Police To Annoy Thieves With SMS

from the now-that's-strategy dept

Police in Amsterdam have a new plan on how to deal with thieves who steal mobile phones. They're going to start sending them SMS messages every three minutes to annoy them into giving themselves up or something. It also will make it harder to resell the phone when the message reads: "This device is pinched. Purchase or sale is an offence - the police".

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    No Subject Given

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    pheloxi, Mar 29th, 2001 @ 5:33am

    Dutch Police send "SMS bomb".

    One guy was in police station when he got "SMS bomb" on his mobile. It seems that some mobiles were "turned in"

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    Errr... UK?

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    norm, Mar 29th, 2001 @ 9:44am

    It says Amsterdam in the article. That's not the UK old chap.

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    Re: Errr... UK?

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    Mike (profile), Mar 29th, 2001 @ 11:17am

    Oops. That's what I get for posting late at night.

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    Re: Errr... UK?

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    gav, Jan 30th, 2002 @ 9:30am

    where can i get a sms bomber from, are they on the net???? if so can u send me the url through e.mail thanks

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    Re: Errr... UK?

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    twistid, Feb 26th, 2002 @ 1:23am

    did u find an sms bomb, and if so, please send the url to me.

    thanx.

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    sms revenge

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    TSWTSAS, Mar 14th, 2002 @ 5:00am

    hello
    I have an annoying friend that sends threatening messages.
    Any ideas how to bomb him with ...say 10000 messages?
    Any site or software accepted...
    thanks

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    hussain, Mar 19th, 2002 @ 12:52pm

    hiiiiiiiii

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    A-r-e-S, Dec 3rd, 2002 @ 7:53am

    Bullshit, i don't believe in thet shit

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    Nothing 2 learn ???

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    Victim, Apr 1st, 2003 @ 10:29am

    Why nobody show us how 2 send SMS bomb ???
    I need this very much !!!

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    Re: Nothing 2 learn ???

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    beta, Oct 20th, 2003 @ 2:41am

    I need that information too about sms bomb.....please..if you get it,teach me how to use it

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    online chess

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    chess, Feb 22nd, 2004 @ 1:03pm

    oh, yeah!
    and I'd rather be playing chess online on online chess :)

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    assd, Jul 27th, 2004 @ 8:28am

    dasda

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    cengiz, Oct 6th, 2004 @ 5:00am

    naber

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    Text-Australia

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    K.Makore, Mar 11th, 2006 @ 10:19am

    Send Text messages, faxes, group sms, ringtones, operator logos, WAP Push, MMS and SMS to anywhere in Australia from anywhere in the world at Text-Australia.com

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    jess, Aug 28th, 2006 @ 5:29pm

    surely if someone steals a phone they'll take the original simcard out so no-one can text or call the phone in the first place...?

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