Comment on Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones
alchemy88@lemmy.team 1 year agoEven if they’re blocked I think that only applies to certain countries too. So they likely just get sent abroad and used there!
Comment on Nearly two-fifths of robberies in London last year were for mobile phones
alchemy88@lemmy.team 1 year agoEven if they’re blocked I think that only applies to certain countries too. So they likely just get sent abroad and used there!
GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 1 year ago
My info on IMEI blacklisting is probably out of date, but it used to be that different regions operated their own lists (since phones were normally sold for a specific region).
That meant that stolen phones would often just get shipped abroad, even with a bar in place for the UK.