Blocking A Stolen Mobile Phone

someonesgottosayit

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

My current phone that I am using in Africa is an HTC One that was purchased from an auction and was barred when I obtained it (very cheaply).

How do you know that phone was not stolen. Phones are barred for a reason.

shaun_from_Africa

someonesgottosayit wrote: »

How do you know that phone was not stolen. Phones are barred for a reason.

There is a very good chance that it had been stolen prior to me purchasing it.
As I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread, I often buy phones that are stolen/recovered and unclaimed lost property.

These are bought at an auction house not too far from where I live, and they often have a fairly large selection of items such as this which they are selling off on behalf of various organisations, one of which is the local police force.

The auction house will only sell barred phones that are being sold by known and trusted sources so an ordinary "Joe Bloggs" couldn't walk in and sell off a bunch of barred mobiles.

spannerzone

So, if you get the SIM blocked can the network provider still bar the phone's IMEI or is it another system that just passes on the IMEI to all Euro networks to prevent that particular IMEI from registering onto the network?