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"Mobile Phone Loss in the UK"
Mobile phone loss is not covered by many insurance policies, and this leads to higher mobile phone crime figures ...
Mobile phone crime is clearly a serious problem.
Phone theft is what drives many people to get their phone insured in the first place - they cost a lot of money to replace.
This is why mobile phone insurance companies exist.
Yet many insurance companies seem to thrive
off the crime statistics, in order to sell their insurance policies.
It is worth noting that loss is a key factor behind the crime figures;
Because many insurance policies do not cover loss, when a customer loses their phone, they commit fraud by claiming it was 'stolen', thereby increasing
the figures for 'phone crime'.
By insuring your phone for loss, you are effectively helping o bring the mobile phone crime figures down!
This is why it is important to know whether your phone is protected against loss. You can see the companies that cover loss effectively in the
reviews section.
Loss is one of the key factors that the MPI UK insurance is rated so highly (see
MPI UK review for details).
Police move to cut false handset theft claims
Police in London, UK mounted a series of raids on retailers suspected of involvement in mobile phone insurance fraud.
Rogue sales staff have apparently advised customers who have lost their mobile phones to report them as stolen, so that
they can claim on the insurance and get a new handset.
The move comes after studies estimated that of the 70,000 reported handset thefts last year, as many as 40,000 could have
been bogus reports, allowing the customer to make a fake claim on their insurance for a replacement handset.
Police have arrested twelve retail staff in different shops - when shops were dealing with customers - to give maximum
exposure to the raids. Arrests took place at Phones 4u, Carphone Warehouse and the retail outlets operated by the four
network operators as well as some independent retailers. Undercover police had visited 98 shops prior to the raid to
decide which were the worst cases of fraud.
The operation, codenamed Pavilion, was devised after a pilot scheme to study mobile thefts in Marylebone found 15%
of reports were false. As most insurance policies do not cover loss of a handset, only theft - retail staff were
routinely encouraging the customers to make a claim of theft and report it to the police. Despite warnings from the
police to dissuade the practice, only The Link and Dixon have apparently increased staff training in this area.
Assistant Commissioner Tim Godwin, in charge of the operation, said: "These people encouraging false claims of theft
are doing London a great disservice. There is a perception that the capital is riddled with street offenders and that
has an impact on tourists and street safety.
"We want to stop these false reports because this is a crime that is frightening people."
(Courtesy of cellular-news)
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"A quarter of mobile phone thefts are faked, says forum. A government task force says nearly a quarter of reported mobile phone thefts are faked."
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