This is useful not only if you are buying a second-hand phone to check that the IMEI matches the actual description of the phone (it’s not fake) but also if it was reported lost or stolen or is blacklisted (or blocklisted now). I’m not sure how widely the site is retrieving the info, but it certainly matched my phones perfectly.
I also managed to report one phone as stolen and another as lost (which were the cases) so it can be useful to flag this here too if this happens to you. There are actually many sites which provide these services.
A way to quickly check a phone’s IMEI number is to dial *#06# which will send a USSD query and return the IMEI number on the screen.
See IMEI CHECK – Free Online IMEI Number Checker | IMEI.info
Also read here about what happened to my daughter being scammed into buying a fake Samsung phone off the Facebook Marketplace in Cape Town, and what to watch out for.
For Apple devices you can use their warranty check site to see if a serial number of various Apple devices is valid.
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