2011年10月5日星期三

App Turns Tables on iPhone Thief

To the snatch-and-grab robbers who prowl the city’s streets and subways, the iPhone is an beautiful target: Everywhere, expensive and without difficulty recognizable from across the street.
Additionally, the phones’ apt owners are often unaware to their surroundings in the function of they stare next to their screens before press them to their ears. But a rather representative iPhone theft on Monday taking part in southern Queens involved an curious U-turn of roles: It was the be in charge of with the purpose of the law enforcement believe to be real the thief who was ambushed.

The victim of the iPhone theft, a 31-year-old woman, had apparently considered it likely with the purpose of her iPhone would someday be real stolen. So she downloaded an single-mindedness to her iPhone with the purpose of instructs the phone to take a picture and e-mail it to her if an incorrect password is used to unlock the iPhone’s home town screen, the law enforcement alleged.

With the purpose of is just what did you say? Happened, the law enforcement alleged, similar to a be in charge of bumped into her on Liberty opportunity and took her iPhone 4 from her front respectable compact. The photo, which the woman afterward conventional via e-mail, shows a immature be in charge of with in detail cropped curls and an earring taking part in his not here ear taking part in a bare scope, with what did you say? Appears to be real a skylight. The woman approved the photo on to the law enforcement section, which spread the photo widely to try to identify the be in charge of.

The app is open online under the famous person iGotYa, but is not on behalf of retailing through iTunes.



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