Used Blackberry Gives Buyer a Hotline to Hollywood
Saturday, February 14, 2009
From the Mail Online:
As chances to impress family and friends go, internet shopper Kent Devey landed the big one.
After buying a second-hand BlackBerry for a bargain 16 pounds on eBay, the 28-year-old was amazed to find he had unwittingly acquired a priceless hotline to some of the world's biggest movie stars.
When he scrolled through the hand-held computer's contacts list he found the phone numbers and email addresses of A-list celebrities including Jude Law, Kevin Spacey, Natalie Portman, Julie Walters and Julianne Moore.
Among the 50 showbusiness contacts on the list were Stephen Fry, Paul O'Grady, Janet Street-Porter, Melvyn Bragg and Tom Stoppard.
The world of pop music was represented by X-Factor judge Louis Walsh and singers Neil Tennant and Alison Moyet.
For anyone tempted to drop lines such as, "Well, as Julie Walters was telling me the other day" into conversation the temptation to get dialling would have been almost irresistible.
But insurance worker Mr Devey was made of sterner stuff and intends to return the BlackBerry to its original owner.
Yesterday he explained how the telephone numbers fell into his lap.
"I wanted a BlackBerry so I could receive emails and found one for a really good price," he said.
"It arrived a couple of days later after I bought it online. As I started to look through it, I noticed that one of the emails hadn't been wiped off.
"Then I started to go through the numbers already saved on the phone, and as I scrolled through I started to recognize some of the names and I saw Jude Law's number.
"Then I came across Michael Gambon's number - he is one of my favourite actors so I felt pretty privileged.
"I told my brother and he didn't believe it, so we decided to ring a couple of the numbers. When I got through to Julie Walters' answer phone, I was speechless.
"Working for an insurance company I couldn't believe that these numbers weren't wiped from the phone before it was sold on."
After analyzing the email addresses, he believes the Black-Berry originally belonged to Marieke Spencer, an associate of Billy Elliot film director Stephen Daldry.
Mr Devey, of Oldbury, West Midlands, said: "I plan to ring the old owner of the phone, and explain what's happened."
As chances to impress family and friends go, internet shopper Kent Devey landed the big one.After buying a second-hand BlackBerry for a bargain 16 pounds on eBay, the 28-year-old was amazed to find he had unwittingly acquired a priceless hotline to some of the world's biggest movie stars.
When he scrolled through the hand-held computer's contacts list he found the phone numbers and email addresses of A-list celebrities including Jude Law, Kevin Spacey, Natalie Portman, Julie Walters and Julianne Moore.
Among the 50 showbusiness contacts on the list were Stephen Fry, Paul O'Grady, Janet Street-Porter, Melvyn Bragg and Tom Stoppard.
The world of pop music was represented by X-Factor judge Louis Walsh and singers Neil Tennant and Alison Moyet.
For anyone tempted to drop lines such as, "Well, as Julie Walters was telling me the other day" into conversation the temptation to get dialling would have been almost irresistible.
But insurance worker Mr Devey was made of sterner stuff and intends to return the BlackBerry to its original owner.
Yesterday he explained how the telephone numbers fell into his lap.
"I wanted a BlackBerry so I could receive emails and found one for a really good price," he said.
"It arrived a couple of days later after I bought it online. As I started to look through it, I noticed that one of the emails hadn't been wiped off.
"Then I started to go through the numbers already saved on the phone, and as I scrolled through I started to recognize some of the names and I saw Jude Law's number.
"Then I came across Michael Gambon's number - he is one of my favourite actors so I felt pretty privileged.
"I told my brother and he didn't believe it, so we decided to ring a couple of the numbers. When I got through to Julie Walters' answer phone, I was speechless.
"Working for an insurance company I couldn't believe that these numbers weren't wiped from the phone before it was sold on."
After analyzing the email addresses, he believes the Black-Berry originally belonged to Marieke Spencer, an associate of Billy Elliot film director Stephen Daldry.
Mr Devey, of Oldbury, West Midlands, said: "I plan to ring the old owner of the phone, and explain what's happened."
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