Watch your I-phone and Android!
We just returned from a trip to Iowa to visit the daughter and our 3 granddaughters. It was a wonderful trip, and the kids just loved sleeping in the camper with us.
But, in the midst of all our fun, we had a disheartening event. We had the two small children with us in our truck and my wife ran into the grocery store in a little town called Hubbard, Iowa.
Now, Hubbard is a small "country town", quaint, peaceful, and one of those communities where the sidewalks roll up at 5:00, everything shuts down on Sunday, and the biggest event is a random deer that might cross the road!
So, into the store she went. But when we got back to the camper, she realized her Android phone was missing. We searched everything, including going back to my daughter's house and the grocery store we were just at. No phone.
My wife called AT&T on my phone and had her phone service suspended, so no one else could use the phone. Sadly, only 3 minutes before she made the call, someone used the phone. So we knew it was in the hands of someone else.
My wife and daughter went to Ames, Iowa hoping to get another phone. Unfortunately, the representative at the mall area was not very helpful and definitely did not know how to deal with "out of state" issues. But he did say, there is a real problem, even in small towns in no-where-land, Iowa with phones getting stolen.
Today we are back home. My wife went to Indianapolis to "our" AT&T store and was able to get a new phone. Talking to the sales rep at the store, he said there is currently a REAL problem with phones getting stolen, pick-pocketed.
The culprit will somehow get the victim slightly distracted, and, instead of pick-pocketing your wallet, they take your phone.
What do they do with them? There's a real racket going on right now where anyone can simply drop a cell phone into a Kiosk and get cash back on the phone, even if the phone is not theirs!
When the Superbowl was held in Indianapolis this year, evidently there were many, many people that had their phones stolen at the event. (Good business for AT&T, but really sucks for the victim!).
SO BEWARE! We've never had anything stolen in years and years of camping all over the country ... until now. And who would have thought that in a little country town in the middle of a cornfield and windmills, such sinister events are happening!
LADIES ... DON'T leave your phones exposed in those outer pockets of your purse.
GUYS... Don't put your phone down anywhere and turn away if your are in any public environment. Keep in in your pocket, unseen!
Hard lesson we learned on this trip. Never would have thought we'd be victims of theft, but we were. It happened to us, it COULD happen to you!
Beware! Watch your I-phone and Android .... always!
But, in the midst of all our fun, we had a disheartening event. We had the two small children with us in our truck and my wife ran into the grocery store in a little town called Hubbard, Iowa.
Now, Hubbard is a small "country town", quaint, peaceful, and one of those communities where the sidewalks roll up at 5:00, everything shuts down on Sunday, and the biggest event is a random deer that might cross the road!
So, into the store she went. But when we got back to the camper, she realized her Android phone was missing. We searched everything, including going back to my daughter's house and the grocery store we were just at. No phone.
My wife called AT&T on my phone and had her phone service suspended, so no one else could use the phone. Sadly, only 3 minutes before she made the call, someone used the phone. So we knew it was in the hands of someone else.
My wife and daughter went to Ames, Iowa hoping to get another phone. Unfortunately, the representative at the mall area was not very helpful and definitely did not know how to deal with "out of state" issues. But he did say, there is a real problem, even in small towns in no-where-land, Iowa with phones getting stolen.
Today we are back home. My wife went to Indianapolis to "our" AT&T store and was able to get a new phone. Talking to the sales rep at the store, he said there is currently a REAL problem with phones getting stolen, pick-pocketed.
The culprit will somehow get the victim slightly distracted, and, instead of pick-pocketing your wallet, they take your phone.
What do they do with them? There's a real racket going on right now where anyone can simply drop a cell phone into a Kiosk and get cash back on the phone, even if the phone is not theirs!
When the Superbowl was held in Indianapolis this year, evidently there were many, many people that had their phones stolen at the event. (Good business for AT&T, but really sucks for the victim!).
SO BEWARE! We've never had anything stolen in years and years of camping all over the country ... until now. And who would have thought that in a little country town in the middle of a cornfield and windmills, such sinister events are happening!
LADIES ... DON'T leave your phones exposed in those outer pockets of your purse.
GUYS... Don't put your phone down anywhere and turn away if your are in any public environment. Keep in in your pocket, unseen!
Hard lesson we learned on this trip. Never would have thought we'd be victims of theft, but we were. It happened to us, it COULD happen to you!
Beware! Watch your I-phone and Android .... always!
