Recovery Stories

22 Oct 2024
USA453005

Received call on the 24/7 Recovery Hotline from Good Samaritan that found a laptop with STOP ID# in Palm Beach, FL. Contacted laptop, large credit union admin with device details. The gentlemen agreed to ship the laptop back to the bank via the prepaid FedEx shipping label.

18 Oct 2024
USA449213

Received a call from a good Samaritan at Boston College Law School that he found an IBM ThinkPad laptop in their Audio-Visual Dept. Per the STOP ID Security Plate ID#, was able to confirm the company that owned the device. Contacted the company with the finders contact info. The company IT admin reached out to the finder this morning and is returning to rightful owner in person.

16 Oct 2024
USA470377

A good Samaritan located in Connecticut found a backpack leaning against her car at her apartment complex parking lot. The backpack contained an HP Chromebook with a STOP Security plate. Using the Plate ID# was able to contact the administrator for the local board of education and confirm the end user. The admin will contact will contact the person holding the laptop to recover. Recovery in process.

14 Oct 2024
USA353186
2 Oct 2024
USA516604

Received a call from police officer, from Le Mesa, San Diego who had a gentleman in custody with a HP Chromebook with our STOP ID plate ID on his possession. Person claimed that he rented it from the Library who owned the device. Reached out to the library for confirmation if the device was rented from them. Recovery in process.

30 Sep 2024
USA451686

We received a call today from a Adrian, a Target employee who found a Chromebook with a STOP Security Plate S ID# in the back of the sales room floor at a Target Store location in Aventura, FL. Contacted the local library in Miami for owned the device and provided them with STOP ID# information. The library and Target employee were able coordinated a recovery for the Chromebook.

27 Sep 2024
USA421913

Received a call from an employee at a consulting and technologies company. They informed me that they received a laptop that was shipped to them inadvertently and are holding it for future instructions. Based on the STOP security plate ID#, was able to contact a large financial services company to report the incident. Company informed me they will work with consulting firm to recover laptop.

27 Sep 2024
USA151941

We received a call yesterday evening from a good Samaritan who found a local school laptop with a Security Plate Stop ID# on the street in the Bronx, Using the stop ID we contacted the school to inform them of the found laptop. Per the school, the laptop was gifted to the student upon graduation and has been decommissioned. Locating former student in process.

26 Sep 2024
USA552944

Good Samaritan contacted STOP yesterday to advise us that a STOP-tagged Dell Laptop was found in the woods of Washington, DC. Per the STOP ID information, contacted a large waste management company and provided them with contact info. Device recovered.

20 Sep 2024
USV94857

A good Samaritan found iPad on the street in Rochester, NY with the STOP Security Plate. Using the STOP ID confirmed it belonged to a children's center. Working with the center's admin to recover the iPad and return to the end user. The children center advised us that they will work with the patron to recover the iPad.

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