Police To Annoy Thieves With SMS
from the now-that's-strategy dept
Police in Amsterdam have a new plan on how to deal with thieves who steal mobile phones. They're going to start sending them SMS messages every three minutes to annoy them into giving themselves up or something. It also will make it harder to resell the phone when the message reads: "This device is pinched. Purchase or sale is an offence - the police".
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One guy was in police station when he got "SMS bomb" on his mobile. It seems that some mobiles were "turned in"
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Errr... UK?
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thanx.
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sms revenge
I have an annoying friend that sends threatening messages.
Any ideas how to bomb him with ...say 10000 messages?
Any site or software accepted...
thanks
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Nothing 2 learn ???
I need this very much !!!
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online chess
and I'd rather be playing chess online on online chess :)
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Text-Australia
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