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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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.
Guess I should have tried. Ah! Works on a Motorola v400
Doesn’t work on my Audiobox XV6600 either 🙁
But I just opened then back and grabbed the ESN number (same as the serial number)
thankyo for all
thankyou for all