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I have always been wondering about how mobile phones and crimes correlated. Sometimes a good phone call could prevent a crime from happening, some other occasions your cell phone could be used as fraud option. How to protect yourself and innocents surrounding with your tiny Motorola or Nokia?
1)SMS (Short Message Service): SMS may not be very convenient since the keyboard is small and you input slowly. However, the best thing of SMS is silence. No one will notice your SMS if you are not under their sight. So reporting ongoing suspects (e.g. a suspect passenger in your Greyhound or Town Bus) by SMS is safer.
To facilitate the usage of SMS, always store short sentences for emergency in your mobile phone. Like "Heart attack", "Suspects here", "No. 49, Jensen Street, Your City". That's in case these messages could be used.
2)Self-lock: you don't want to lose your cell phone to a potential dangerous counterpart, be it your untrustworthy employee, your competitor of your field, a credit card fraud or some privacy hunters.
However, if your phone is protected too well (with good complexity), you may find that you can't dial out immediately in an emergency.
An effective way is to encode your privacy information in password-protected archives. That way, any one who steals your mobile phone will only get a phone list of 911 and local emergency centers, a list of messages such as "There's a girl on my bus...".
3)Phone number fraud: It is very similar to IP address deceiving. Someone may pretend that his or her number is another one.
1)SMS (Short Message Service): SMS may not be very convenient since the keyboard is small and you input slowly. However, the best thing of SMS is silence. No one will notice your SMS if you are not under their sight. So reporting ongoing suspects (e.g. a suspect passenger in your Greyhound or Town Bus) by SMS is safer.
To facilitate the usage of SMS, always store short sentences for emergency in your mobile phone. Like "Heart attack", "Suspects here", "No. 49, Jensen Street, Your City". That's in case these messages could be used.
2)Self-lock: you don't want to lose your cell phone to a potential dangerous counterpart, be it your untrustworthy employee, your competitor of your field, a credit card fraud or some privacy hunters.
However, if your phone is protected too well (with good complexity), you may find that you can't dial out immediately in an emergency.
An effective way is to encode your privacy information in password-protected archives. That way, any one who steals your mobile phone will only get a phone list of 911 and local emergency centers, a list of messages such as "There's a girl on my bus...".
3)Phone number fraud: It is very similar to IP address deceiving. Someone may pretend that his or her number is another one.
