Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud

From	cl@isbd.net
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud
Date	2015-07-26 12:09 +0100
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Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> wrote:
> Anonymous wrote:
> 
> > If IMEI alteration were fraud (which is already illegal), there would
> > be no need to legislate an explicit prohibition on it.
> 
> You don't live in the UK do you? Our governments like needless laws ...
> 
> They make smoking illegal, then make it illegal to fail to display signs 
> saying that smoking is illegal, though it's not illegal to fail to 
> display a sign saying murder is illegal.
> 
> They (will) introduce laws making it illegal for the government to 
> change tax rates, when everyone knows that governments can abolish the 
> law any time they want to change tax rates.
> 
> Anyhow, it's criminal to alter IMEIs here.
> 
What happens if I go to France (or anywhere else that it's legal) and
change it there and then come back?

... and what about a tablet (like the one I bought a couple of years
ago) that had no IMEI numbers for its two SIM cards?

It's one of these UK laws that is totally unenforceable nonsense.

-- 
Chris Green
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Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud cl@isbd.net - 2015-07-26 12:09 +0100
  Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2015-08-03 23:35 -0400
    Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud cl@isbd.net - 2015-08-04 14:26 +0100
      Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-08-04 18:11 +0000

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