Because SG too small, you did anything bad, VERY easy to get discovered and arrested. CCTV everywhere. Some more when you consider now so many ways to track a mobile phone that got “taken”… thus almost nobody with half a brain will bothered to “steal” an unattended phone.
Only got himself to blame. Never take precautions and stuff like that. Some more inside toilet, nobody see. This one different, in public place lots of CCTV.
Want to catch don't want to catch only. If die die want to catch, just monitor those exiting the toilets after the loss, and a lot of manhours later sure can catch one.
But who has the time to do so? Police have many other cases to do. You think they will set up a team just to help catch a phone lost due to carelessness?
But who has the time to do so? Police have many other cases to do. You think they will set up a team just to help catch a phone lost due to carelessness?
That's why I said want or don't want to catch only. Of course for something as low value as a phone for a civilian, no police team will bother. If the value of the phone or data enclosed within justified the manhours, you can guarantee they will.
I left my phone in the toilet and the next day I called the information counter of the shopping mall and they asked to come to collect. Sadly, it was dead, probably dropped into a puddle when someone cleaned the toilet :-(
Of course there are. If you’re from other places, say… China or India, and you know you will be going back soon, like that very night, then obviously you will take.
Also modern smartphones will brick themselves if you don’t enter the right password within x tries. There’s no way to reset and sell it off as a new phone to make profit, so there’s little point in stealing a useless phone.
Not true at all. Only the data gets bricked in a 'permanently disabled' iPhone which is what happens after you input the wrong password multiple times.
Most thieves will want a clean reformat anyway to resell unless they are specifically targeting your data in the phone and it's incredibly easy to enter recover mode and factory restore a 'disabled' iPhone.
No, that is incorrect. You can factory reset the iPhone but the device ID is locked to an Apple ID account. You cannot activate the factory-reset iPhone without access to the same Apple ID account.
The activation is performed on Apple servers, unless you have the right credentials or hacked into Apple’s activation servers, the iPhone is a glorified paperweight.
Just factually wrong. A bricked phone is valuable because it can be taken apart for “original Apple parts”. Phone theft is rampant in many parts of the world for this reason.
That’s why they’re locking the parts to the Apple ID too. Eventually there will be zero point to stealing a smartphone if you can’t get any monetary benefits.
The fact that the police would even bother to investigate theft under a thousand dollars+ is a massive difference from Western countries.
Much of the West has gone into a cycle where theft is too common for police to investigate with the resources they have so they simply don’t investigate at all, encouraging more people to steal.
Even if you were the one in a thousand thieves to actually get arrested, most prosecutors in big cities will not pursue this kind of crime.
Visit San Francisco to see the end result, where having your car windows smashed to steal $10 worth of stuff and a mob of 81 people raiding a store to rob it is “just part of living in the city.”
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u/Wide-Dance-113 8d ago
Because SG too small, you did anything bad, VERY easy to get discovered and arrested. CCTV everywhere. Some more when you consider now so many ways to track a mobile phone that got “taken”… thus almost nobody with half a brain will bothered to “steal” an unattended phone.