Comments on: Getting phonejacked for my Nokia N95 in London Town

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HackCollege » Stop Losing Your Numbers: Get Zyb! — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 16:33:16 +0000

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By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 01:24:00 +0000

Ah, the joys of living in the Uk where people still get jacked for phones. Lol.

By: Nasser

Nasser — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:48:32 +0000

Glad to hear you are alright Ewan.

I last time I had my phone jacked (8210i) was a few years back. This greasy little toe-rag decided to snatch my phone outside a tube station riding by on a bike, the audacity of it! I should have known better not to pull out the phone given I was in Stepney Green in East London.

I actually gave chase and if it wasn’t for my heavy Timerland’s and bag I would have caught the little prick and given him a good hiding. I even got some help from a cab driver who helped try to find the tower block he sprouted from but alas no luck. I never thought this idiot could have pulled a knife on me or anything. I actually didn’t care about the phone or the numbers on it, it was more about getting even. Hard work and sweat went in to buying that phone and I was upset someone could just swipe it off me.

I was upset for days wishing I could replay the event “my way”. The first 10 minutes of the Wesley Snipes movie “Blade” were great template for my vengence.

I got over it but my lesson was learnt.

By: Jeb

Jeb — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:54:51 +0000

My question about Zyb is, does it keep the labels I associate with the numbers? For example I have my parents 2 cell phones and 1 home line all under my parents name, so I also label the #rs with Mom and Dad so I know who belongs to what number. Does Zyb copy this from a Nokia S60V3 phone like an E61i?

By the way Ewan you should check out the E61i if you still like the E61 layout but want a little more. Just a suggestion.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:43:04 +0000

there is a lot of anti-theft software for mobiles available. Track the movements of your mobile, using the gsm cell-id localization with this free software: http://www.symbian-toys.com/ or gain informations about the thief, monitoring his activities like sent and received sms, incoming and outgoing calls, phonebooks contacts added.
“Theft” is also a great software solution: http://www.symbianbrains.co.uk/
If stolen a siren goes off. If you call your mobile you will be notified of the new number if the thief changes your SIM. It does a lot more- some things are truly stunning ->�14.99

By: steve procter

steve procter — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:26:36 +0000

yeah leave the karate kicks out mate. Otherwise we’ll be having an SMSTextNews Summer party with grapes and ribena in the nearest hospital and then an Autumn party at the local magistrates where you’d be had up for sticking the little toerags human rights up his jacksy!!

steve

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 15:23:31 +0000

http://www.symbiangear.com/platform_psion/produkt.html?id=129296

Have used this software several times myself – to find my phone when the wee darlings have hidden it from daddy…once at the bottom of a 5ft high pile of dead leaves.

I bet your burglar would have dropped the handset like a hot potato once the alarm started going off. You can pull the battery of course, but when you reinsert it, with or without a USIM, it starts going off again. Good stuff.

At �6, money well spent (in advance of course)

By: njar

njar — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:40:44 +0000

isn’t the whole zyb thing a bit redundant if your phone comes with a data cable and a lightweight bit of pc software to store numbers?

By: SMS Text News » UK Gov tackle mobile theft with txt spk

SMS Text News » UK Gov tackle mobile theft with txt spk — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:28:01 +0000

[...] rather ironic timing after Ewan’s recent mobile phone theft, the UK Government have announced a �500k advertising campaign aimed at reducing mobile phone [...]

By: Rosario

Rosario — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:25:25 +0000

I got my phone stolen in Madrid like that. I cried. But, true. That was before I heard of ZYB.

By: njar

njar — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:13:56 +0000

might have been fairly amusing to trach him and his phone using LBS or the onboard GPS. Presumably you’d find which tower block he was in, but would struggle with the correct floor! Although O2 (had you been on this network) passes back a ‘height above sea-level’ reference on LBS, so perhaps you could have worked out the floor after all

BTW you absolutely did the right thing in not reacting. If you’d done anything macho, you’d be in court about now getting done for assault.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:03:33 +0000

I agree 100% with Mark. Any idiot can weild a knife in your ribs, it takes a genius to have all his contacts backed up and another rich media device in the other pocket.

We had a similarish experience with selling a mobile on eBay, ending in death threats. I take great solace in the knowledge that I have a loving family and a long, happy life ahead, whereas phone crims already suffer a life of misery and look forward only to the eventual slide into long grey oblivion.

Someone must be doing an N95 background app that will receive an SMS and transmit the GPS location? I have software that will lock the phone on USIM change and emit a really loud alarm sound. You can also wipe the contents remotely too.

Chin up

Mike

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 11:17:00 +0000

Ewan,

You were lucky you weren’t stabbed, which you quite easily could have been if you had of followed Fatty….

I know its annoying but you never see a knife until its all over, so you took the very best course of action in my book. Its just not worth it..

Hopefully that loser will sell the phone to some local hard guy who will sort him out when he realises its not working…

Remember….. Karma is a wonderful thing!

Mark