"Richard Colton" <webmaster@NILSPAMuselessinfo.org.uk> wrote in message
news:LFqSh.8226$NK2.7639@text.news.blueyonder.co.u k...
> Erm... no.
>
> I think you'll find that no legitimate independent phone shop will touch
> the IMEI given that the penalties for doing so are up to five years in
> clink plus a potentially unlimted fine.

Really, what for taking a damaged phone and rewriting the same IMEI number
to it, to repair it.

Now if it was a blocked/barred phone and you were trying to write an IMEI
number from a good phone to a barred/blocked phone then that is different.
But to repair a phone by re-writing its own original IMEI number is not the
same.