How To Detect A Fake Blackberry Phone

Chris

How To Detect A Fake Blackberry Phone

With the BlackBerry craze still very much alive especially here in Nigeria, it’s quite easy to fall for con sales men and spend your hard earned cash on unauthentic blackberry phones.

If you’re serious about getting a new blackberry phone, you’re greatly advised to only buy from Authentic Authorized BlackBerry Dealers.

From my understanding, fake phones are easily detectable just by observing the packaging and body work of the mobile phone. Like we have NOKLA instead of NOKIA. lol. Photocopy packaging is also a dead giveaway.

Now using the unique 17 or 15 digit International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) number of the mobile device, one can easily tell if it’s of a bad quality or good quality.

NOTE: I got this tutorial from a friend via BlackBerry Messenger so I can’t really say how authentic it is but feels good to know that my BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 is a high quality limited edition made in Canada. By the way, I bought it from Slot Systems in Lagos when it was just N38,000 ($244). Price has risen to N41,000 ($263) now probably due to massive demand as it’s the cheapest 3G enabled BlackBerry in the country.

How To Detect Poor Quality Blackberry Phones
First of all dial *#06# to get a display of 15 digits IMEI number of your BlackBerry phone’s display. Example: 316725.10.4690216. The 7th and 8th numbers in between the dots are important numbers here and represent the FAC of the device.

The Final Assembly Code (FAC) is a manufacturer-specific code indicating where the various parts of the device was assembled. From what I understand, countries are given this code based on the quality standards available.

Bad quality phones could be hazardous to your health and as such checking a mobile device’s IMEI number is essential before buying.

Below are the FAC digits for some countries.

IMEI DIGITS	COUNTRY	QUALITY
01 or 10	Finland	Very Good
02 or 20	China	Low
08 or 80	Germany	Fair
05 or 50	Brazil or USA	Fair
03	France or Canada	Best
04	Canada	Best Limited Edition
00	Original Factory	Best
13	Azerbaijan	Very Bad

MY OWN BLACKBERRY MIDDLE CODE IS .05. AND ITS NOT INCLUDED ON YOUR LIST, SO I WANNA KNOW THE COUNTRY THAT PRODUCED IT OR IS IT FAKE?

Chris

05 or 50 is for Brazil or USA, and it's quality is Fair.
Thanks, I will include it to the list.

Operakid

Good research chris.i'll check it out

Operakid

Mine is 01

yusuf98

gud job dat nice

richadex

Mine is 04

Netsela

Wow! indeed this is one gud method for detecting a fake 1

Chris

Thanks. I believe this would help people when purchasing bb phones

omooba1

Mine is 00

PRINCESSBECKY

In addition to ur post chris anoder way to differentiate original and fake bb phones is that fake ones uses 2 sims while original do use 1 sim.
2.original bb phones do have bbm while fake ones dont have.

firstlady

please chris is there any other way i can know is a blackberry phone is fake?

Chubi

Virus form your pc

Chubi

The original have 1 sim y the feke have 2 sim

brayo

Thanks

Wesney snap

Thanks a lot chris dis cud easily help me in purchasing bb phones

Thanks a lot to gave a chance to check it out the fake and quality of BB...
My BB quality is "Fair" I am happy

Thanks again Chris!!!

How To Detect A Fake Blackberry Phone

How To Detect A Fake Blackberry Phone

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