily.

At this moment, I will not yet provide IMEI numbers of the stolen phones, but I ask you:
If you see an N900 in a perfect state for sale, but without box or any papers, please contact me.
If you see a larger number of N900s for sale, without boxes or papers, please contact me.


Why is it important? Those are not our private phones, those are used by students for projects and learning. I guess those are as much 'community phones' as it gets.

My contact info: arekquest@gmail.com or PM.

Thank you.

[edit] Another clue: see those N900s among N95s, X6s, N810s, 5800s, N97s? Those can be also ours.

Re: Large number of N900s stolen
 

Get the phone's IMEI or serial number.

Get your original SIM number back by informing your service provider.

Inform the police that your phone has been stolen and keep a copy of any paperwork involved with the process. Only do this by going to the local police station and reporting it there, never call the emergency services for any non-life threatening situation.

Contact your local phone service provider and give them a copy of your police report paperwork and request that they inform you when your phone is activated by someone else.

Don't get rid of your original number.

When some one inserts a SIM in your stolen phone, the mobile service provider will get the information and contact you. The police and your service provider should then be able to locate your phone.

Re: Large number of N900s stolen
 

Good luck in the hunt for them - can you not mail providers to block the imei's? (No idea if it is possible... but i'll keep my eye out next time i goto Uganda/Nigeria etc!) ..

Tis a real pain when people do that :(

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@God, @noobmonkey, thanks.

We are talking about large number of the devices (without sim cards). We do not want to block IMEIs, as then they are as well as gone.

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I hope the community can help. How many phones are we talking about?

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This is very true...once the IMEIs are blocked the phones the are unusable if you get them back! How many phones are missing? Good place to check is Ebay in your country, they will shift them pretty quickly on there, maybe check for N900's at real knock-down prices with no box etc.? Say a 5 day auction as well for speed! Good luck!

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Can you not track the thiefs down at all? No cameras? No idea who it could be? Most likely someone with access to a certain place, or someone who knows himself in that university?

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We are talking 20+ N900s with several hundreds of the other mentioned phones. But we feel N900s are the key here.

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I'll inform you if I see anything unusual in my region.

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It sounds like you should be reporting this to the police and not on this community. Don't get me wrong, but that is a big robbery. The police may be able to track them down.

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@God, everyone is involved, it is a big thing.

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did u call the police? do it NOW

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Really sorry to hear that, will keep an eye out.

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You've got to feel sorry for people that have to steal to get through their lives.

Scum-bags.

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Don't you all have your lab locked with keys? I bet this was an inside job. No random person can enter your lab and still that amount of phones. Question those you work with... you have a better chance of retrieving the phones by doing so than posting here.

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And how would the thief know they even existed in the lab? I agree.

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This is very sad news.

If I were you, I would certainly contact the police.

Let's hope that this is not Apple's next global operation against its competitors, or we're all in trouble!

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I believe that the police is included in "everyone", so no need to convince him to call the police.

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if you know the IMEI numbers you can give them to police and to all phone companies. as soon as the thieves put a sim card and enter a cell phone network they will be tracked down. each cell phone transmits the phone number, the sim card ID and IMEI to the network.
this way, the phone company can find out the phone number of the person who has the phone with the specific IMEI

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Damn! so many potential apps and games for N900 :D

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that's why I created this suggestion http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=48286

but no one cares till their n900s got stolen...

Re: Large number of N900s stolen
 

Thanks for interest everyone.
Just to explain some things: it was a burglary, brute force, police is involved, we are aware of IMEI mechanisms.

As soon as the phones leave the country, it is getting extremely difficult to track them down, as only the register of blacklisted emails is kept updated, there is no central register of phones connected to any network in the world. Thus my request to community.

@HellFlyer, yes. One of the apps developed by students, event, time and location based reminders and profiles was just suspended in development.

Re: Large number of N900s stolen
 

I am sorry to hear that, I will keep an eye out here in Sweden.
I hope you get them back.

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What a shame! I really hope you get those back real fast! The good news is, that the danish keyboard will set them apart from the crowd.
And some in danish: Hvor er det nedtur! Jeg håber sgu at I får dem knaldet!

Sounds really exciting. What do you use them for? Do you have some kind of project homepage?

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@MOC check out http://milab.imm.dtu.dk/

Re: Large number of N900s stolen
 

I am sorry to hear that, if i see any suspicious n900 surface in my region i will report to you.