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I had a bit of a scare this evening. This afternoon I was in town listening to a small and short and free outdoor concert. When I got home I couldn't find my phone. I thought I looked all over my apartment. I suspected it may have fallen out of my pocket at the concert. Yikes!
I went down the street to the gas station and used their phone booth. I left a voice mail on my cell, giving my email and home addresses, in case anyone found it. When I got home a few minutes later, I heard the voice mail alert sound and found the phone. This prompted a few questions. (I'll have to also visit Tracfone's FAQs on their site, etc.)
I went down the street to the gas station and used their phone booth. I left a voice mail on my cell, giving my email and home addresses, in case anyone found it. When I got home a few minutes later, I heard the voice mail alert sound and found the phone. This prompted a few questions. (I'll have to also visit Tracfone's FAQs on their site, etc.)
- What's the standard procedure if I find a lost phone, aside from turning it into the nearest lost and found? Keep it and call someone in the phone's contact list to try to learn the owner's identity?
- If I can't retrieve my old phone in a "reasonable time," and have to get a new one, do phone companies port the old number, so that I keep the old one?
- Do they carry-over the accrued minutes I had on the old phone?
- What if I get the old one back after I've gotten a new one? Combine minutes? Have two phones with the same number? (That doesn't happen, does it?)
- Do I call the phone company and have them cancel the account of the old phone while I'm trying to get a new one?
- Was it a mistake for me to give my email and home addresses, because of potential identity theft exposure?
- Should I etch my email address on the case? Or something like that?
- Any other things one should consider if one loses or finds a phone?
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