Tips if Your Mobile Phone is Stolen

Written on Sunday, July 12, 2009 by Shiv Prasad

Drop a mobile phone is not an uncommon thing for anyone in this world. You must have heard that your friend or anyone else forget your phone in a hotel, car, garden, park. and when he or she will pick up the phone, the mobile phone is not there. Now what to do if your phone is stolen.

In many countries like the United Kingdom, there is the database of mobile phone which can prevent the lost or stolen mobile phones being used in any mobile network, and these mobile phones are stolen without value to anyone. This system works exactly like a credit card stolen, provided that you release your credit card, you simply makes a phone call to his bank vital to deactivate your credit card. Similar is the case with mobile phones, you call your provider, and gives a specific number to deactivate your stolen mobile phone. This system applies to both paid in advance and prepaid packages.

Each mobile in this world has a unique code known as international mobile equipment identity (IMEI number). This is a unique serial number of each mobile phone. If you provide this serial number to your network operator, turned off his mobile phone stolen. Nobody can use your mobile phone even if the person who stole your mobile, movable part in the new Sim mobile. This mobile will be useless for all networks or service providers. All mobile network operators off or disable the phone by reference to the unique IMEI number of mobile phone.

Now the question is how to get the IMEI number? This number can be found below the battery of mobile phone (which looks something like 087489/99/125486/9). You can also get this issue of the phone software, after entering code useful. Simply enter your mobile phone in the following code .* # 0 6 #

A 15 digit code appears on the screen after pressing the send button, or on some phones come automatically just by typing * # 0 6 #. So if you buy a cell phone, get this code from the battery or simply write code in your phone and get the IMEI number.

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