Prevent Cell Phone Theft With Knowledge

By recording your cell phone’s serial number, when your phone disappears, the cell phone company can render the phone useless even if the sim card is changed.

To check your mobile phone’s serial number, key in the following on your phone:

star-hash-zero-six-hash ( * # 0 6 # )

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5 responses to “Prevent Cell Phone Theft With Knowledge”

  1. GoldenAppleCorp Avatar

    I read about this on Snopes the other day, and decided to try to get my phone’s serial number.
    It didn’t work. :/ Perhaps a Nextel fault.

  2. djuggler Avatar

    Guess I should have tried. Ah! Works on a Motorola v400

  3. Latte Man Avatar

    Doesn’t work on my Audiobox XV6600 either 🙁

    But I just opened then back and grabbed the ESN number (same as the serial number)

  4. husham Avatar
    husham

    thankyo for all

  5. husham Avatar
    husham

    thankyou for all

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