I noticed some threads about lost or stolen Fairphones I wonder if we should try to have a community wiki page on the lost and stolen phones, with IMEIs and $discoursehandle only - so if a lost or stolen phone pops up somewhere (e.g., on eBay), the previous owner could be notified via private messa…

In my modest opinion I think it is useless. Admitting that, by big chance, someone realize that his phone is on Ebay, then what? I don’t know how he/she can have it back anyway…

Well, in the order page you can see your serial number which could be useful to recover the IMEIs of the phone so if you ask the seller the IMEIs numbers maybe you can know if it’s a stolen phone.

I don’t think a seller of a stolen phone will voluntarily tell you the IMEI, but we could ask everybody on the forum who got his phone second hand to check the list of IMEIs of stolen phones. Then the buyer can report the seller to the authorities. I say let’s try, worst case we have an idle wiki p…

with the relatively limited amount of fairphones around, I think that is a good idea.

As a sad former owner of a lost (stolen?) FairPhone, I don’t think it will be of much help, but if only one person can recover its FairPhone, it would be worth it. So let’s try!

Nice, since you are actually one of the few people who this would concern. :blush: Why don’t you make a start and post the phone’s data in a new topic? (You can “reply as linked topic” from here when you hover over a post…)

Hey folks, Fairphone’s customer support team collects a list of reported stolen phones IMEI numbers. That’s why we ask people to check with us when they buy a secondhand phone. @anon48893843 , do you have more info on that?

That seems to me a good idea. In any case, that is worth trying, we risk nothing! Mine was lost (stolen?) Its number is 8718819378006 Thank you for all which will be made in this direction… Mimi

Please contact support and tell them your IMEI number.

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