A customer turned in this phone at my work after someone left it in the parking lot. I was able to get into it to look for contract information to return it to the owner by holding it to the light and seeing the finger swipe patterns for the unlock pattern. The first thing I noticed was several bitcoin wallet apps, WhatsApp and Snapchat. Before I could find any identifying info, the wifi connected and suddenly the phone was going insane with notifications of messages, bitcoin transactions, and missed calls from unknown numbers that were from all over the country (from Washinton, Arizona, Rhode Island, etc). Then suddenly the phone went blank and shut off on its own. When I powered it back up, it had been wiped to factory defaults.
Who in hell's phone did we find and what was on it that was worth setting it to be wiped when accessed by someone other than the owner?
I'm guessing the damage was from being dropped in a parking lot and likely being run over a few times. No telling how long it was out there before the customer found it and turned it in.
because op was clearly smart enough to get into it on his own
Josiah Ramirez
What I believe you have is a prepaid phone (usually used if a person doesn't want to have their identity attached to their phone carrier, usually through a contract)
That phone is the Alcatel idealXCITE. The carrier was most likely GSM since that seems to be the only supported frequencies for the device, most likely it was AT&T Prepaid.
Going by what you said that it went blank, shut off, and wiped all of its contents. It may have a tracking app on it like Lookout, or Play Protect of which, the guy probably used that to wipe the device remotely.
That location tracker can be used to look for you before it was wiped, keep that in mind, user.
Yeah the phone supports gsm, 3g, and 4g, whats your point? >The carrier was most likely GSM Maybe OP could figure this out, you're only making empty assumptions you stupid piece of shit
>chances of unlock pattern being a visible smudge on screen, especially after being handled and left in parking lot. >recognizing Bitcoin wallet apps magically, somehow "seeing" transactions. bad LARP, please try again.
Luis Cruz
op trying and failing to boost his larp thread by same fagging.
Ayden Baker
gotta throw it into a volcano. thats the only way.
Leo Rivera
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Josiah Gomez
this is Jow Forums, not /b/, stop larping, or pasta'ing. and off the phone even was "found in a parking lot", give it back tyrone.
Hunter Sullivan
>he doesn't even rap
Jaxson Martinez
OP here. The phone has been cleaned and destroyed. I know what a trap phone is, I've just never seen one with BTC wallets that wipes after opening.
Yes, Bitcoin wallets like Bitpay and Coinbase give notifications of transactions.
my mom got that same phone from cricket for free. also phone is about 20 dollara slow as fuck and imposible to aee outside in the day(worstm than a gameboy)
Andrew Gonzalez
Trap house phone, probably. I.e., a drug dealer.
Kayden Davis
Why does that make it a trap?
Dylan Robinson
The phone's not a trap, it's a trap phone because it's used by someone from a trap house
Jaxson Gomez
Is this just confusing because I'm white and make an honest living?
Alexander Jackson
I think it's just because you're dumb. I'm white and make an honest living and I get it
Jonathan Martin
3301 in black marker on the back, cicada faggot confirmed
Jaxson Thomas
i'm white and make an honest living and i get it. sounds like you're just autistic.
Brayden Harris
oh fuck you better smash this op it's a hitmans phone
Eli Gutierrez
A giant wave of ledditors (who can't bear the thought of an edgy joke) "discovered" this board around the time you left. Now there's going to be an influx of summerfags. Get out while you still can
Jace Bell
This isn't really the proper thread for that joke anyway. He's not asking for help to get into the phone or anything (who would? That thing's trash when it's not broken), he just wants to know what he's stumbled upon.
Alexander Watson
This isn't one of those threads. OP isn't trying to keep the phone for themselves, and actually tried to find the owner.
Angel Williams
>hello, reddit! its because he's a tripfag now see your way out
This thread has two kinds of people in it. The ones that either don't give a shit about the joke or realize it doesn't apply here, and the summerfags whining that nobody used an irrelevant joke.
Justin Russell
It's not an iPhone X you newfag retard.
> hurr I must try hard so I am more Jow Forums You sure are Jow Forumsay enough already, so fuck off, back to slashdot with you.
Aiden Sullivan
you just live(d) in a better place than the other anons, that simple.
Easton Fisher
Yet a nigger runs the biggest BitMEX exchange by volume
Nathan Diaz
Depends which city he's in. In Vancouver Canada for example there's ISP hotspots all over the city.
Jose Perry
Literally have that kind of phone. Alcatel is awesome. Multiple sim slots, whatsapp and other basic applications work. free sim card with the damn phone.
