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A new website is launched to fight mobile phone crime |
axxxr
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Via: BBC
Mobile phone owners can register their details on the National Mobile Phone Register free of charge.
The service will allow stolen or lost handsets to be matched with their owners. It will also make it easier for mobile phone thieves to be prosecuted.
Registration involves typing in the mobile phone's 15-digit IMEI number (serial number). When a mobile phone is recovered, the IMEI number is checked against the register and the police contact the owner if any 'hits' are retrieved.
During a pilot test of the system, over 2,000 mobile phones were linked back to their original owners.
According to statistics released last year an average of 328 mobile phones are stolen in London every day, half of them from under 18s.
www.immobilise.co.uk
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Jake Blues
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i thought we were talking about this september/ october time?
maybe it was a very similar site but i remember checking out a site with the same idea.
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govigov
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Nice idea. Very practical.
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Pradhika
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To reduce the crime rate people should go for only vimal:-) Nokia.
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Posted: 2005-01-13 01:43
