I have gotten my phones stolen twice and lost on one occasion.

This is my experience. The First phone i used in my life is Motorola Timeport. I lost it at a police checking point. I placed it on my lap carelessly and when we were ordered out for stop and search in the night, it dropped. I made effort to call my fone later but it has bn switched off.

The second fone dropped into the water at the beach and stopped working even after drying it. I kept it in the pocket of my jacket at home and it developed wings and dissappeared.

But the way my last fone got stolen is a lesson which i think all of us should share, so that we can watch it in future.
In Lagos now, distraction is the tool for stealing Mobile phones.
It was a peaceful evening as I was driving home from the office after a long days work. I almost got home when i received a call and i thought since I'm almost at my destination I should just ignore it. I left my two phones on the seat besides me in the hold up. The light on my phone attracted these phone robbers, and they used the distraction method for me.

One Okada rider just crossed my vehicle and hit my vehicle's body on the drivers side with his hand and said "Oga, your fuel is leaking". I got distracted for a minute and the next minute the two fones on my side was gone. How it happened I don't know. It was so fast that I had to laugh at myself. I thought I was smart until these happened. I felt so stupid. "WON LO T'EKO FUNMI".

Share your experience too, so that others can learn from your mistake or carelessness.

Ladies generally dont lost their fones. Why?, because its always in a pouch placed in a purse inside another purse in anther bag.

You 're smart.

. oh boy!

This was a friend's experience. He got hugged by someone and in the next minute the fone and money was gone. The guy showed up from nowhere hugged my friend and apologised later that he thought my friend was someone he knows. Its like he cast a spell on my friend for some period of time. He realised minutes later that he's been robbed.

My dear am sorry that mess, you gotta be more careful next time cos people can be so bad

Mine happened like two months ago.I had just gotten back from the gym early inthe morning by around 7am so decided to chill out in front of my house with my brothers.It had been a while since I had indulged in akara and bread so as the vendor passed,I called her and bought some.We ate it outside because not many people were about then.Some minutes later,we entered inside,2minutes after,I recalled that I had forgotten my phone at the gate,I ran to retrieve it but alas!!!it was no more there!!! I did not know what to do with myself,I felt so bad.I was like dumbfounded.So much for eating akara and bread!!!

Mine happened on public transport, the packed tubes in london you know at rush hour, as I stood up to get off the trainn someone thiefed my beloved D600 from my pocket. I hadn't realised until I got off the train. Upset and with my dismay my friends and family started ringing me at home that evening, they insisted that a man that had found my phone and wanted to give it back to me, thanking my lucky stars I was soo happy that there were honest people in the world. I rang my phone for days until one day the thief finally answered, he starting questioning me, asking me stupid questions like how much my phone was worth to me as I could afford such a nice phone, he kept on trying to get £200 for it. I thought why should I pay for a phone which was free to me when I signed a contract, so I locked the phone off. The thing was my insurance cover for the phone had just expired a month earlier so me thinking that I was being clever decided not to renew it and what for my phone upgrade. Like an idiot I guess.

You mean people can actually steal your fone and still call you to negotiate. That's rather strange. Here in Lagos, once stolen, just forget it.

@seye. Dem dey negotiate for las gidi too O. Only say when time reach make you come collect am na that time wahala go yazo. Cos you dont know what to expect. reminds me of the satelite tracking company in Lagos who traced a car to a property behind Marwa gardens recently. Old boy when dem wan go check out the place, na the whole police wey dey lagos na im dem carry go just incase na Shinor Rambo open the door. The stolen car was actually found within the premises of a respectable member of society.

. If its my fone. I wont show up. I'll rather employ an area boy who understand their language. That is if the fone is very expensive. If not, i'll bid the fone byebye. like u said you never know what to expect. or rather i'll invite him to Mr Biggs or something and there we can talk.

Yes but that will depend on his tone of conversation. If he's a rash fellow you'll know in his tone of voice.

Funny enough,it was a girl that picked my phone. because after some days,I tried calling my line and surprisingly,it rang and a girl picked it.I was surprised that she had not thrown the line away yet.I wonder why I have not retrieved my number.

It must have been his brother that stole it and dashed it out to her. girls do have the guts to steal things like fones.

I have quite some experience, thrice beaten

1. I was inside a bus one day in July 2004 and there was this guy sitting beside me. At a point I felt he was so restless and he got down one bust stop before mine. When I got down, I checked and my phone was nowhere to be found.
2. Late 2004, I closed late one day from work and it was as if they were waiting for me to pass. I was robbed by three guys and my initial reaction was to fight back but when I saw the steel, I quenched.
3. Just last month at a friend's wedding, inside a church, I was excited to see friends from long ago; lo and behold the phone was lifted clean from me. I knew immediately but who I go arrest? Painfully the phone is a P910i, so you can feel my agony. That phone was like heaven for me 'cos I use it for a lotta things.

Another method they use is to pretend as if you wronged them, like they step on your toes and claim that you were the one that stepped on them. They will want to fight you and in the course, remove your phone, simple as ABC. God help us in Lagos but the truth is there a lotta jobless young men around and until they are engaged this will continue.

I've never lost any of my phones before and never being stolen.

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3. Just last month at a friend's wedding, inside a church, I was excited to see friends from long ago; lo and behold the phone was lifted clean from me.

I've not actually had my fone stolen but my fone has spoilt once, it was so bad that i couldn't use
i stayed for sometime without a fone and i felt like it was the end of the world coz there was no communicatioin

Well, maybe l am lucky but l have never been in such a situation as to loose my phone.

it get one of my guy friends from United states wey go naija for xmas. So sha, this guy think say he still de yankee. na so he come enter for one danfo bus, come dress up as in to look cute. Sha, come put him phone for inside back pocket. ( na latest phone be that " blackberry". I no know wetin the guy de think. Come de seat for him phone. Sha, my guy come notice say him phone de missing, come de ask danfo driver someone thief him phone. Danfo driver come de say, you mad, this na common thing, no disturb me jo. Na so , one of them yankee boys come de call my boy for that moment from yankee with ring tone ( yankee ring tone saying shut the mess up , the girl is a hoe by 50 cent) na so my boy come de hear the tone for one fine chick pocket. and o boy , my guy friend's ring tone is loud, the chick come de pretend, na so everybody come de shout to the chick, bring out everything wey de your purse, na so the chick come de bring out everything one by on eand guess what, my guy saw his phone. Anyways, guys be careful, fine chicks de steal cell phone for lagos too. So that na my own story. Stay cool.

NB: ignorant  naija girl, she no know say phone no de vibrate. lol

One's home is supposed to be secure but lo and behold my phone was stolen from my living room while i was charging it ,and the last thing i heard from my room was flashing bout thirty minutes b4 i discovered it was stolen, guess they were not interested in the charger.I didnt hear a thing and i was sleeping in the room just next door.

experienced that twice but the third time was quite interesting, it was an old very troublesome motorola, of hich would not recharge also and constandly went off, and i was planning to get a new one. Guess what, after a sharking program, the guys came ordering us to surrender all valueble items esp. fones and money, Guez what,
i was the first to get releived from mine and dissapeared like a rescued man saved from mouth of a hungry lionness

never have, almost though, left my 2day old phone [sagem] on the field while playing footy with my brother but by that night a good samaritan called me and brought the phone back to me!, havent lost my phone since then, because i know i am going to be paying the company a fortune  , so i always hang my headphones by it so its easier

I have lost my phone twice. And on the two occasion I recovered it. First is on a taxi, after calling my phone for over 2 hrs. The driver picked and told me to come and pick my phone.

The second one, I lost it in a bus. A lady banker picked, who later started demanding for some goodies. I recovered that one two.

Imagine the one I lost and could not recover. A phone sent to me from Uk, which is inside a pack in my room. It grow wings and disappeared. I opened my windows so that it can fly back after the picnic, but no way.

Disappeared without trace, right in my house, in my room.

Well, my fone was stolen from me once on Falomo bridge. Every one who stays on the Island in Lagos knows that place is dangerous. It happend last year, we had a flat tyre and stopped to change it when, yes, the guys on okada came for a visit. My husband was on the outside and I was inside the car with the baby. My hubby said I should lock the car from the inside. Well they were four and they had this giangantic hammers which they used to break the car window(with me and the baby inside) and they took my bag and everything in it. It was an awfull experience.