No Service.

[Anonymous]

From about 5pm today I have had no service instead of signal on my iPhone 5s 02 PAYG phone. Done all resets including restoring in iTunes removed sim etc. still no service. I am in Liverpool city centre. Anyone else having problems today!?

[Anonymous]

Hi

I mentioned how findmyiphone works because you mentioned in your post "But I thought if it was blocked I would not be able to restore in iTunes which iv done."

Any iPhone can be restored as long as one knows the Apple ID password or the findmyiphone feature has been disabled , blocked to a network or not.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hey. Turns out it was blocked, was reported stolen by the network a month after I bought it in store. Grainger games were great though an have give me a like for like A1 condition replacement. Hopefully this one isn't stolen!?

[jonsie]

Glad you got it sorted. There are some scumbags out there!

[Anonymous]

Hi Paul.

I thought it was worth mentioning a possibility of the handset being blocked earlier in my reply to you.

We see this happen occasionally.

😞

[Anonymous]

I'd like to see more clamping down on things like this happening, I wonder if the stores have a process to escalate to the insurance companies?

[adamtemp64]

@wanty the stores that buy them off the crooks need to report all cases of this to the police as fraud after this happens

[MI5]

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@Anonymous wrote:
I'd like to see more clamping down on things like this happening, I wonder if the stores have a process to escalate to the insurance companies?

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As it is fraud, I would hope the stores inform the Police.....?

[jonsie]

Seeing as the store has lost out here, it is to be hoped they persue this with the insurance company and the fraudster gets caught.

[Anonymous]

It happens all too often so it make me wonder what happens after the store have reported it.

[Anonymous]

To be honest this is why I wouldn't buy a half decent handset via EBay either. It is a common scam. Have the handset. Sell it on eBay. A month later report as stolen. Claim the insurance. Network blocks handset. Unsuspecting purchaser can't use phone. Claims back via paypal. Paypal insurers lose out. WE ALL PAY FOR IT