Phone Thieves Bypassing Security Systems

These days the phone thieves are becoming cleverer than they ever was. They’re bypassing the security systems of the phone. Digicel and LIME began blocking phone the stolen phone from 2008 because people reported that blocking the IMEI would not do a thing and we will never found the phone again once stolen. This all goes in response to alerting officials that the Smartphone thieves are becoming more hi tech then before. Inspector Warren Williams of the Organized Crime Investigation Division has responded that his all unit is well aware of the fact that as tech is becoming easier so it is easy to remove the IMEI number from any phone just like removing the chassis number of any vehicle. He added “Yes, you do have people who are changing them in other parts of the world and putting it up on Youtube for everyone but it is very difficult to change it because its electronically embedded and it's very rarely that you see this kind of thing in Jamaica”

The jamaica-gleaner says “Blocking the International Mobile Equipment Identification (IMEI) of a smart phone reported stolen was once thought to be an effective measure to prevent phone thieves. However this has changed in recent years as criminals have found new ways to circumvent the security system in Jamaica. In many cases, disarming a phone's IMEI mechanism - which the police say is similar to the chassis number of a motor vehicle - is as easy as taking the phone to a street-side technician, many of whom charge as little as $2,000 for their services.”

However the A phone expert David says that the removal of IMEI is easy but not that easy. This process is alien to Jamaica; he also said that the IMEI number removal is illegal in countries like US and Britain because they keep all of them in a data base so if police caught any liar during the investigation the lie detector is the best option to take the truth out of the IMEI remover person.