Harry Monk:
Unfortunately, it is a marketing ruse. The person in the photo has not stolen anything, and this has been confirmed to me by PM by the person who reported the phone stolen.
Liar.
bowserman:
Harry Monk:
Unfortunately, it is a marketing ruse. The person in the photo has not stolen anything, and this has been confirmed to me by PM by the person who reported the phone stolen.Liar.
I’ll just clarify that, it is a hoax that the person named as having stolen the phone, and who set the photo as his Facebook profile pic, stole the phone.
That is not what your comment states. You say the person that reported the phone stolen PM’d you. Lie.
The person in the photo has not stolen anything, yes he has.
Its a marketing ruse, no it isnt.
Duncan will be along here soon to clarify this.
Hi guys, I felt compelled to sign up to this forum to get my point across and answer a few of your questions. I am the bloke whos phone is the cause of all of this madness.
The phone was lost in Wetherby services. I was on my way home on the Friday and literally ran in to use the toilets, when I returned to my vehicle I found that the device had fallen from my pocket. So yeah, my own daft fault.
As soon as I noticed I started calling it with my company mobile, covered every area of the place while calling it (less than 2 minutes later), before asking the cleaners and staff at all the retail units if a device had been handed in. When I came up with no result, I contacted my office and one of my workmates accessed my lookout account and checked the GPS location, this was showing as in the truck park. While I was on the phone to my office I walked up and down the truck park while the “scream” function was being used, but heard nothing. The phone was then locked and a custom lock screen was generated saying "Phone reported as missing, please contact owner on .
I then left Wetherby to continue travelling home.
When I got home and checked Lookout again, the device was still in the Wetherby truck park. I checked my email and found the Image that the device took of the fella trying to unlock it, call logs confirm that this was between missed calls.
I then called the police and reported it, at the time they said that they didn’t need me to provide the photo, but took a description.
I also reported it to my network, which disabled the phone. Meaniing I could no longer track it.
The next day I had the police contact me again, saying that they didn’t find it on the Friday and asking for me to send the image. I then suggested that I might share it online and pretty much got the response of “why not, we can’t tell you not too”. The rest is history.
I never expected it to go viral, its bizarre! At the end of the day it is only a phone, I never thought it was particularly newsworthy.
Thanks to all of you on here that have shared it and provided info on the truck.
the FB post that claimed the phone had been handed in and provided a 0161 number is a hoax, GMP have been contacted by North Yorkshire and its simply not true.
I do not have any affiliation with Lookout, I am not a marketing ruse. Do I recommend it? Yeah, I would. But I’m not getting paid to say that.
bowserman:
Duncan will be along here soon to clarify this.
And as if by magic…
Ta dah! 
DuncanPaylor:
Hi guys, I felt compelled to sign up to this forum to get my point across and answer a few of your questions. I am the bloke whos phone is the cause of all of this madness.The phone was lost in Wetherby services. I was on my way home on the Friday and literally ran in to use the toilets, when I returned to my vehicle I found that the device had fallen from my pocket. So yeah, my own daft fault.
As soon as I noticed I started calling it with my company mobile, covered every area of the place while calling it (less than 2 minutes later), before asking the cleaners and staff at all the retail units if a device had been handed in. When I came up with no result, I contacted my office and one of my workmates accessed my lookout account and checked the GPS location, this was showing as in the truck park. While I was on the phone to my office I walked up and down the truck park while the “scream” function was being used, but heard nothing. The phone was then locked and a custom lock screen was generated saying "Phone reported as missing, please contact owner on .
I then left Wetherby to continue travelling home.
When I got home and checked Lookout again, the device was still in the Wetherby truck park. I checked my email and found the Image that the device took of the fella trying to unlock it, call logs confirm that this was between missed calls.
I then called the police and reported it, at the time they said that they didn’t need me to provide the photo, but took a description.
I also reported it to my network, which disabled the phone. Meaniing I could no longer track it.
The next day I had the police contact me again, saying that they didn’t find it on the Friday and asking for me to send the image. I then suggested that I might share it online and pretty much got the response of “why not, we can’t tell you not too”. The rest is history.
I never expected it to go viral, its bizarre! At the end of the day it is only a phone, I never thought it was particularly newsworthy.
Thanks to all of you on here that have shared it and provided info on the truck.
the FB post that claimed the phone had been handed in and provided a 0161 number is a hoax, GMP have been contacted by North Yorkshire and its simply not true.I do not have any affiliation with Lookout, I am not a marketing ruse. Do I recommend it? Yeah, I would. But I’m not getting paid to say that.
Clear something up. Is the person in the image the thief?
The person in the image is who had possesion of the phone. He failed to return it, hand it in, answer the calls or make any attempt to contact me. So yes, I’d call him a thief.
Finders keepers, losers weepers. 
Well that’s cleared that one up then!! 
DuncanPaylor:
The person in the image is who had possesion of the phone. He failed to return it, hand it in, answer the calls or make any attempt to contact me. So yes, I’d call him a thief.
So what’s your thoughts. Is he’s an eastern european or from Liverpool 
I think this must now go to the next level - Interpol, or even…S.T.E.N.C.H.
Sweep the townships and favela`s, set up armed roadblocks across Europe. Whatever it takes to nail this criminal mastermind. 
Something just don’t add up about this. This gent below, the “thief”, some how is able to use the picture the phone took of him for his FB page. Now the FB page looks fake to me. His face is chucked all over FB saying he has stolen a phone. shock horror the page no longer exists. Something is not adding up here.
Even with all the shares and likes the photo got from loads of people, not one driver knows him. You cannot tell me that a driver goes about his day not knowing the other driver that had overtook him.
Any chance in seeing this “Email” the phone sent you with this blokes image?
Harry Monk:
…because someone was taking the ■■■■!
How easy is it to grab and reuse a photo?
…and took me two nanoseconds to find the page you are referring to. Facebook
bowserman:
…and took me two nanoseconds to find the page you are referring to. Facebook
Have you clicked on it? telling me it is currently unavailable. If you have the information whilst hasn’t it been sorted?
gezt:
Stanley Knife:
bowserman:
the app is called @lookout, I use the premium version on android.Mr Paylor, if I download this app, but only use the basic version that I don’t have to pay for . . .
. . . will it work?
ie what’s the difference between the basic version and the premium version?
I was bored so tried the free version, the picture take works and so does the phone locator(that was very accurate) also you can make the phone scream as well. its ok for a free app but the paid one is £1.99 month there abouts.
I’ve been playing about with AVG AntiVirus Security - FREE which gives a 14 day trial for AVG Mobile AntiVirus Security PRO.
AVG Mobile AntiVirus Security PRO seems to do everything Lookout does and more, but for a one off payment of £8.99 rather than the £20 per year Lookout charge.
One nice feature I’ve found in the AVG app is that if you lose your mobile the anti-theft features can be activated by sending a text message to the phone rather than having to log onto a web-site, though you can do it that way to, so if the phone is lost/stolen and you can get someone to send a text message to the phone you can activate the anti-theft features immediately, you can also password protect individual apps on your mobile.
So it’s a hoax. It isn’t a hoax. I don’t know. Come on duncan tell us more. Any leads? Someone must surely recognise the bloke?
happysack:
So it’s a hoax. It isn’t a hoax. I don’t know. Come on duncan tell us more. Any leads? Someone must surely recognise the bloke?
+1
mickyblue:
Something just don’t add up about this. This gent below, the “thief”, some how is able to use the picture the phone took of him for his FB page. Now the FB page looks fake to me. His face is chucked all over FB saying he has stolen a phone. shock horror the page no longer exists. Something is not adding up here.Even with all the shares and likes the photo got from loads of people, not one driver knows him. You cannot tell me that a driver goes about his day not knowing the other driver that had overtook him.
Any chance in seeing this “Email” the phone sent you with this blokes image?
Harry Monk:
It would be possible, but that would mean sharing both my personal mobile number and email address on here. I’m not going to do that.