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Theft
by Symbian Brains
'Theft' is a program for Nokia Series 60 mobile
phones that works as a safe protection from
being lost or stolen.
What is Theft?
?Theft’ starts automatically as the phone is
turned on, and then always keeps detecting
whether the phone is turned off in a wrong way,
or your SIM Card is changed. It also keeps
checking messages arriving for an activation
text you previously defined (See the "SMS text
to attack" in Program Settings section). Then
?Theft’ will attack the thief in three ways:
With a permanent text on the screen saying that
?THIS MOBILE IS LOST OR STOLEN’ along with any
other text you provide; such as your name and
contact telephone number.
The phone will send messages to a list of
recipients you created for ?Theft’ to inform you
that the phone is locked (It will also inform
you of the new SIM number if someone has changed
your SIM Card.).
A very loud long siren will sound from the phone
alerting people in the vicinity and disturbing
the thief.
THE THIEF WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FORMAT THE PHONE
AS FORMATTING REQUIRES A LOCKCODE (THAT YOU CAN
CHANGE FROM THE PHONE SYSTEM SETTINGS) AND FOR
THE THIEF TO DO THIS IT WILL TAKE SOMETIME AND
THAT TIME WOULD BE THE ENOUGH TIME FOR 'THEFT'
TO LAUNCH.
How will the thief be affected?
The thief changes the SIM; this requires
powering off or rebooting the phone. Of course
that will happen without the thief turning
?Theft’ off first as the thief does not know the
code you used to ?Turn off? ?Theft’. The result
will be that the next time the phone is powered
on, ?Theft’ will enter attack mode; will show
the display, will send messages to the phone
numbers in the ?Recipients? list and will emit
the warning alarm tone.
The thief changes the SIM; assuming you have set
the ?Attack on SIM change? field to ?Yes?, the
next time the phone is powered on ?Theft’ will
detect that the SIM has been changed and will
enter attack mode, and will carry out the same
actions as above including sending the details
of the new SIM card in the text message. Even if
the thief subsequently re-inserts the original
SIM, the attack will repeat when the phone is
powered on and will continue to do so until the
phone is "Unlocked" with the required code.
The thief does not change the SIM card and you
send a text message from any other mobile phone
to your phone containing text you provided in ?SMS
text to attack? field.
There is only one way to turn the phone back to
the normal mode; you must press ?Unlock? and
then you must enter your valid ?Turnoff code?
the same code that you provided to ?Theft’ in
the ?Application? page of the ?Program settings?
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