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So I bought a Incredible off Craigslist... Verizon says lost or stolen

Grrr... do not know what to, came with box and everthing so I did not expect it to have a bad ESN. Is it worth paying someone to flash to Cricket then Re-Craigslist it for Cricket only. I rooted my exsisting Eris but have no way to test if settings I make for DIC to Cricket will work.
Any ideas or opinions? Besides flames for being an idiot.
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GoghAndroid said:
Grrr... do not know what to, came with box and everthing so I did not expect it to have a bad ESN. Is it worth paying someone to flash to Cricket then Re-Craigslist it for Cricket only. I rooted my exsisting Eris but have no way to test if settings I make for DIC to Cricket will work.
Any ideas or opinions? Besides flames for being an idiot.
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Can you return it to the idiot that sold it to you
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Trying to, he is on the otherside of town and of course will not email back. I about died when they said I couldn't activate.
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That's why it's always good to meet right at VZW and have them check the ESN right on the spot....the dude probably stole it and sold it. He may also have called you from a payphone...Good luck getting a hold of him.

If it really is lost or stolen, I bet the actual owner would like to have it back. Won't VZW help with this? Any identifying data on the phone?

GoghAndroid said:
Grrr... do not know what to, came with box and everthing so I did not expect it to have a bad ESN. Is it worth paying someone to flash to Cricket then Re-Craigslist it for Cricket only. I rooted my exsisting Eris but have no way to test if settings I make for DIC to Cricket will work.
Any ideas or opinions? Besides flames for being an idiot.
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the police should be able to help you, as it is illegal to sell stolen goods. or wait six months for verizon to take it off the blacklist.

Find out who owns it and give it back, that would be the right thing to do. You can't use it anyway. Try to work something out with the owner.

cantare said:
If it really is lost or stolen, I bet the actual owner would like to have it back. Won't VZW help with this? Any identifying data on the phone?
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Once a ESN is blacklisted I though even VZW couldnt remove it? So even if they got the phone back it would be useless

My assumption is the phone was reported lost then replaced, found then sold.
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for what it is worth, I was a VZW store manager for years until just a few weeks ago when I left for a new job.
they can track the ESN back to whoever owned it, they will be able to contact that person for you, and tell them that a person has thier phone and they can contact you if they wish, and they will give that person your number. they will not give you the person's number(legal reasons obviously).
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a more likely situation, the guy who sold it to you used what is called a lost, stolen, damaged upgrade. many store managers use it to get a customer a device they want(like the wanted a droidX). this automatically puts thier old device on the LSD list. if it is on there you can really be VERY nice and butter up the store manager and don't be a douche and yell at them...and they can call into CS and have it taken off the list sometimes.
anyways, good luck, sorry you got screwed.

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for what it is worth, I was a VZW store manager for years until just a few weeks ago when I left for a new job.
they can track the ESN back to whoever owned it, they will be able to contact that person for you, and tell them that a person has thier phone and they can contact you if they wish, and they will give that person your number. they will not give you the person's number(legal reasons obviously).
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a more likely situation, the guy who sold it to you used what is called a lost, stolen, damaged upgrade. many store managers use it to get a customer a device they want(like the wanted a droidX). this automatically puts thier old device on the LSD list. if it is on there you can really be VERY nice and butter up the store manager and don't be a douche and yell at them...and they can call into CS and have it taken off the list sometimes.
anyways, good luck, sorry you got screwed.
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Guess I was wrong lol

The thing is that the guy already paid for it, so it just sucks...I would suggest:
-File a police report
-Try to get a hold of the guy and meet with him (or with police, so he tells truth)
-Make him refund the money and then try to give it back to the person or VZW (I am sure the original owner has a different phone now)
It is tough but just sad.

insurance claim for lost vibrant

so my friend got a vibrant, and he wanted to file a claim for a lost phone to get one for his brother. as far as I know this is illegal. can you guys give me some examples of things that might happen to him if he goes through with it or some possible consequences? "it's illegal" isn't seeming to convince him.

Insurnce fraud. He would go to jail most likely.
TMobile can track the missing phone using gps and cell towers. They'll see where the phone is and get it for him instead of giving him a new one.
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gonintendo said:
so my friend got a vibrant, and he wanted to file a claim for a lost phone to get one for his brother. as far as I know this is illegal. can you guys give me some examples of things that might happen to him if he goes through with it or some possible consequences? "it's illegal" isn't seeming to convince him.
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Well your friend is slightly dumb. First of all, the lost phone is blocked for life. Meaning if anyone ever tries to put a sim card in it, and use it, on any network, it won't work. It is permanently blocked from registering onto any network. So basically your friend is going to get 1 refurbished phone in the mail, and his new vibrant will be blacklisted for ever.
Next, if they find out about the fraud, well he can face fraud charges. If he is underage on a family plan, his parents will face fraud charges.
Good luck.

thanks guys!

Its cheaper to buy one from wal-mart than to file a claim (Wal-mart new two year contract is $98.99, asurion charges $130, not to mention you run the risk (more likely than not) you'd get caught.)

SamsungVibrant said:
Well your friend is slightly dumb. First of all, the lost phone is blocked for life. Meaning if anyone ever tries to put a sim card in it, and use it, on any network, it won't work. It is permanently blocked from registering onto any network. So basically your friend is going to get 1 refurbished phone in the mail, and his new vibrant will be blacklisted for ever.
Next, if they find out about the fraud, well he can face fraud charges. If he is underage on a family plan, his parents will face fraud charges.
Good luck.
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well i have to say this is a bunch of bs... i havent done this but known people that have and nothing happens to the other phone they work fine and they dont track you down or go on some sort of man hunt lol but if you say you lost your phone it would be best to not use it anymore get another phone and give the one you had to whoever as long as its not on your plan you should be good.
just so you know im not a fan of thieves but i believe in stealing from big companies cause they steal from people everyday so i would say its fair...

You can do whatever you wish. I found my g1 from a club. Used it for 2 years no prob. Its a gsm phone so whatever the case anyone can put a sim card and use it. How you do it as far as claiming to get a new one is your business
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tribalb said:
You can do whatever you wish. I found my g1 from a club. Used it for 2 years no prob. Its a gsm phone so whatever the case anyone can put a sim card and use it. How you do it as far as claiming to get a new one is your business
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lucky guy... i need to start going to clubs to look for phones lol

They will not blacklist it and they will not track it down.lol
Insurance don't deal with the phone company. You can claim online without ever speaking to anyone .
Also they do blacklist the sim but a new sim will work, this isn't cdma where ya need to call the phone company to activate a new bought phone, just put in your sim...
Hell who says ya can't lose it, then find it a week later, what you supposed to do send it back?
You pay the 130 you got 2 phones that work. My wife just lost her tp2 and we asked if whoever found it can just put on a new card and its now there phone, dude said yup, we can stop the sim but the phone is gone....

gonintendo said:
can you guys give me some examples of things that might happen to him if he goes through with it or some possible consequences? "it's illegal" isn't seeming to convince him.
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Well, tell your friend that when he dies god is going to know he did it and will definitely be really pissed off and condemn him to spend all eternity in Pittsburgh with an incurable case of crabs on his nuts.
Seriously though, tell your friend to stop being shady and just man up and buy another phone if he wants it.
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smashpunks said:
They will not blacklist it and they will not track it down.lol
Insurance don't deal with the phone company. You can claim online without ever speaking to anyone .
Also they do blacklist the sim but a new sim will work, this isn't cdma where ya need to call the phone company to activate a new bought phone, just put in your sim...
Hell who says ya can't lose it, then find it a week later, what you supposed to do send it back?
You pay the 130 you got 2 phones that work. My wife just lost her tp2 and we asked if whoever found it can just put on a new card and its now there phone, dude said yup, we can stop the sim but the phone is gone....
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actually you can say you still have your sim but not the phone and they will be like ok? and you get to keep your sim still lol

T-Mobile can and most likely will block the IMEI number from being able to register on the network. They've done it multiple times for my sister when she has had the phone stolen or lost. They can insert another SIM card all they want and it won't work. It might work on AT&T, I don't know if the companies share blacklisted IMEI numbers.
Most likely, they would not go through the process of prosecuting a fraud case on something like this because the cost of the lawyers and other legal fees outweigh the cost of just paying the claim but you never know.

hockeyrcks9901 said:
T-Mobile can and most likely will block the IMEI number from being able to register on the network. They've done it multiple times for my sister when she has had the phone stolen or lost. They can insert another SIM card all they want and it won't work. It might work on AT&T, I don't know if the companies share blacklisted IMEI numbers.
Most likely, they would not go through the process of prosecuting a fraud case on something like this because the cost of the lawyers and other legal fees outweigh the cost of just paying the claim but you never know.
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No they don't black list IMEIs.
Well your "friend" meaning you is a complete moron and hopefully you get caught. People like you are the reason insurance deductibles are so expensive.

skater4690 said:
well i have to say this is a bunch of bs... i havent done this but known people that have and nothing happens to the other phone they work fine and they dont track you down or go on some sort of man hunt lol but if you say you lost your phone it would be best to not use it anymore get another phone and give the one you had to whoever as long as its not on your plan you should be good.
just so you know im not a fan of thieves but i believe in stealing from big companies cause they steal from people everyday so i would say its fair...
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I never said they were going to track you down on a man hunt.
HOWEVER, they do deactivate your lost phone permanently. You can never use it on any network.

speoples20 said:
No they don't black list IMEIs.
Well your "friend" meaning you is a complete moron and hopefully you get caught. People like you are the reason insurance deductibles are so expensive.
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for your information, they do blacklist the phone from working. If you file a claim the phone was lost/stolen, the phone will be blacklisted and no longer work when you try to register on a network.

smashpunks said:
My wife just lost her tp2 and we asked if whoever found it can just put on a new card and its now there phone, dude said yup, we can stop the sim but the phone is gone....
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holly cow, you have a wife? with the comments you leave on here, I thought you were a 12 yr old.

they don't blacklist the IMEI because whoever finds it still has to have a service provider... its the same way with the iphone... Phone company is gonna get paid, regardless of whoever has the phone. I do think however that they lock the number associated with the simcard to prevent "fraudulent activities" i think its like 30 days i remember reading that at the tmobile website
google tmobile insurance replacement FAQs it lays it all out.
good luck, best to do it with a prepaid card so you don't lock a good number...
not that i would ever condone such behavior

Soooo not true.
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I've been in the cell industry for the last 6 years and can tell you for a fact, with GSM phones they do not blacklist or lock IMEI's. Its not even possible. The only thing they might do is see if you are stupid enough to use the lost phone on your own plan.

SamsungVibrant said:
holly cow, you have a wife? with the comments you leave on here, I thought you were a 12 yr old.
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I think I have a fan. Follow me on twitter douche bag...
And I'm the 12 year old sounding one.lol.

If your last name.....

.....is Nelson or you have phone insurance, you might want to read this post.
(Let me preface this by saying I'm a Sprint Premier customer the hard way, 10+ years of service.)
I had to have my phone replaced through the ins. plan via Sprint through Asurion. Their website *specifically* says that if you submit your claim before 11pm, you'd have your phone the next day. Cool, I paid my $100 ded. and submitted it @ 948pm CST. Thurs. rolls around, and still no phone, no email about a tracking number, nothing. So I called and was advised the phone was shipped, and that if I checked back a little later, I'd have a tracking number in my email. True to the reps word, that happened. The phone arrived this morning around 930. It was a BRAND NEW PHONE (2.2) b/c there aren't any refurb'ed EVOs. Heck yeah! So I called and had it activated, and the guy kept calling me by the wrong last name. I didn't think anything of it, I had a BRAND NEW EVO. I made a test call, it went through, and I was on my way.
Fast forward to around 400 this afternoon. My boy told me he called and the phone went straight to voice mail, so he left me a message. Eh? No message notification, no nothing. I called it from my work phone....same thing. I tried to access v/m, and I was unable to, as it kept trying set up v/m, repeatedly. I start flipping through the phone settings trying to figure out what was up. And then I came to the "phone info" screen....and the phone number listed wasn't my phone number, and the "@sprintpcs.com" address wasn't mine either! The last name, Nelson, was the same one the rep kept calling me earlier.
Now, the gist of this is that I can call out on this account (his number appears on the caller id), and I can text out, but I can't receive incoming calls or texts. So I can call anyone, anywhere. On someone else's account.
I called up Sprint to let them know they activated this phone on the wrong account. The rep I spoke to, Kim, couldn't understand what was going on. It took me a good 5 mins before she finally caught on. She forwarded me to tech support to talk to another lady named Kim. She wanted me to do a factory reset, which I did, and reboot, which I did. Checked the info, it was the same. She was stumped, said it was up to Asurion to rectify, so she had a conference call with them. The rep said that they would have to send me another phone. I asked if it would arrive the next day, and he said it wouldn't arrive until *Monday*. Uh, no, that isn't reasonable. I asked to speak to a supervisor, so he transferred me. She said the same thing. I was furious. I asked her how this happened. Get this: the lady told me that it was because HTC ran out of serial numbers and this serial number is the same as Mr. Nelson's EVO, which is active. W.T.H. Do you *seriously* expect me to believe that garbage? Yup, she sure did. Well, I surmised, they're going to re-serial this phone and use it, so my thought process is that I can have them use the serial and ESN from my old phone and transfer it to my *new* phone. She said that I would have to call Sprint to ask that. I'm glad I got transferred to the phone survey after the call, b/c I let them know under *no* uncertain terms how upset I was.
I called Sprint again. The rep listened as I started by the beginning, explaining the whole "port my old serial/ESN to the new phone" so I didn't have to use some stranger's account and I could get phone calls this weekend. She transferred me to her supervisor, Clark. Clark listened intently, and rotated between asking me questions and putting me on hold. He finally came back and said, "So, you want me to turn off your phone number." *sigh*. I again explained that, HELLO, I AM RUNNING UP SOMEONE ELSE'S ACCOUNT. So then I got transferred to a MANAGER (guy sounded like he was on the NE coast). So I went through my situation AGAIN. He said, "Can you call me on a demo number so I can see what number shows?" As I had already done this with my g/f, I told him, it's the other guys phone number. He said okay, that he would notate his account so that they would STOP HIS STATEMENT FROM COMING TO HIM so they could sanitize it of my calls.
So, the long and the short of it is:
1) I won't have a fully working phone until Monday
2) No one did a [email protected] thing to help me get a phone before the weekend
3) I have an outbound-only clone of some strange guy's phone, and can make calls and send texts from this phone and no one cares enough about it to stop me or to notify this man.
4) Oh, and one of the myriad of people I spoke to told me that I couldn't go into the store and pick up another phone. I guess no one thought about letting me pick up a phone there and sending my "on the way" phone to the store to replace the one I picked up.
So, if your last name is Nelson and you have an 815 area code EVO, chances are I'm making calls on your account. I'm trying not to use it, but I'm kinda stuck. Sorry.
Yay.

Wow man, quite a story. Lol.
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lol thats crazy.
I seriously doubt HTC ran out of serials.

Well damn.....
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Sprint's customer service sucks... No credit, no nothing? Damn... They have great prices, but tmo trumps all the carriers with their customer service imho. SMH...

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Sprint's customer service sucks... No credit, no nothing? Damn... They have great prices, but tmo trumps all the carriers with their customer service imho. SMH...
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Agreed! I plan on going back to T-mo after my 2 year EVO contract is up.

U should make some international calls, load up the account and have sprint to suck it up.
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Hahah. What fing idiots. I love how no one cares anymore - at the least they should have come up with a semi-believable story for you, and made sure the guy's account that you're on isn't totally screwed over.
Spring has great prices, but you pay for it when it comes to 3g service, dropped calls, and CS!

815 is northern mchenry county illinois, thats out by me, poor fellow. guess thats asurion for you though.
you could always try to *cough*cdmaworkshopit*cough*

Sprint reps are idiots. I get annoyed having to call in because I know I'll bee in for it.
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haha, I love sprint. *rolls eyes*. I have been with them for roughly 6 years now, so I know all about that "Customer Service".

Are these people randomly plucked from the streets? Hey ill go be a cs! If I feel like being an idiot one day, ill get away with it. Lol
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Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..

latoso said:
Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..
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lol Of course you wouldn't expect Sprint to give out working phones, what a ridiculous idea. It's all the fault of people who root their phones.

HEY!!!!!!!!!! I'm Mr Nelson!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow sounds just like something that would happen to me.

latoso said:
Is not sprints fault the samething happen to me. This is because you idiots trying to root their phones and they brake something and returned it ti sprint. I got a phone from craigslist I called sprint to swap my phone everything goes fine and than she tells that I have to get a new line for that phone because a have already five lines. After an hour on the phone no matter what we did we were unable thw guys profile. I called the giy since I had his information and ask him if did root the phone and he said yes but didnt work. Just look at the forums how many habe broken wimax or bricked phones and they blame the guys who made that metod to root..
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Fool. I had to call in my phone b/c it was lost/stolen, not b/c it was rooted.
And it has nothing to do with the new phone being rooted. As I stated in my first post, IT IS A BRAND NEW PHONE.
BTW, Mozilla has a built in spell-checker.

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U should make some international calls, load up the account and have sprint to suck it up.
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Dude....that's poopy. Thankfully, I've never had this issue and for me Sprint is always nice and resolves my issues quickly. Sounds like you got dealt a bad hand that day bro.

im not saying you rooted the phone for someone else info to be in the phone has to be activated. Just look at my brothwr in law got his phone on thursday tryed to rooted didnt work he got another one today and the phone he return is new where you think that phone is goin to. Asurion.

Rooting does not break a phone. And I would have asked for the manager's boss. It was their fault. They should have arranged a store pick up or overnight you one. A dishonest person could run up a huge phone bill for that guy to pay. I am sorry this happened. Hopefully everything is worked out.
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Help! Got a question!

Lets say if I theoretically shut off my vibrant and call T-Mobile and told them I lost my vibrant while shopping. Paid the insurance fee for another vibrant. Once I received my vibrant, gave my old vibrant to my girl, would she be able to use it or would T-Mobile lock the phone? And if T-Mobile would lock my original phone, is there a way to unlock it and use it? Just theoretically speaking!
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I suggest you ask T-Mobile directly....

Insurance fraud...

Theoretically you would be committing a crime. Not going to be an accessory.
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They can't"lock" it but I assume it'd be confusing if you both had the same sim card...but if she has a T-Mobile similar card of her own with data plans and etc yes it would work and T-Mobile wouldn't find out this is similar to buying the vibrant for $500 without the Contract.
So yes. Do what I said and it will work
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Your Sooooo Smart
Something to think about however. [Side note: I love how stupid criminals always post there illegal activities publicly and get caught. I will be listening for this one on my local radio station's "To stupid to live" spot in the near future.]
You post this in a VERY public VERY highly trafficed public forum frequented by both developers and T-Mobile employees. You used your normal account that already has your location (Bakersfield), 10 prior posts, and (via a warrant that you gave cause for with you original post) log files that tie you to your IP address with dates and times of every time you visit this site. Surely most if not all of those IP addresses (assuming they are dynamic and actually change) all belong to the same ISP who can easily look at there records and see which subscriber had the IP address at those times. Your ISP has your real name, address, phone number etc.
Two warrants later and the circumstantial evidence just became concrete enough to convict you.
But please, tell us more of your theoretical plan.

Nothing will happen, I done it with a few phones from tmobile. One thing though they wont send you the phone completly free, you will pay something like $50
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mikaeldalc said:
Lets say if I theoretically shut off my vibrant and call T-Mobile and told them I lost my vibrant while shopping...
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To start with this crap makes the cost of products go up for the ready off us that don't game the system...but hey, go for it, see of you get caught.
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mikaeldalc said:
Lets say if I theoretically shut off my vibrant and call T-Mobile and told them I lost my vibrant while shopping. Paid the insurance fee for another vibrant. Once I received my vibrant, gave my old vibrant to my girl, would she be able to use it or would T-Mobile lock the phone? And if T-Mobile would lock my original phone, is there a way to unlock it and use it? Just theoretically speaking!
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I hope they use your cell phone imei and prosecute you

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I hope they use your cell phone imei and prosecute you
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Oh Snap! I totally missed the "Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App" part when I explained earlier exactly how they wold find him. The ID10T actually sent this crap from his phone!! When his girlfriend uses the "LOST" phone they can bust them both.
LOL

I wont go into a big long post about how your theory is wrong (criminal), or how you will be caught its been covered. Oh wait nobody mentioned karma. I'll just say that its people like you that make it hard for the rest of us. First you drive up prices. Second you make it so that people with legitimate claims have to jump through hoops. So go ahead on with your fraud I for one know that if you go ahead with your scheme karma will catch up.
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T313C0mun1s7 said:
Something to think about however. [Side note: I love how stupid criminals always post there illegal activities publicly and get caught. I will be listening for this one on my local radio station's "To stupid to live" spot in the near future.]
You post this in a VERY public VERY highly trafficed public forum frequented by both developers and T-Mobile employees. You used your normal account that already has your location (Bakersfield), 10 prior posts, and (via a warrant that you gave cause for with you original post) log files that tie you to your IP address with dates and times of every time you visit this site. Surely most if not all of those IP addresses (assuming they are dynamic and actually change) all belong to the same ISP who can easily look at there records and see which subscriber had the IP address at those times. Your ISP has your real name, address, phone number etc.
Two warrants later and the circumstantial evidence just became concrete enough to convict you.
But please, tell us more of your theoretical plan.
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Yeah right. Them doing any of this for one phone, highly unlikely. The legal system sucks. Sad but true.
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vetvito said:
Yeah right. Them doing any of this for one phone, highly unlikely. The legal system sucks. Sad but true.
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Don't worry, he's a wuss, that's why he came here to ask instead of just doing it. The fact that they can easily find out will be enough to scare him, doesn't matter if they actually do it.

Telanis said:
Don't worry, he's a wuss, that's why he came here to ask instead of just doing it. The fact that they can easily find out will be enough to scare him, doesn't matter if they actually do it.
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how about that lady that got taken to court for downloading songs from napster she is facing a 21k fine different I know but why take the chance

This was a hypothetical question...ammirighhtt?? Two words eye may.
Don't blame me, blame my keyboard's autocorrection algorithm.

Hey hey, this is just theoretically thinking. Why all the hate mail... u
If it happens sooner or later, it would just b coincidence........

mikaeldalc said:
Hey hey, this is just theoretically thinking. Why all the hate mail... u
If it happens sooner or later, it would just b coincidence........
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Dude, you are scum. Dispense with the humor, because no one is amused by jerkoffs like you.
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mikaeldalc said:
Lets say if I theoretically shut off my vibrant and call T-Mobile and told them I lost my vibrant while shopping. Paid the insurance fee for another vibrant. Once I received my vibrant, gave my old vibrant to my girl, would she be able to use it or would T-Mobile lock the phone? And if T-Mobile would lock my original phone, is there a way to unlock it and use it? Just theoretically speaking!
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Well just theoretically speaking you would theoretically go to jail because that is theoretically insurance fraud and T-Mobile & Asurion, the theoretical insurance company about which you theoretically speak of can theoretically track IMEI's in use, and since Asurion is the primary theoretical insurance company for every theoretical wireless carrier, they would theoretically be able to track it no matter which theoretical wireless company your theoretical girlfriend was theoretically on. Theoretically speaking, of course.

How to get a an early upgrade ATT

I'm a relatively new att customer and the note was just annoinced and id like to get it for the contract price. Does anyone know workarounds to get it
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mariol66 said:
I'm a relatively new att customer and the note was just annoinced and id like to get it for the contract price. Does anyone know workarounds to get it
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when is your upgrade....
can do 30 days prior to your date call cs

I just got my plan in december so I'm locked in for awhile but I didn't know ajything about the note then so idk cn I claim my phone stolen?
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Hmm...for a note you'd have to get it outside att now....if you upgraded last december...
Stolen..not really...unless you have insurance and willing to pay the deductable....
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mariol66 said:
I'm a relatively new att customer and the note was just annoinced and id like to get it for the contract price. Does anyone know workarounds to get it
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My mom recently called complaining that her device was malfunctioning and they replaced her handset, she went through this process 3 times and at that point she said not to send her another phone, that she wanted a different phone. After many calls to customer service we finally got a hold of a really nice representative and she worked with her and she was able to "upgrade" to a Samsung Infuse which is MUCH nicer than the one she has now.

I had some legitimate issues with the Evo 4G, where my data connection would drop whenever I was inside a building, but as soon as I would get outside, or into the Sprint store, everything would run flawlessly. They kept telling me that there was nothing they could do because to them, it was working fine.. They told me, you can send your phone back for them to give you a new one, but that required me being without a Smart Phone for a week (which with my job, I use my Smart Phone everyday! I told them that was unacceptable) After many calls and complaints, I went into the store to get a new phone, where they informed me that there was a note on my account to let me get an early upgrade.
I think if you really want to get a different phone already, it might just be as simple as complaining that there is something wrong with your phone. However, they might want you to ship it back to have them give you a new phone of the same make (leaving you without a phone for a week or two) a few times before they even think about letting you get a different phone.
Try to find a legitimate flaw with your current phone, something that can't exactly be corrected, some seldom used feature that just doesn't work correctly, then complain like it's the end of the world