This past weekend some nifty bandits who have obviously been watching all the Ocean Eleven flicks had what we call in the hood a “Come Up”. 36,000 T-Mobile phones were stolen from a warehouse were T-Mobile houses some of their phones. The Majority of the phones that were stolen were the ultra popular T-Moblie Sidekick.

T-Mobile issued an internal memo to let employees in its sales channels know about the theft. This is what it says:

Wanted to let you all know that one of our warehouses was broken into over the weekend and some 36,000 phones were stolen (worth about 8.2 Million). The most significant phones stolen were the Sidekick phones. Please make sure you inform the dealers who like to purchase gray market handsets that we are aggressively working with law enforcement to prosecute anyone who has these handsets. We do know the IMEI’s of the stolen phones and once they end up on our network we will go to the dealer code that activated the phone. So if your dealers get a call about Sidekicks and the deal is too good to be true you will know why.

The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number is essentially a code that is unique to each and every GSM-based handset.

As with other serial numbers, it is printed inside the phone, usually under the battery. It is used by the GSM network to identify valid devices. Good Looks IDUNZO (GAME BLOUSES)!