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What do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
Wouldn’t iPhones be useless?
I thought they has security numbers that would be recognised when they connect to network?
I could well be wrong though. .
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4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
It did have an ■■■■■■, the guy in the ■■■■■■ vehicle was ■■■■■■■ with the driver.
You say an inside job ‘for sure’…are you implicating the driver or what?
robroy:
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
It did have an ■■■■■■, the guy in the ■■■■■■ vehicle was ■■■■■■■ with the driver.
You say an inside job ‘for sure’…are you implicating the driver or what?
Nope, but someone knew what was being moved, where from and where to, an office person perhaps? . I’m sure the driver had nothing to do with it
Franglais:
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
Wouldn’t iPhones be useless?
I thought they has security numbers that would be recognised when they connect to network?
I could well be wrong though. .
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I don’t think it mentions iPhones in the article though
It was all over soshal meeja this morning, and everyone saying the same thing. Inside job.
Lots of internet detectives about these days.
Ken.
njl:
Franglais:
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
Wouldn’t iPhones be useless?
I thought they has security numbers that would be recognised when they connect to network?
I could well be wrong though. .
.I don’t think it mentions iPhones in the article though
I did notice that, and the thread title.
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As you almost hint, mincemeat might be more seasonal?
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work. Also iPhone are nearly all matched parts on newer models so wouldn’t even be much use as spare parts unless you have to kit to read and write the old serial numbers to the new parts and AFAIK only certain parts can be used currently as spares even with the right kit. . So the whole shipment is worth an absolute fraction of the total cost I would think.
Franglais:
njl:
Franglais:
4yorks:
Apple products worth £5m stolen from lorry in M1 robbery | UK News | Sky NewsWhat do you guys recon? An inside job for sure. You would have thought a load of that value would have live tracking and perhaps a security ■■■■■■ too?
Wouldn’t iPhones be useless?
I thought they has security numbers that would be recognised when they connect to network?
I could well be wrong though. .
.I don’t think it mentions iPhones in the article though
I did notice that, and the thread title.
.
As you almost hint, mincemeat might be more seasonal?
C’mon Rodney, Mickey Pearce has 12 boxes of Apple products going cheap we can shift down the market on Friday
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work. Also iPhone are nearly all matched parts on newer models so wouldn’t even be much use as spare parts unless you have to kit to read and write the old serial numbers to the new parts and AFAIK only certain parts can be used currently as spares even with the right kit. . So the whole shipment is worth an absolute fraction of the total cost I would think.
I think you’re missing the rather obvious point that the thieves don’t give a monkey’s about it being traceable or blocked. Once they have the end-user punter’s money they’ll be long gone before said punter finds out it’s nicked.
Like this driver that also got ‘hijacked’!!
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work.
The thieves probably know a way around this, especially if the phones end up on the streets in Asia.
I always thought high value items like that would be kept in secure locked cages to ensure they can’t be easily nicked, rather than on pallets.
It would also seem logical for very desirable loads to include a GPS tracker inside the pallet load (ideally inside an empty box) to ensure its traceable at least until they have time to break the loads down and find it.
The fact that there’s very few details about number of suspects, how they did it and even colours / makes of vehicles stolen makes me think they know who they are looking for. Possibly tracking them as part of a wider operation.
simcor:
Anyone with any sense would know its pointless to steal phones. All the IMEI numbers will be listed and blocked so registering the phones would be useless as they wouldn’t work.
There are plenty of countries in the world where IMEI blocking isn’t implemented. And do you think the thieves care if it is? Once they’ve sold them to unsuspecting saps on Ebay and Facebook do you think you’ll get your money back if it turns out to be blocked? Even if Paypal refund you they’ll still have got their cash and be long gone.
When I used to do very high value loads, a trailer load would be divided into three trailers and your would drive in convey 3 drivers 3 artics and it you would be in big big trouble if you break the convey up. Thieves wouldn’t get a chance, you not allowed to stop for a pee or for any other reason(not good if you got the runs)
If it was Iphones, is it £5 million resale value or £5 million at cost to Apple? Come to think of it, cost to apple would need a ■■■■■■■ container ship to hold £5 million worth!
A familiar stomping ground - for many of us…
Transfer trailer to different tractor, drive to maybe Magna Park, unload using local facilities there, lose track of entire load thereafter.
Very professionally done, almost certainly an inside job…
Already a thread on this winseer cheers Ray
If it wasn’t the driver or security guard who was the insider, then I’d go for the planner or dispatcher. To have all the things in place to ensure they stole what they did shows clear forward planning, not just a bunch of chancers who followed the truck.
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Anyone involved with that load from the warehouse guys who picked it and loaded the trailer, gatehouse attendants etc upwards would have known exactly what was on it and where it was going.
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