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Road-warrior user returns to his home office and reports to the local IT pilot fish that his cell phone was stolen at an airport -- and now he can't log into his laptop.
Fish examines the laptop, turns it on and asks, "Is this your laptop?"
Yes, it's my laptop and my computer bag, user replies.
Fish shakes his head. "This isn't your laptop," he says. "The log-in screen shows a computer name and domain that doesn't belong to our company."
It doesn't take long to work out that the user probably grabbed the wrong bag at the airport security checkpoint -- one carrying exactly the same model of laptop.
Laptop vendor helps track down the other laptop's owner, and the computers are eventually exchanged.
"But when our user's laptop was returned, the hard drive had been reformatted," reports fish.
"Since they couldn't log into it, they thought it had a virus and wiped the hard drive.
"The cell phone was never recovered."
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