Another Unlikely Stolen Iphone 3g Story!

[eatmyjoel]

ok so i have been reading about these guys who have "Found" an iphone and want to know how to use it and what not.

there all ********.

But! to my ironic disbelief my friend recently dropped her iphone and smashed the screen to pieces . she cant be botherd to get it fixed so has offered it to me for free. while she reports it stolen and gets a new one off her insurance.
pretty good deal to be honest, i can get the thing fixed for under 50 pound, but what will happen to the iphone once its reported.
i know i cannot take it into apple stores or anything idiotic like that, but can i just put my sim in which is on the same network as she was originally on? (02)

cheers

[velocityg4]

ok so i have been reading about these guys who have "Found" an iphone and want to know how to use it and what not.

there all ********.

But! to my ironic disbelief my friend recently dropped her iphone and smashed the screen to pieces . she cant be botherd to get it fixed so has offered it to me for free. while she reports it stolen and gets a new one off her insurance.
pretty good deal to be honest, i can get the thing fixed for under 50 pound, but what will happen to the iphone once its reported.
i know i cannot take it into apple stores or anything idiotic like that, but can i just put my sim in which is on the same network as she was originally on? (02)

cheers

I would think the ESN would make it unusable. But I do not know if that applies with sim cards.

Also I don't think the iPhone will work with any old sim card without some hack to unlock it.

[mbpnewbie]

Heere, in the UK atleast, you could get someones' contract Iphone, stick a PAYG sim in there of the same carrier and be fine. Iphone is on o2 in the uk, so an o2 sim from say a blackberry or similar would work... I only say substitute with a sim that has dat on it already, as PAYG data is EXPENSIVE

[dukebound85]

hoorah for fraud:cool:

[Schtumple]

hoorah for fraud:cool:

Glad someone picked up on that :p

[jmann]

So I believe once the phone is claimed by the insurance the "stolen" one becomes property of the insurance company and it is definitely considered fraud if you have/keep it. I know when some loses their phone with Verizon and needs to have it replaced by Asurion, the original phone becomes their property "technically". So I wouldn't go down that path if I were you.

[Schtumple]

Something else I just remembered, I'm pretty sure once the old phone is deemed stolen, it is deactivated, rendering it literally useless.

[VPrime]

The IMEI is deactivated, you will not beable to use that phone on that network again.
You can switch to another network, or change the imei (illegal).