bad esn question ??

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i got a friend with a verizon phone that he found it has been reported stolen .can you hook it up with metro or cricket ??? just wondering
 
:^/ I really don't think so. That's the whole point to reporting it as stolen; the ESN gets blacklisted and carriers aren't allowed to support it. This takes the incentive out of stealing phones.
 
They really don't reallly care whether is stolen, lost or has a balance with whatever carrier it was with. I honestly don't care if they r, only times you can't use them is when they been reported stolen in crickets network
 
cricket will lock an esn forever once it is reported lost/stolen. the only way to get it unlocked is at a corp store if you show id (and you are the account holder that reported it stolen. of course if there is an insurance claim against it, then even showing id won't get the esn un-blacklisted, cricket will attempt to recover devices that are blacklisted at their corporate owned stores.
 
everyone has said this: it does not matter if it was reported stolen on verizon or anyone else. as long as it wasn't stolen on cricket.
 
Az0465 asked:
:^/ Not if it doesn't belong to him. If a fellow walked into a police station with the Mona Lisa under his arm, he may be arrested for stealing it, or he may collect a reward for recovering it, but he won't be allowed to keep it.

It's the same with anything; if it's stolen, it belongs to whomever it was stolen from, not to whomever posseses it currently.
 
recover is the term that they use for taking to the back and not bringing it back out, then proceeding to tell the person the device was reported stolen and they will return it to the owner.
 
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