Lost phone turns up in Hong Kong
STUDENT’S MISSING MOBILE IS LOCATED 6,000 MILES AWAY
A STUDENT from the University of Huddersfield lost her phone and was shocked when it turned up – in Hong Kong.
Lainey Fricker-Harrison, 20, who is studying photography, was in Manchester when her phone disappeared.
She thought it might have landed in the wrong hands somewhere local.
But the student heard nothing more about it – until she received a message on Monday, more than a month later, saying her lost phone had been activated with a new sim card.
She then received some suspicious messages that she thinks were a scam, saying her photo stream had been ‘ restored’ into the phone of ‘Mr Jack’.
She didn’t click on the link as a precaution, and changed her phone from lost mode to ‘erase my iPhone’. Lainey logged on to Find My iPhone and discovered the device was in Hong Kong, near the border with China. And she couldn’t get over it.
She even joked that she will write to the bosses at BBC Three, to see if they want to send her there for a documentary about her quest to find it.
Lainey, from Oldham, lost the phone during a shopping trip to the Manchester Arndale Centre on August 3. “I have never been to Hong Kong,” she said. “How has it got there?
“I don’t know if BBC Three would want to do a documentary, and send me out there, like they do with Stacey Dooley. I’ll appeal to BBC Three.
“My friends said ‘that’s something that would only happen to you’. I do get in stupid situations on nights out. But I have never ended up in Hong Kong.”