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Stolen phone.
If a friend has their mobile stolen, emails you asking for your number again for their new phone, but without reading that email, texts you, and their name comes up as sender ..... how is that possible? (on my phone its just giving their name, not number, so I can't tell if its their old number ie; phone not really stolen
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I don't really understand what you mean? You're saying a friend has had a phone "stolen" yet sent you a text and you think the text is from the "stolen" mobile?
Look in the message options, it has to show the number somewhere. Do you have more than one number for this person in your phone book? |
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Originally Posted by Embrace
I don't really understand what you mean? You're saying a friend has had a phone "stolen" yet sent you a text and you think the text is from the "stolen" mobile?
Look in the message options, it has to show the number somewhere. Do you have more than one number for this person in your phone book? Yeah, how can they text me with their new phone & their name appears? Can't find the number anywhere in Options or anything. |
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Thanks
Yeah, how can they text me with their new phone & their name appears? Can't find the number anywhere in Options or anything.
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Their name comes up when they text me..... is that possible at all if their phone was stolen? Or did they lie that their phone was stolen
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Their name comes up when they text me..... is that possible at all if their phone was stolen? Or did they lie that their phone was stolen
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I appreciate your efforts to help but, perhaps you should read the original post again ... slowly.
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When your phone and sim are stolen, they block the stolen simcard and then they immediately transfer your number onto a new simcard. This way your number never changes, all that changes is the actual simcard (and I presume that simcards have a serial number). Hope this helps
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Hi
When your phone and sim are stolen, they block the stolen simcard and then they immediately transfer your number onto a new simcard. This way your number never changes, all that changes is the actual simcard (and I presume that simcards have a serial number). Hope this helps ![]() |
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When your phone and sim are stolen, they block the stolen simcard and then they immediately transfer your number onto a new simcard. This way your number never changes, all that changes is the actual simcard (and I presume that simcards have a serial number). Hope this helps ![]() |
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Thanks, I'm still struggling with this, they get a new sim that has their old number ..... but not their saved contacts? That would account for their name appearing on my phone but, how did they have my number again to send the text? Got it from somebody else mabye?
I know you say that they haven't read your email giving your number, but there is a possibility that they have marked your email as unread (I do this with junk mail and it is quite easy to do accidently when you are doing a lot at a time).
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Originally Posted by Oldvinyl
Thanks, I'm still struggling with this, they get a new sim that has their old number ..... but not their saved contacts? That would account for their name appearing on my phone but, how did they have my number again to send the text? Got it from somebody else mabye?
Phones get stolen everyday it's sad yeah but if your friend has a new SIM card and phone just move on and let it go.
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You can buy a simcard backup device for about a tenner which will store all your contacts from your simcard and then you download them again onto your simcard and you can also back up your simcard contacts to Outlook on windows and download them onto your new simcard.
I know you say that they haven't read your email giving your number, but there is a possibility that they have marked your email as unread (I do this with junk mail and it is quite easy to do accidently when you are doing a lot at a time). ![]() They actually didnt read the email. So .... is the only place they obtained my number ....... from another person? |
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I've never known anything like it. They had their number transferred. End of!
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