Originally Posted by ryannn:
“If its block you can have it unblocked and then sell it on ebay, or just sell it on ebay, if you hand it in to tha pigs they will probly end up selling at some police auction in 3 years time,”
Just remember before anyone does this that to get around the network's blocking methods normally means changing the phone's IMEI number and under current Uk law this is illegal and you could end up with a custodial sentence of up to five years!
This may seem harsh, but the law was changed to deter people from stealing phones and to cut insurance fraud etc. as the mobile phone crime and violent mobile phone crimes were rising at an alarming rate.
Do the honest thing, hand it in.
My sister in law found a mobile on the train last year and brought it to our house as she was visiting us. I was going to take it to the Police station, but realised that the phone was an Orange phone. I called Orange customer services and was told that they couldn't give me any details of the owner, but that they could take my details and pass them on to the owner if I was happy to do this, although they stated it was 100% my choice to hand my details over or not.
I agreed and passed my mobile number to Orange and in turn they gave it to the registered owner of the phone.
The phone turned out to be a young boy's pay as you go phone that he had for his birthday some months previous and he was gutted to have lost it. His Dad called me and thanked me for being honest etc. and I got his mailing address and forwarded it to them. It only cost a couple of quid and a jiffy bag and he offered to reimburse me of any expense that I had to go through to get the phone back to them.
Had I have kept the phone it would have been wrong and illegal. Sending the phone back wasn't just the right thing to do, but it also cheered the young lad up.
You could do this, or you could just take it to the Police station and remember to get a receipt for handing it in, but imagine how happy the owner will be when it returns to them.