Verify IMEI Online

Many a Times, we have asked ourselves this question: Is my IMEI/Phone Authentic?????

The reason this question pops up is Chinese Manufacturers are flooding the World Market with cheap imitation phones. (I went to a dubious shop & came across a Nokia 6300: Exact Body, But OS, completely different!!!!)

All mobile phones are assigned a unique 15 digit IMEI code (International Mobile Equipment Identity) upon production. Below you can check all known information regarding manufacturer, model type, and country of approval of a handset.

IMEI number can be found on most of the mobile handsets and in India it is prohibited the usage of mobile phones without a valid IMEI number.

IMEI can be retrieved in two ways :
1) type *#06#

2) check compliance plate under the battery.

How to verify the validity of IMEI number

This put me to thinking, If I buy a phone, how do I verify my IMEI is unique. It is very likely, that a Chinese Vendor might have manufactured the phone & inserted some Nokia model's IMEI.

Extensive Online Search yielded the Following Site:

Code:

http://www.numberingplans.com/?page=analysis&sub=imeinr