[pgchimp]

Hi all

Been trying to sort this one out since Christmas with no joy so perhaps a few words here might point me in the right direction,

for Christmas one of my presents from the loved one was a Samsung Jet touch screen which I had been hinting for, on receipt I laid to rest my 6 months old Sony Ericcson C902 open to all networks.

I was showing the new Samsung to a so called mate after Christmas and he proclaimed that he had recently broken his current mobile and it was away for repair so he had no mobile to use.

After numerous hints from him I offered to lend him my C902 which was open to all networks and lying idle while his phone was in for repair.

anyway after a period of time I kept asking for my phone back, but he kept on making excuses, eventually I received the phone back but something in his mannerism told me all was not well.

After a couple of days i decided to put my 02 sim back in and was suprised to see the message "Inactive Sim". So I tried with Orange Voda, T Mobile sims and they all said the same.

Eventually I went storming round to my mates to ask him what he had done, of course he denied everything for days, then eventually he came clean and informed me he had found a contract sim on T mobile with credit on and had been using that in my phone until T mobile banned the Sim and the phone from further use.

I was fuming and rang sony Ericsonn to see what could be done, I can prove ownership of the phone but they say the only person who can take the block off are the network who put the block on.

So if i were to ring T mobile what sort of response will i get, will i be classed as a thief even though i knew nothing of the sim being used, or will they refuse to unblock the phone for me.

Moral of this story, dont trust a mate with your mobile