App: Mobile Number Locator

 

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Q: How does one find the carrier of a phone number? How does one find the location of a phone number?
A: As shown
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Relevant app background: "If you have been receiving phone calls from numbers you do not know, with Mobile Number Locator you will be able to know to whom the number that has been calling you belongs.....
You can know: - The name of the person or place that has been calling you. - To which telephone operator belongs.
- In the city or country the number was registered." ("Mobile Number Locator", https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/mobile-number-locator/id1392470717)
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Applications: Locked phones, Lost phones, Lost sim cards, Scam calls, police reports, Insurance claims
** For lost phones one may call their own phone from the lost phone they retrieve. They then have the option to return the phone to the rightful owner either through lost & found, phone carrier or by calling the owner!
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Relevant statistics on lost phones: "70 million smartphones are lost each year, with only 7 percent recovered. 4.3 percent of company-issued smartphones are lost or stolen every year.....
52 percent of devices are stolen from the office/workplace, and 24 percent from conferences." (“Mobile Device Security: Startling Statistics on Data Loss and Data Breaches", https://www.channelpronetwork.com/article/mobile-device-security-startling-statistics-data-loss-and-data-breaches)
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Relevant material on scam calls: “Scam artists are using phone numbers from more than a dozen federal government departments to defraud Canadians — making it look as if the calls are coming from legitimate government agencies and police departments — CBC News has learned....Some of the calls tell potential victims that their social insurance numbers have been compromised. Others are told that they owe the government money and are in legal trouble.” (“Scammers spoofing more than a dozen federal government departments to defraud Canadians", https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5348659)
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Relevant material on scam calls - Canada: "Since 2014, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre has received 78,472 reports from across Canada of scammers pretending to represent the CRA or Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. The centre said 4,695 people across Canada have lost more than $16.7 million to the scam...... The scam is having an impact on the ability of government departments to serve the public because they are being bogged down with phone calls from Canadians checking to see whether the calls they're getting are legitimate" ("Scammers spoofing more than a dozen federal government departments to defraud Canadians", https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5348659)
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Relevant statistics on scam calls - US: "Americans are collectively fending off over 4 billion spam calls per month. Some researchers suggest that phone spam will make up nearly half of all phone calls in the US by 2019, highlighting just how big of a problem we have on our hands in the States.... Americans lost nearly $9 billion from phone scams in 2018...The number of spam calls jumped over 300 percent worldwide between 2017 and 2018....1 in 10 US residents lost money from a phone scam..." ("35+ Phone Spam Statistics for 2017, 2018, 2019", https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/phone-spam-statistics/)
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Relevant Insurance Coverage for Consumer Electronics, Office & Gaming Equipment:
a) Personal Property Coverage that covers all electronics from perils like theft
b) Business equipment and Data Coverage
c) Commercial equipment coverage that covers computers, photo copiers and other electronics
d) Auto Insurance: OPCF 38 - Agreed limit for automobile Electronic Accessories and Equipment
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Location: Canada

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