2 posts tagged “stolen”
Just when you thought it was safe to go around stealing phones, the power of Mobile 2.0 is breathing its fire once again.
I received a Flickr mail from one of our users, Awbalfour, telling me that his lovely (and expensive) Nokia N93 was stolen with ShoZu installed and pointing to his Flickr account. Immediately I got flash backs of this evil Chihuahua from our last stolen phone story. Turns out this one has a bit of a twist.
Not only was the thief inadvertently uploading random photos with ShoZu to Awbalfour's Flickr account, but also photos of himself. Normally that wouldn't be so much of an issue, unless you happen to be the cleaner at Awbalfour's office! BUSTED!
Action is being taken and I am following the Flickr comments to see how this one ends!
You can see pictures of the thief and the developing story over here. Go ShoZu go!
Ben’s phone was stolen on a train in California and several days later he noticed random pictures popping up in his Flickr account -- the little Chihuahua you see here, hotted up cars and a mysterious family he had never seen before. And then it dawned on him. He remembered he had ShoZu installed and set to auto-upload! The thief had replaced the SIM card with his own but had no idea that ShoZu was running and still activated to Ben’s Flickr account. Meanwhile the thief’s personal photos were being viewed by hundreds of thousands of people following the story. BUSTED!
Of course the story was subject to much speculation from the general public, accusing ShoZu of guerilla marketing tactics. All we can say is that we wish we thought of it first!
You can read more on Ben’s blog and also view the Flickr conversation that went on around the famous Chihuahua photo viewed by 277,000 people.
