UK getting ready for a wave of iPhone thefts.
The “supposed popularity” of the ‘iconic’ iPhone in the world can cause a wave of thefts in the UK once it’s released there on November 9 2007.
According to Jack Wraith, chair of mobile phone trade body the MICAF (Mobile Industry Crime Action Forum) the iPhone “will be one of those ‘nice-to-have items’“. “The industry, along with the police and the government, are concerned they will cause a peak in robberies,” he said.
The statistics show, however, that only 28 per cent of all robberies involving a mobile are targeted specifically the mobile. That’s because a mobile is nicked often just to prevent a victim from reporting a larger theft.
And Mr. Wraith mentions “Often a person is not targeted for their phone, taking it can be as simple as not wanting the victim to have the means to report the theft immediately.” “A huge number of stolen phones are not unblocked or sold on, they are just dumped,” he added.
And although Apple claims to have improved the iPhone’s security and that it is impossible to unlock or unblock an iPhone, that’s clearly not so, and the “iconic” device remains an attractive target of a potential theft.
According to Home Office police statistics a whopping 800,000 people have their phones stolen in Britain each year (that’s out of 60-something million total population).
Unfortunately statistics do not show yet how many of them are “iconic”.
Thanks: PC Advisor
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