How to know if iPhone is blocked (not locked)?
I read people saying their phone is blocked (they bought it off of ebay) and therefore they can't use it. In other posts, I see people saying that att will not check for you if your IEMI is blocked. So how did these people know it was blocked?
They would find out when they tried to activate the phone, only to be told by their carrier that the ESN (IMEI) has been blocked (also known as blacklisted).
You can call the carrier in question, and they should be able to tell you if the ESN is clean or not. The problem is that people can sell their phones to someone else, then report the phone they sold as stolen, or just stop paying on their contract, both of which will end up with the stolen phone being blacklisted.
There are checkers for US and UK iPhones that cost a few dollars on sites like iPhoneUnlockedCheap.com. The report will tell you if the IMEI is clean or blocked
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