Notify Apple of Stolen iphone

[devilstrider]

So there is no electronic serial number in these phones that you can give the provider to permanently keep them from being activated? I know with sprint and Verizon does. You input a number format and it gives you your phone serial. If you lose it or it gets stolen you call and give it to them and that phone is germanely disabled and reported stolen. It can never be activated again so its just a piece of junk. I guess it's a CDMA thing.

 

[maflynn]

So there is no electronic serial number in these phones that you can give the provider to permanently keep them from being activated? I know with sprint and Verizon does. You input a number format and it gives you your phone serial. If you lose it or it gets stolen you call and give it to them and that phone is germanely disabled and reported stolen. It can never be activated again so its just a piece of junk. I guess it's a CDMA thing.

Of course there is, but that doesn't mean they'll be willing to do that and so far they have not.

 

[Interstella5555]

so around 11pm last night I was jumped by 3 thugs who stole my iphone (1st gen). It was pwned and on tmobile, i called tmobile and put service on hold, i got the imei number and gave it to the police who i guess might try and track it... but i don't think it's likely
does anybody know how this works? and should i notify apple of the stolen phone so if it's hooked into itunes it will show up as stolen, and maybe lock the phone up?
I am so angry right now!
any help on what to do would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry to hear that man, I got mugged and had my 4 stolen a few months ago, no a good feeling. Unfortunately, neither Apple nor AT&T (in my case) really cares that much and won't do anything to prevent the phone from being used. Again, sorry to hear it.