Hello everyone,
Firstly i want to say thank you again for your kind messages and good advices, i come here to bring you some interesting news and thoughts that i had with my current situation and how to handle with phone stealing after “the event”.
Some days after i opened this topic my girlfriend received some calls from the stealer using my old phone. To do this he used wifi and my the app that i used to send messages with my girlfriend as replacement to whatsapp : Signal.
Luckily because i recently installed a new ROM there was very few and not intersting data inside my phone, just three messages to my girlfriend and no photo but this was enough for the stealer to try things.
She took the call and she couldn’t understand anything, the guy seemed to be with many people talking at the same time, maybe the stealer was in a shop or in a crowd, but this fact confirmed that he took the time to take a look everywhere on the phone.
I changed every passwords but one security issue concern Apps using phone number authentification like whatsapp, because here i need my phone number to take contol back. For this, i conclude that ordering 2 sim cards for the same phone number can be a layer of security to have the time to lock this kind of accounts before blocking the line.
I told the police about that, i was angry because even if i brought them the IMEI the stealer was still able to use my phone many days after to use my messaging app throught wifi.
They told me that IMEI process can take much time (around 7 days), i told them that maybe they could try to track my phone if the stealer is using it but i think that i was talking to people living in the 90ies, …
Later my girlfriend received two phone calls from two different phone numbers, i was with her to listen and try to make the guy talk. It was a young guy, speaking with a weird accent, and trying to maybe i don’t know …having a date with my girlfriend like a teenager that was a little bit funny. I brought the numbers to the police, they did nothing … well they looked bored and they told me that most of the time stolen phone are sold in foreign country and that stealers use temporary sim card bought in little shops and that’s difficult to track them blablabla to me it just sounds like “we don’t have time and we don’t have means to do our job”.
I don’t understand why there is not a “cyber police” for this cases, … anyway …
I ordered my SIM card and i never received, i’m talking about that to share an other conclusion : choosing a good phone network provider (with efficient and easy-to-call assistance, stable financial situation, good network, good commercial assistance, special services and maybe other options to customize everything) is an other very important layer of security (the price is the worst criteria to choose a phone network provider, “never trust the price”, that’s what i learned here).
And a last thing : when i bought my xiaomi phone, the seller told me that xiaomi phone can easily run other custom ROM, but he didn’t told me that xiaomi add a security layer that involve to connect the phone with a xiaomi account and wait 7 days to get “the permission” unlock bootloader with their own software (i loved this so much i will never buy xiaomi products anymore, their official ROM is a personal data vaccum that’s terrible)
