Buying a cell phone without documents from a private person is fraught with the acquisition of a stolen thing. In order not to be extreme in this situation, when choosing a phone, you should follow certain precautions.
Necessary
databases of stolen phones
Instructions
Step 1
When buying a mobile phone from your hands, you should roughly represent its real cost. If an expensive phone is sold at a very low price and does not have obvious defects, then the probability that it is stolen is quite high. This is especially true if the phone is sold without documents and a charger.
Step 2
Don't buy phones from dubious people. Try to understand what kind of person is offering you a mobile phone, evaluate whether his appearance and demeanor inspire confidence. If you like the cell phone, agree to the purchase, but on one condition - the seller will let you rewrite the data of his passport. Feel free to explain this requirement by fear of buying a stolen thing. A respectable person who urgently needs to sell his phone will agree to such conditions. You can simply take a photo of the first page of his passport with your own phone.
Step 3
There are many sites on the Internet with databases of stolen phones. Ask the seller to walk to the nearest Internet cafe and check the mobile phone against the databases. For verification, you will need the identification code of the phone - IMEI. To see it, turn on your phone and dial * # 06 #.
Step 4
You should be aware that checking against databases is not very effective, since not all owners of stolen phones enter the identification code into the databases. However, the mention of the validation feature itself is very helpful. Look at the reaction of the seller - if he refuses to check, it is better to refuse the purchase.
Step 5
Do not forget that sometimes you can buy a stolen thing not only from your hands, but also in small shops selling used mobile phones. Some shop owners turn a blind eye to the origin of the phone and do not ask unnecessary questions, and sometimes even cooperate with pickpockets. In this case, the acceptance of the phone for sale is carried out according to fictitious or someone else's passport data. When buying a used phone from a small store, take a sales receipt just in case.
