"Road_HogŪ" <No Spam> wrote in message
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> "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.
Yes.
> 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.
Unfortunately, in Law I think you'll find that there is little difference.
I certainly wouldn't take the risk to find out, would you?
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