What To Do If Your Cellphone Is Subjected To Theft
Loosing a cellphone is not an uncommon thing for anyone in this world. You must have heard that your friend or any other person forget his or her phone in a hotel, car, garden, park. and when he or she goes to pick up phone, cellphone was not there where he or she left it. Now what to do if your cellphone is subjected to theft.
In many countries like Uk, there is cellphone database, which can prevent lost or stolen cellphones from being used on any mobile network, thus these stolen cellphones are worthless to anyone. This system exactly works like a stolen credit card, whenever you loose your credit card, you simply make a phone call to your requisite bank to deactivate your credit card. Similar is the case with cellphones, you call your service provider and give them a specific number to deactivate your stolen cellphone. This system applies to both prepay and postpaid packages.
Every mobile in this world has a unique code called as International mobile equipment identity (IMEI Number). This is a unique serial number of every cellphone. If you provide this serial number to your network operator, they will deactivate your stolen cellphone. No one can use your cellphone even if the person who has stolen your mobile, insert new sim in the mobile. This mobile will be useless for all networks or service providers. All mobile network operators will deactivate or disable the phone by reference to the unique IMEI nomber of the cellphone.
Now question is how to get this IMEI number? This number can normally be found under the battery of cellphone (looking something like 004400/01/123456/7). You can also get this number from the phone software, by entering following usefull code. Simply write down on your cellphone following code.* # 0 6 #
A 15 digit code will appear on the screen after pressing send button, or in some phones it comes automatically just by writing * # 0 6 #. So whenever you buy a cellphone, get this code from the battery or simply write above code on your phone and get IMEI number.
After this record this 15 digit IMEI number and your phone number on your personal note book, place this book at a safe place and thats it. Now suppose if you lost your phone, make a call to your service provider and give them your phone number and this particular key,i.e IMEI number. They will deactivate your stolen cellphone. You probably won't get your phone back, but at least you know that whoever stole it can't use/sell it either. If everybody does this, there would be no point in individuals stealing cellphones
Remember your cellphone is very valuable for you. You may have very important data stored in it. So take care of your cellphones. Don't use your mobile in crowded areas or where you might feel unsafe. Govenment is trying to encourage cellphone corporations to give more options for improving cellphone security.
So remember this simple code * # 0 6 #. Tell all your friends and colleagues to get IMEI number with the help of this code. If all of us simply follow this tip of making mobile secure, believe me no one will try to steal anyone's cellphone.
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