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Trrrrrng...... goes my
alarm in the morning. I wake up with a start! I glance at the
clock and I realize that I am insufferably late for my work. My
usual day! I rush through my activities and I run to the bus
stop to catch a bus to my work place. Finally the bus arrives.
The bus was packed and I have to squeeze myself inside. After 15
minutes of toe traumatizing, back breaking journey, I finally
made it to my destination. I casually reached out for my mobile
to check out for updates. I realized that my mobile is not there
in my bag!!! I rechecked the whole bag, rummaged it, to find my
mobile, turned it upside down with a hope that it might be
there. After a lot of checking, my grey cells have finally
accepted that I lost my mobile.
This a situation
encountered by many of us. Now the question is what are we
supposed to do in this situation as we have lost not only a
mobile but all our contacts and data? The whole world was in
that mobile! We have lost all our contact with the world because
no one knows how to contact us? Now lets do some damage control
and work out on what is supposed to be done next.
Firstly try calling up your
mobile because if your mobile is lost and is picked up some good
Samaritan there are chances of getting it back. If the phone
says it is switched off then you can confirm that your mobile is
stolen.
Once it is confirmed that
it is stolen go to the nearest police station and lodge a
complaint giving him all the information, description about the
mobile, where you think you have lost it, if you have an
activated mobile tracker and finally the IMEI number of your
mobile. IMEI is an unique number specific for every mobile
device just like your bank account number. Any call made through
your mobile can be traced back to it along with the location
with the help of this number.
If you are not aware of
your IMEI number you can call your mobile operator who will
assist you in giving you the information. Collect a copy of the
FIR copy provided. Then visit your network operators outlet,
file a complaint that you have lost your mobile along with the
SIM. The reason for doing this is for the issue of a duplicate
SIM and your previous SIM is blocked. You are issued the same
mobile number so that you are spared of the expense of losing
all your contacts. At least people know where to contact you. If
you have a lot of balance in your SIM some network operators do
provide a facility of reverting the same balance to your new SIM
after blocking the old one. So find out if your operator
provides you that facility and apply for the same if he does so.
If you are worried about the photos and other data on the phone,
most smartphones today have auto data deletion facility, which
is initiated after a number of failed attempts to provide
password for unlocking the decive. So all is not lost if we did loose our mobile.
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