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Wireless

by Mike Masnick




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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  1. Mar 29th, 2001 @ 5:33am

    No Subject Given

    by pheloxi

    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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  2. Mar 29th, 2001 @ 9:44am

    Errr... UK?

    by norm

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

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  3. Mar 29th, 2001 @ 11:17am

    Re: Errr... UK?

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

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  4. Jan 30th, 2002 @ 9:30am

    Re: Errr... UK?

    by gav

    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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  5. Feb 26th, 2002 @ 1:23am

    Re: Errr... UK?

    by twistid

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

    thanx.

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  6. Mar 14th, 2002 @ 5:00am

    sms revenge

    by TSWTSAS

    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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  7. Mar 19th, 2002 @ 12:52pm

    Re: No Subject Given

    by hussain

    hiiiiiiiii

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  8. Dec 3rd, 2002 @ 7:53am

    Re: No Subject Given

    by A-r-e-S

    Bullshit, i don't believe in thet shit

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  9. Apr 1st, 2003 @ 10:29am

    Nothing 2 learn ???

    by Victim

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

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  10. Oct 20th, 2003 @ 2:41am

    Re: Nothing 2 learn ???

    by beta

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

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  11. Feb 22nd, 2004 @ 1:03pm

    online chess

    by chess

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

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  12. Jul 27th, 2004 @ 8:28am

    Re: No Subject Given

    by assd

    dasda

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  13. Oct 6th, 2004 @ 5:00am

    Re: No Subject Given

    naber

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  14. Mar 11th, 2006 @ 10:19am

    Text-Australia

    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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  15. Aug 28th, 2006 @ 5:29pm
    by jess

    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...?

    (reply to this comment) (link to this comment)

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