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Sprint/T-Mobile blacklisted my verizon phone
I bought a new iphone X from verizon.com in 2018. It's worked fine with no issues. This past weekend, I tried to trade-in the phone to verizon and found there was a "lost or stolen" flag on my IMEI...
Sorry to say some things don’t add up for me.
If you bought the phone through Cellfix after selling your phone to them the device sold to you by them may have been already reported stolen. Errors are kicking back when they try and fix it. You may have been sold a phone used in an insurance fraud.
As for the OP Sprint didn’t become part of T-Mobile until last year. I’d be surprised if T-Mobile even have Sprint IMEIs in their database as a whole just yet. From what I remember don’t quote me. Without the IMEI being in their database they can’t block regionally IMEI’s. They can only do it on their network. For example you can buy an unlocked device from Japan and use it. If it gets blocked you can use it on another carrier. Now if it’s in the system then it can be regionally locked as Apple has a database for stolen devices which checks.
Sorry no CSR is going to believe someone on the phone from other carriers. Anyone could act like they work for XYZ not in person.
