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Do you know how to check if my iphone is blacklisted?
Go to checkesnfree.com to see if the phone is blacklisted. It says whether the phone
is blacklisted in the U.S. or Canada.
How do you blacklist a phone?
Get the IMEI number, the international mobile station equipment identity. You can blacklist
the phone using that IMEI number.
That’s hard to get if the phone was stolen.
It should be on the box in which the phone came.
What’s another option?
Call the cell phone provider. Report the phone lost or stolen and ask them to blacklist it.
Can they blacklist it without the IMEI?
If they have your user name, your credentials, cell phone number of the stolen phone and
your report that it is stolen, the cell phone carrier can blacklist it.
I heard they want a police case number and the IMEI.
They’d like one, but you don’t have to have one. And you have to act fast when someone
may have stolen a phone, because they’ll be eager to sell it or run up the minutes.
Here’s a dumb question. What happens if I find out a drunk friend took it by accident
or it was hiding in the bottom of the closet?
You can un-blacklist a phone through the phone carrier, if that’s what happened. Though
they’ll want an affidavit from you to take it off the blacklist.
That’s a lot of work.
You made them go through a lot of work to blacklist it and disable it. They want to
verify that you’re you and not the thief trying to reactivate the phone.
How do you know if a phone someone is offering is blacklisted?
In theory, you could go to imei.info and query the phone’s status. Or you could cancel
your cell phone service account to kill the device.
A thief could swap out the SIM card and keep going.
Yeah, but at least it isn’t on your dime.
These days, cell phone charges are by the dollar.