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warkdarrior

It's a big enough problem in Brazil that the government has an official app to report incidents of phone theft:

https://www.gov.br/pt-br/apps/celular-seguro-br

https://www.gov.br/pt-br/servicos/comunicar-roubo-furto-de-a...

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>an official app to report incidents of phone theft

I can't be the only person to see the irony here. Do they also have a drive-thru to report car theft?

RTFM

After you install it you cana "safe contact" or do the reporting on a website which will blocklist the phone's IMEI on all phone companies, block any banking app sessions and remotely wipe the phone.

It also functions as a public searchable database of stolen phones, allowing a prospective buyer of a second hand device to check it.

Thats actually pretty awesome.

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