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FERDINAND

This info. from a local magazine, which may be of interest :-

"To find the serial no. of your celluar phone, key in the following on your mobile phone: star hash zero six hash (*#06#). A fifteen digit code will appear on the screen. This no. is unique to your handset. Keep it somewhere safe. Should your phone be stolen, you can call your service provider and give them this code. They in turn will be able to block your handset so that even if the Sim. Card is changed the phone will be totally usless. Whoever stole it cannot use it or resell it. If every body did this, there would be no point in stealing mobile phones anymore. THIS REALLY DOES WORK !. This may be of particular use to those of you that have teenage children, since they seem to be the ones at greatest risk of having their phones stolen."

While I will be doing this in spite of the fact that I do not use my phone very often. I find them very expensive. Do you know I put a £5 card on my phone in July 2003 and I only have £1.57 left.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Regards,
John

It may be the early bird that catches the worm , but it's always the second mouse that gets the cheese.

phylymann

Yep it works...thanks

I still have £3.36 left on mine...we Autocruise owners don't use our phones very often Very Happy

badger

OK....Done that.....Only problem is I seem to lose bits of paper..............so I've stored the number in my phone!!!!

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zulurita

Thanks, I did have that info and had obtained the number for my new phone, but its good to let everyone know. Smile

androidGB

Sorry to spoil the party, but this only works on newer mobile phones. It is possible for the thief to reprogram the phone and change the IMEI no on older phones.

Also the list of stolen phones database is only maintained by UK providers, thus there is still a market for stolen mobile phones in Europe

Andrew

wilecoyote

PamNPete

Mines a pay & go and 5 years old Pams is 1o years old

Only put a few quid on - max £15 (you get another £5 extra free)
this will last till our next trip

If antbody sees em dont think thel want to pinch em unless they run a museum