My iPhone Got Jacked At Gunpoint – Help!

By Ben Popken February 5, 2009

Reader Dan says he was walking home last night and got robbed at gunpoint, losing his iPhone, which he only got five days ago, in the process. He asks, “Any tips from you or readers? Can it be tracked using the onboard gps? This STINKS!”

Sorry, Dan, that really sucks. Theoretically, it should be traceable by its signal. But checking the comments on a post about this issue on Chris Pirillo’s blog, there’s several people saying that AT&T was no help and wouldn’t do a trace when they reported their phone stolen to the police. Here’s one of the guys who was successful, though.

ConditionWon wrote:

I FOUND my phone because the thief registered it with ATT, so Apple help was able to confirm the phone #, and user who had taken my phone… I gave that info the the cops, and the guy was arrested! BTW… ATT was of NO help whatsoever, they wouldn’t even confirm that the # my phone was registered under was their customer. Yay for Apple though!!!


What Happens when your iPhone gets Stolen [Chris Pirillo] (Photo: frankieleon)

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Comments

  1. PølάrβǽЯ says:
    February 6, 2009 at 5:10 am

    Carry a bigger gun. Has always worked for me. Robbers/thieves never jack the guy with a pistol on his hip. Or a shotgun in his truck.

  2. cmgaviao says:
    February 9, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    I think I may hold the record for shortest ownership of a 3g. I had just bought it and was on my way home on the train (maybe 20 mins of total ownership) when 1 stop before my stop it was ripped out of my hands by a punk. I had payed for it with my AmEx card so it was insured. What was not insured was the 6 hour wait i had spent in line to get it. And since my old phone was pretty much dead I STUPIDLY made the snap decision to chase the guy down. I was lucky caught the guy and got my phone back with no harm done. However, it got me thinking… why can’t there be an app that runs in the background that hourly sends an email with the phones gps coordinates?

    Thanks so much apple for not letting us do background apps.

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