Lost my wallet in a taxi

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  1. #1

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    Lost my wallet in a taxi

    Hi everyone.
    I've lost my green colour wallet in a taxi today, while going from Kennedy Town to HSBC main building in Central. It has my Credit cards (Which of course I have cancelled already), ATM card (Cancelled as well), HKID and other Access cards. Perhaps someone who got on the taxi after me would have found it. And if that someone is reading this please contact me at 94637720.
    Many thanks!!!!!!


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    call the taxi company..

    Call the taxi lost property!

    Other threads showed that honesty is not a lost value here.

    Kung Hei Fat Choi


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    tell the taxi centre and tell them the taxi no. if you remember


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    I already did that but they haven't got a clue yet. Registered a complaint at the Police station as well. It had a few hundred dollars in it as well so I don't think its coming back (


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    You might get it back. I got my wallet back in 2003 and my cell phone back in 2006. I'm a lot more careful with my stuff nowadays!


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    same here .... mobile returned and wallet .... once in a taxi which I was able to trace bc I had the receipt another time I literally left them on the top of the ATM machine while withdrawing money.


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    one time, i lost my **** id card and never return. cost me few hundreds bababa...


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    Yeah, I lost my ID and $500 once. Never got it back! On the flip side, I was asked if I'd lost a large sum of cash (all in thousands) in a thin leather wallet the other day, and I said it wasn't mine. It ended up being one of my clients' wallets!


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    Unknowingly, I had dropped my wallet in a cab late at night last summer while getting out to make a dash for cover in pouring rain at the HKCC parking. Only HKD 60 or so in there but lots of cards - cc's, ATM cards (local and overseas), Perm HKID, driver's licences, social insurance, citizenship, loyalty clubs, etc. And this just a month before moving from HK - the last thing I needed. Called the cab lost and found number (searching Geoexpat threads), finally decided not to pay for the broadcast because of the very limited service they offered and the shift change that had just happened. Started the cc/atm/hkid card cancellation and replacement process and next morning made a police report at the Happy Valley station where they keyed everything into a database.

    Five days later got a call from Citibank (credit cards) to say that my wallet had been turned in at xyz police station.

    Apparently, cop stations have a bin outside which people can drop found stuff into anonymously.

    The wallet was wet from the rainwater in the bin and everything was intact except the money, which the cabbie must have taken (small price to pay) and the HKID card which the cop station had taken and cancelled. It must have been the cabbie who dropped it there - the location of the copstation where cabs line up to go into Shun Tak Centre suggests that. Interestingly, I don't think the police looked at all at the database to link up with the police report I had filed at - otherwise, they might have called me on my cellphone. Instead they called my local credit card bank (Citi) to pass on the message.

    Anyway, it saved me a huge lot of bother - esp Canadian citizenship card, SIN, driver's licence, all of which I was still mulling what to do about, and the loyalty cards. The cc/atm replacement process was irreversible once begun.


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    Quote Originally Posted by ssingh15:
    I already did that but they haven't got a clue yet. Registered a complaint at the Police station as well. It had a few hundred dollars in it as well so I don't think its coming back (
    may i ask what your police complaint is? or do you mean you filed a police report.
    Last edited by lulumay; 27-01-2009 at 07:47 PM.

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