== How the scam works==
The con man keep on feeding shit to the customer and said that there is "no solution" available yet. To add insult to the injury, he has the guts to demand $85 from each victim. Many are still not aware or awake yet. Note that the con man claims to be some sort of "authority" or legal representative of an American corporation or "chief importer preferred service centre". The look of his $2 shop type junk setup is enough to wake you up.
==What you can do to stop this==
What eats most people up is that he might get away from his hideous crime on innocent Kiwis like:
(1) Willful destruction of property (i.e. damage your iPhone 4G pretending that he can unlock them)
(2) Lost of data contents - after he bricked your iPhone 4G, all your names, phone number, Apple apps that you bought, information that cost you money to collect is totally wipe out.
Under the law, consumer can file a Police report with the Auckland Central Police Station, then proceed to ask the government to clamp down on this crook.
If you are on facebook or you are a blogger, please tell everyone to be very very careful to be victimized and get his expensive iPhone 4G.
==Buyer Beware==
Read before you sign any service form at the con man's $2 shop "expert iPhone repair" centre. Ask for true copy of license issued by Auckland City Council for technical repair. Any Tom, Dick or Harry can pretend to be a brain surgeon. Call up Vodafone authorized dealer to check who is the legit and established repair centre in Auckland. You should ask for trade reference or check with other reputation iPhone repair centre.
A thief, Horatio Toure, who stole an Apple iPhone from its owner’s hands was arrested by American police within minutes after being tracked by global positioning system (GPS) software.
The 31 year-old snatched the highly-sought after phone from the hands of a software company employee who was testing a new application in San Francisco earlier this week.
But the hapless thief was arrested by police just nine minutes later after the iPhone tracked his every move.
The phone was being used to test a new real-time tracking application, which had been produced by Covia Labs, a software company based in the San Francisco Bay suburb of Mountain View.
David Kahn, the company’s chief executive, said he sent the 23 year-old female intern, who has not been named, out to walk around the block during a demonstration for a client.
The software is designed to help police and the military track officers in the field.
But as Mr Kahn and his client David Fonkalsrud watched a live map of the phone's location on his computer they became puzzled by how quickly the image was moving down the street.
Police said Toure had escaped by bicycle.
“We kind of noticed while that was happening, boy, she was really starting to move pretty fast and she wasn't heading back toward the place," Mr Kahn told the San Jose Mercury News.
"Moments later she comes bursting into the office and said she'd just been mugged."
Mr Kahn said he used the software to track the thief's movements while the intern called police.
"It was pretty exciting to realise what was going on and wondering if he had noticed," Mr Kahn said.
“I actually had an adrenaline rush. Obviously if he had turned off the phone that would have been it."
Mr Fonkalsrud added: “It probably sounds almost unreal. It's almost as if it's a bank robber picking a day to rob a bank when there are five police officers in the branch."
The pair denied the incident was a publicity stunt.
Albie Esparza, a San Francisco Police spokeswoman, said: “That's pretty effective software, I would say.
"Criminals are opportunistic. … But I'm sure even criminals won't take a chance if they know that there's a tracking device."
Toure was later charged with theft and possession of stolen property after the intern identified him as the thief. He will appear in court at a later date.
An Apple spokesman was unavailable for comment.
Have been busy with the first draft on the logo design for Abby Technology. Everything is almost in place now. I will be using this logo for mainly:
(1) Apple iPhone repair service, jailbreak and unlock
(2) Advertisement related to mobile phone repair and network unlocking.
(3) Conceptual design on Apple iOS unlocking artwork
This is a effort to register the stages of the logo and the branding on mobile phone repair, Apple iPhone unlock and jailbreak commercial activities.
I have found a few cool pictures that is related to Blackberry repair and unlocking and would be handy for my future effort in advertising them.
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