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iPhone news. Posted on: February 15, 2009
Dino's dad lost his iPhone. When he checked his mailbox and found some guy was taking pics of himself and sent out. Luckily, before losing the phone, Dino's dad set up a rule where any email sent from the phone blind-cc'ed his personal email address. Then, Dino took this pic to the Consumerist and asked for help. The detail is as below.
"Was hoping you could give me some advice. My dad (64) lost his iphone today. He went to the At&T store and had the service stopped and got a SIM card to put into his old cell phone.
Well he checked his aol account tonight and saw pictures of some guy holding an iphone up and taking pics in the mirror. My dad had it set up that he was BCC on emails sent out on the iphone.
We emailed the the recipient of the emails to ask who was in these pictures and that we would like the phone back. He hasn't responded back yet.
What should we do? I think in the morning my dad will file a report with the police. I tried googling the email address and no luck with that. Do you have any other advice we should do to get back the phone?
I posted the pics on flickr. If this is seen widely on the Internet do you think it would shame the guy into give us back the phone?
- Dino A.
Paramus , NJ"
After one hour later, another post was released.
"Wow, that was impressive! In less than one hour after we posted about Dino's dad's lost iPhone, Consumerist readers were able to locate his Facebook and Hi5 accounts, track down his name and home address, and even get him to respond via email—something Dino and his dad weren't able to do yesterday. Dino just wrote us and said "Michael Smith/Emerson" contacted him and promised to return the phone tomorrow."
That's the power of social media.
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