"Bob Eager" <rde42@spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:176uZD2KcidF-pn2-sx9uwH4dce5z@rikki.tavi.co.uk...
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:01:20 UTC, Oliver W
> <oliver@b10gw.deletespam.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> A few days ago a friend showed me an email he had received which quoted
>> a code that can be keyed into virtually any mobile phone to get it to
>> display the phone number of the SIM card in it. I can't remember the
>> code exactly, but it did work on my phone (Nokia 1100).
>>
>> The code was, IIRC:
>> one or both of # and *
>> followed by a 2 or 3 digit number containing a 6,
>> then one or both of # and *.
>>
>> Can somebody inform us what that code is?
>
> Not the actual phone number, but the number of the phone..(IMEI)...
>
> http://www.flatbatt.co.uk/Unlocking/...ret_codes.html

There are far more codes than that. Some can be quite malicious ;o)