How to check if a phone is stolen

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Originally published at: http://boingboing.net/2017/05/12/how-to-check-if-a-phone-is-sto.html

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Should be “How to check if an American phone is stolen” - To save the rest of the world the click-through.

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Ask Uber?

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Thank you for taking the hit for all the rest.

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so a guy asks for the #, I give it to him no problem because hey, I am a stand up guy, and then the guy adds the # to the stolen phone registry and accuses me of stealing it and threatens to go to law enforcement unless I give him the phone.

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then the guy adds the # to the stolen phone registry

It doesn’t work like that.
If you had read the FAQ on their site you’d know that.

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I bet if you find out the phone is stolen you can really talk them down on the price!

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I can’t be alone in thinking giving Imei to inverted strangers is somehow a bad idea.

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Like that?

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