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What do you do with a sketchy found phone?
Hi. This is an unusual first post. I was going to ask some questions about iOS drum apps, but there's no rush on that, so it can wait. My question now is about something strange that just happened so it's my immediate concern.
I just found a phone on my front porch. It's a backup house in a remote location where I go to when I want to write. I'm not here a lot, and I don't have any close neighbors. It was raining when I found the phone. The phone was right at the edge of the porch by a porch post, so it was getting seriously wet. My first thought was just to get the phone out of the rain.
My next thought was to figure out who owned the phone so I could return it. The phone had zero charge on it, so it could have been sitting there for days or a week or whatever. I'm charging the phone now. The phone does work, but once I get to the locked screen I can't get past that.
Once I turned on the phone notifications rolled in like crazy. Some calls have come in so I've answered the calls, but that's only been confusing. When I've started to explain the situation the people have quickly hung up on me.
In the notifications I can see that there have been messages from a contact named Mom. A phone number is listed for Mom. That seemed like a promising lead, but when I've called the number, with another phone, I just hear a bunch of muffled voices in the background and then I get hung up on.
I googled the number listed for Mom, and that's when things started to bother me. The number has dozens of warnings connected to it. Either Mom isn't really a mom, or mom is someone who routinely scams people by phone. I would happier if I hadn't called the number in the first place.
As I've been typing this post there have already been a few credit card approval notifications coming in on the phone. The whole thing is getting sketchier all the time. I'm definitely curious about how the phone wound up on my porch, but at this point I don't really want to contact the phone's owner.
My inclination now is to just deliver the phone to the local police. A lost phone doesn't always seem like a police matter, but in this case it might be. I just answered another call, from someone who hung up on me the second that I explained the situation. Ordinary people would probably try to be helpful with information. Criminals would get gone ASAP.
Just out of curiosity, what would you do with the phone now?
By the way, hi to everyone out there. I apologize for making such a bizarre first post.
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Take it to the Police. They should be able to sort it out. Sorry forgot to say welcome to the forum too.
I would turn it in to the cops.
I would also keep an eye on the backup house.
And I would say ‘welcome to the forum.’
Thanks for the info. It's good to know that I'm not out of line in wanting to turn the phone over to the police.
I will have a few drum questions soon. I'm working on getting midi files imported into some drum apps. My results have been mixed so far.
Dude plz make sure you did not have squatters or others in your house. Maybe doing drug deals or something very sketchy. Be safe!!
I would immediately un-jailbreak it.
Police will do nothing. Just toss it in the trash.
I found one once and opened the back and could see which carrier it was. I then just dropped it off at the store.
I went ahead and took the phone to the police station. That way I could ask them to keep an eye on the house. I don't see any signs in the house that anyone has squatted there, but the phone had to get to my porch somehow.
Years ago I had a spare house that I had used as a work house and a warehouse for a seasonal business. One day I got there and the lights were on and the air-conditioner was running. There was food in the refrigerator. There was a food dish and a water dish for a dog on the floor. A hole had been knocked in a window, so that was how the squatter first got access. The neighbors never saw anyone, and they never saw the dog, so it was a stealthy squatter.
I would’ve kept the phone and sung the pina colada song into it whenever anyone called, especially mom.
Mysterious! Definitely a sketchy phone. You might install a camera at your house, they are really inexpensive nowadays. Mine has been handy every now and then with hobo activity.
You're a writer so..... write about it, it's already sounding like a good who done gone and done done it again.
btw best first post
At first I actually thought that they were just looking for ideas for their writing project... still curious if that may be the case to be honest.
Yea i doubt police would do anything with it. I say figure a way to unlock it and keep it yourself if you have any need for it. I guess giving it to cops wouldnt do any harm tho, i guess it depends on where you live also
Before I gave the phone to the police I did get a few more items of interest from it. One of the incoming messages referred to an email address. That email address had a name built into it.
Then I got a call from someone who thought that I was that person. In other words the caller called me by the first name of the name that was in the email address. As soon as I hesitated the caller got spooked and ditched the call crazy fast.
Then there was a call about social security benefits. There were a handful of calls about payday loans. The funds were ready to be picked up. There were more credit card approvals. The owner of the phone had been busy. I'll give him credit for that.
None of that explains how the phone wound up on my porch during a rainstorm. I just might install a camera. I would love to have video of the guy who left the phone. I'm still tempted to email him, but there's no need to poke that wasp nest.
I would deff be putting up a camera man that's really sketchy.
Give it to the police as soon as possible- tell them the whole story. If you don’t get a camera at least get the fake cctv warning signs. I see the last post was last week- what have you done?
I can see it now, stranger things next season plot unfolding right before our eyes
I'm tellin yah, we are being used for a writing prompt fulfillment experiment. This is a conspiracy of the literary degree.
I agree. Crazier things have happened, but something's off about this and seems fishy. The stories of people calling and acting freaked out, the sim card not being deactivated after a few days. And the whole just plug it into your computer and factory reset it option. And plus, why would you keep it around un-erased considering the possibility of Find My iPhone being used.
Also after a re-read, the story set-up of mentioning the pelting, inclement rain and the intense desire to heroically deliver the phone from a fate as a piece of ephemera seems excessive.
So, did you have any questions about drum apps?
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First off, you should be able to find my drum questions by clicking on my name and then doing a few taps, or mouse clicks.
Secondly, nobody in the entire phone issue has ever freaked out. Not that I know of anyway. The people just hung up on me, and they hung up fast. If the people freaked out after they hung up then I have no way of knowing about that.
I already explained that I turned the phone over to the police. I turned the phone over to the police probably within an hour of making my OP here. At that point the drama was mostly over and done with for me. I don't know what the police did.
The only dramatic twist I added after that was mentioning that I might have learned the name of the phone's owner. It might have been the guy's actual name, but not necessarily. I'm 100% sure that the owner of the phone was a criminal.
If I was making stuff up then I could make up details that are way more interesting than anything I've said about the phone. You can think whatever you want. I'm mainly just a drummer, along with playing guitar and bass, but mainly drums.
II'm halfway pissed off right now, but I'll get over it. You're calling me a liar, and you're suggesting that I'm some kind of weird-ass liar who would make up a story just for kicks.
You're evidently a suspicious crowd. That might be justified by all sorts of valid reasons to be suspicious about anyone and everything. Beats me, but I don't have to like it.
I shouldn't do any type of communication when I'm mad, but I'd like to ask @mjcouche what amuses him.
I asked my drum questions soon after my first phone post. It literally takes anyone a few seconds of research to see that, which would be a much better course of action than to call me a liar and laugh at me.
If that's the way that you're going to be then fuck off. There's some drama for you. Are you happy now?
true story or not Mr./Ms. Cave is talented beyond drumming, conveyance was thoughtful with just the right accent of tension.
That's good advice for anybody. If someone sends you an email, or posts on a forum, and it really pisses you off don't reply for at least 24 hours. Write a stinging, witty reply, by all means. Rewrite it. Polish it and sharpen it until it cuts - but don't actually post or send (removing the person's address from the 'to' field before you start drafting is always a good idea: really easy to send accidently).
If you still feel the same way a day later ... give it another day.
Re the phone: you don't actually tell us where you are. If you are in the US it's probably a matter of working out which branch of law enforcement will listen. (different in my country: one police department for the whole country, and they all share the same databases) If you know the phone's owner's name why not ring your local detectives or DEA or even the FBI and drop the name. If they are interested in that person they'll come and get it.
Man, I was just riffin. It's only the internet. I'll leave it at that.