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Things to do when your (i)Phone gets stolen
Last year while gallivanting through Ho Chi Minh's party street adjacent (do take extra care of your belongings if you're at the Bui Vien area), my friend's iPhone got snatched away and stolen right in front of our eyes.
It was the first time for any one of us encountering such a situation -bless us living in safe-Singapore- so we were like 3 blind mice trying to stay calm and think of next best course of action instead of scurrying around.
The victim took our friend's phone to contact family members back home and seek advice, that friend who was now phone-less concentrated on his surroundings and ponder the absurdity the situation, I contacted friends for advice + googled 'WHAT THE HELL TO DO WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR PHONE'. Blog posts tend to ramble on about disbelief at the situation (like what this post has been doing), stumbling me for 3-5min before realising it's useless. So I took pen&paper and listed essentials to do asap (for real. we were competing against experienced tech-advanced Vietnamese thieves).
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR IPHONE
-inform the local police & keep record of report. good to claim insurance if have.
-use Find My Iphone feature for iphone. instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201472
If you are unable to lock your iphone,
-get hold of a phone/ laptop/computer and do the following:
1 cancel your credit cards if you sync them to phone
2 change apple ID and password - you don't want thief changing your password and having full control of your device
3 change email passwords - so that thief can't change your apple ID (or other accounts) and verify via your emails .
4 change facebook password (fb post to inform friends if comfortable) .you don't want thief to contact your friends for money transfers.
That's about it. No choice, damaged is done. We did have a drink, some light music and bitching session after.
Back in Singapore
1 Get new SIM card
2 reinstate credit cards
Preventive action
The encounter taught that it's very important to label your iphone devices for easy ref (e.g. T's macbook, T's iphone6, T's iphone8 etc). The friend cutely labelled all devices rendering them unrecognisable (e.g. Teeeeth's, Tuffyyyy etc). So even if we could access his devices on Find My Iphone to lock/remotely erase the device's data, it was impossible to identify which Apple device was stolen. And you don't really want to accidentally erase the data on your happy and alive device back home.
More importantly, be so damn vigilant about your personal belongings. Theft can happen to any unsuspecting persons.
And no matter how friendly and chatty these locals seem, don't ever say you're from Singapore.
It was the first time for any one of us encountering such a situation -bless us living in safe-Singapore- so we were like 3 blind mice trying to stay calm and think of next best course of action instead of scurrying around.
The victim took our friend's phone to contact family members back home and seek advice, that friend who was now phone-less concentrated on his surroundings and ponder the absurdity the situation, I contacted friends for advice + googled 'WHAT THE HELL TO DO WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR PHONE'. Blog posts tend to ramble on about disbelief at the situation (like what this post has been doing), stumbling me for 3-5min before realising it's useless. So I took pen&paper and listed essentials to do asap (for real. we were competing against experienced tech-advanced Vietnamese thieves).
WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR IPHONE
-inform the local police & keep record of report. good to claim insurance if have.
-use Find My Iphone feature for iphone. instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht201472
If you are unable to lock your iphone,
-get hold of a phone/ laptop/computer and do the following:
1 cancel your credit cards if you sync them to phone
2 change apple ID and password - you don't want thief changing your password and having full control of your device
3 change email passwords - so that thief can't change your apple ID (or other accounts) and verify via your emails .
4 change facebook password (fb post to inform friends if comfortable) .you don't want thief to contact your friends for money transfers.
That's about it. No choice, damaged is done. We did have a drink, some light music and bitching session after.
Back in Singapore
1 Get new SIM card
2 reinstate credit cards
Preventive action
The encounter taught that it's very important to label your iphone devices for easy ref (e.g. T's macbook, T's iphone6, T's iphone8 etc). The friend cutely labelled all devices rendering them unrecognisable (e.g. Teeeeth's, Tuffyyyy etc). So even if we could access his devices on Find My Iphone to lock/remotely erase the device's data, it was impossible to identify which Apple device was stolen. And you don't really want to accidentally erase the data on your happy and alive device back home.
More importantly, be so damn vigilant about your personal belongings. Theft can happen to any unsuspecting persons.
And no matter how friendly and chatty these locals seem, don't ever say you're from Singapore.
Wednesday, April 18, 2018
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