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Found my lost iPhone but Serial and IMEI numbers on iphone and box no match

and crayon, you didnt get it... The phone is under investigation now. If there is no owner of the phone found, then it sits to wait for the 90 days. I'm NOT entitled to the phone unless an owner is not found by police and an owner does not claim it in 90 days. WHy is this upsetting people so? I think that a lot of people are just missing key details, such as the 90 day period.
 
And thank you muledogus, for making sense, understanding the reality, not just the science and technicalities of causation and coincidences, etc. We are not living in labs. Some times reasonable action needs to be taken when you are not 100% of the causation, etc.
 
Mr. Meld,
English is my fourth language (lol).
Yes, of course I got a replacement phone. What would anyone else have done. If the owner of the phone (who may very well not originally have been me) does not claim it, then it's going to someone I know that needs it. It's not being sold. I would have a right to sell it, it just happens not to be. I'm on a family member's plan who is looking to upgrade to iPhone, so it will be his.
Sorry I've been making multiple posts rather than making one with all my responses.
 
OMFG. Seriously. I hope and pray our paths never cross in this life. I'm going to take a wild stab at something.... only child?

1.) You still think it's your phone???? Seriously, you think there is a 1% chance it is your phone? The serial doesn't match, the IMEI doesn't match, the accessories like screen protector arn't there yet you think it's yours?

2.) Your not the entitled to the phone PERIOD. 90 days, no 90 days, either the phone should go back to the people who found it, or it should stay in lockup for the 0.5% chance the actual owner retrieves it. Past that you have as much claim to it as the other 6,706,993,152 in this world.

You think we're mistaken? Why is it so hard for us to understand? You are the person who doesn't understand:

If someone finds a phone that is turned into police, the owner has 90 days to claim the property. If the owner does not claim the property then it is returned to the person who found the phone.

Did you find the phone? No. Should you get the phone? No.

The fact that you still think it is your phone shows that you are pathological, ignorant, in denial or a thief. I'm not quite sure which one.

LRUmansky said:
and crayon, you didnt get it... The phone is under investigation now. If there is no owner of the phone found, then it sits to wait for the 90 days. I'm NOT entitled to the phone unless an owner is not found by police and an owner does not claim it in 90 days. WHy is this upsetting people so? I think that a lot of people are just missing key details, such as the 90 day period.
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Man, please explain this to all of us because this is why people are getting frustrated with your way of thinking.

1) It is NOT your phone. 150% positive, IMEI + Serial #'s Different = Not Your iPhone

2) This "suspect", which is a horrid way to refer to him as, found an iPhone and now the police have it in their possession.

3) After the 90 days, if the true owner does not claim it, you feel that it belongs to you?



You did not find it, AND it's not your phone so how in the heck do you get off telling people your entitled to it? it's quite mind-boggling that you in any way feel that you have any type of ownership to this device. If the true owner does not claim it in 90 days, then the true finder has priority to it.
 
jalpert said:
Past that you have as much claim to it as the other 6,706,993,152 in this world.
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Exactly, I lost my iPhone 2 months ago,do you think I should have looked for one that had the same specs, and told the police it was really mine?


jalpert said:
The fact that you still think it is your phone shows that you are pathological, ignorant, in denial or a thief.
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You forgot, or has low morals, low self-respect.
 
You're not quite getting the big picture here.

You didn't find the phone, the "suspects" found the phone. You didn't turn the phone in to the police, the police took the phone from the "suspects".

You will turn around and sell the phone, which will be the ultimate irony because at that point, your hands will be far dirtier than the "suspects" ever were.

I know, I know. You will say you WON'T sell the phone. You will site some unverifiable personal facts like you won BEST SAMARITAN and LOST GOODS RETURNER OF THE YEAR (2005, 2007, runner up 2008).

The unfortunate part of all this is that due to your retard vigilantism you most likely WILL get the phone. This is no doubt due to your incessant whining , or more likely, because the police feel like its their duty to help a mentally handicapped person such as yourself in any way they can.
 
i had my iphone and box different IMEI and serial number.. i suspect that it might be changed automaticly when i brought it to ibox and repaired it for having error in upgrading OS.. or when i bought it cuz the seller gave me 2 iphone and asked me to choose which one i wanted with the same colour and i chosed one of them but it wasnt working so he took the other one and i think that he took the first iphone box so everything is different.. actually i read some posts that iphone can change their original IMEI number when it is reset using some application.. so i think that that iphone that is on craiglist might be his iphone :apple:
 
LRUmansky said:
I left my iPhone at the gym in the locker room. I know exactly where it was let. It was not there an hour later (of course). And never was put into lost and found. It was a 16 gig, like new, screen protector, black.

I live in a suburb of Fort Lauderdale called Weston. The next morning, an ad was put on Craigslist for a phone matching mine and in Weston. It was a 'low' price of $400. It was the only iPhone in weston for sale for the past month. I suspected it must be mine.

I filed police report. Later, I arranged a meeting with the 'suspect.' It was VERY sketchy setting up the meeting at a home depot. Later, I included the police... An officer I talked to confronted the suspects (there was about 4 'salesmen' for the phone). They admitted to the cop it is not their phone, saying that it was found at a school the week before.

Anyhow, the phone was obtained and shown to me. There was no SIM card.

I know it's my phone. The circumstantial evidence above is too great.
HOWEVER:

The serial number that shows up on the phone (I'm not sure how the officer retrieved it without the sim card) comes up close to what's on my box, but 3 characters off. The IMEI number also does not match the box.

Both serials start with a few 8's. The first 5 characters of both serials match. The next three, which are three letters do not match; the last three characters, also letters, DO match. Basically the matching characters between the two serials (represented with '0') compared to unmatching characters ('x') are: 00000xxx000.

From what I can tell online, the IMEI number can be changed. And the serial number on the box of some iPhone boxes does not exactly match the actual phone.

I can't believe that it is NOT my phone. So, is it at all possible that the phone is mine? If so, how can I show that it IS my phone? How do I find out if someone 'owns' that IMEI number in the actual phone, and whose it is. If it 'belongs' to no one or if the person that it belongs to never claimed it missing or stolen, then would that show that this phone is likely mine?
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Those 3 characters are the only ones that make your serial number unique. The first 2 digits refer to the factory the phone came from, the 3rd digit refers to the year, the 4th and 5th digits refer to the week. The next 3 digits indicates the position in the batch. The last 3 digits refer to the specific model (3NR for example is a black 32GB iPhone 3GS locked to AT&T). Since the 3 letters indicating the position in that batch are alphanumeric, there are upto 46,656 iPhones that share the rest of the serial. I'm sure the store you bought your iPhone from had several from the same batch, so it's actually rather likely that there are other iPhones in your area differing only by those 3 characters of the serial number.

Cliff's: It's not your iPhone.

I'm not going to be the moral police and tell you whether or not to take the phone, but I can say with 100% certainty that it's not the same phone that you lost.
 
fishmd said:
WTH man...??? Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed. :p
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Apparently you and others simply can't read.

The OP is a loose nut that lost his phone, decided that he would seek out someone else selling an iPhone, and try to forcibly take possession of it.

The OP is a criminal, as far as I'm concerned. The hilarious part is that no one would know that he had criminal intent, had he not posted it here.
 
jalpert said:
I guess you didn't read his post very well.

1.) He automatically assumed the phone on craigs list was his.
2.) He filed a police report which is fine, but without knowing the phone was his, the police had no business with any further involvement.
3.) HE IS TRYING TO TAKE POSSESSION OF A PHONE THAT IS NOT HIS, A PHONE THAT HE DID NOT FIND. Here is the quote since you have reading problems:

"lost and found policy in my area is that if the owner does not take claim of the property then the finder gets it (90 days after finding it). I've talked to the officer, and he seems to be on my side as far as being considered the finder."
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Who are you?! Due to his efforts a bunch of thieves were caught. I think what goes around comes around. It's irrelevant if that very device is his. By returning it to a victim of theft the cycle will be closed.
 
OP, just to be clear. Have you ever had any work done at the Genius Bar?

Is there any paper trail for this iPhone that you lost?
 
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