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Scammed by deblocage-htc.com

Hello guys,
this is my first post on this forum and I hope it doesn't sound to agressive.
So, here goes:
I bought a HTC Touch Cruise that was locked on the RO Vodafone network. Before finding out about this great forum and all of you guys I ordered and paid, stupid me, ~30 euros for an unlock code from deblocage-htc.com
I sent them the correct imei, and the money via paypal and the next day i received my unlock code.
I inserted a sim card from the telecom company i work with and it asked for the unlock code, so i entered the code and... surprise: INVALID CODE.
I sent an email back to the site owners (that was 7 days ago) and asked them to help me solve my problem.
7 days have passed and still no answer, although I sent several other emails.
I filed a claim on paypal and the guy managed to send evidence that he is ok in only 2 MINUTES, but still doesn't find time to answer my emails.
This was the first time (and definitely the last one) I tried the easy way and I ended up with a "fat lip"
I managed to unlock my phone by miself today thanks to the nice utilities and the very explicit guide provided by Olinex (hope I remembered it right), so i promise i'll make a donation to you this week.
What I'm pissed about are not the money, but the fact that they didn't even bother to answer my emails.
PS.
My lawyer would love to know their real name and address, as I record each and every online purchase I make, and print screens with all the terms and conditions.
Hopefully the guys in the IT dept in my company will manage to provide me with the information I need.
I apologize again if this post doesn't belong here, but in a moment of stupidity (this was my first windows mobile phone and I didn't have any patience) i've been scammed for the first time in my life...
PS 2
Pardon my english, but I'm not native.

Did anyone else encounter the same problem?

We at XDA are sorry to hear that happen to you and pray that you get your funds back, but still this is not the place to discuss these issues. Hope you understand. I will keep this thread locked till someone can PM me if they have any information to share with you, then I'll open it again
Moreover within an hour, looks like no one else faced this problem
This is just to clean the forums clean so everyone can get the information that they seek regarding devices and ROMs and likes
Thank you

why is esn/meid related topics frowned upon?

ESN CHANGING IS ONLY ILLEGAL IF YOU ARE COMMITTING FRAUD..
I know a good many people would probably commit some sort of fraud..
But it is not Illegal if you own the phone and are not committing a fraud..
I state this because I have an Evo that was gotten in a trade from on of my GF friends and it was hers in her name and she had it shipped out t insuaron and when she got it back it did not work and after paying the full 100 for a repair and getting the phone back all screwed up.. she took it back into sprint and after countless hours on the phone they want her to repay the insurance fee to have a replacement sent out lol.. so she canceled her contract..
Now to keep it straight.. I am not asking how to fix the problem the phone is having as its against forum rules and ive seen that many times..
but i do need a lead as to how to fix it so since this forum doesn't accommodate this problem can some pm a site that does?? or if your in the Sacramento ca area and would be willing to help me pm..
well guys thanks.. p.s. I am just trying t get the ESN than came with the phone back on the phone.. after getting it back sprint is saying that the esn just isnt there.. now im sure i could figure it out but Ive been out of the game for a bit now.. And I did figure out metros web and mms stuff first and drop it here for every one to use for free.. and that was on a htc touch..

Never mind every one i have figured it out.. please close this thread or delete it so it does not take up space....
but can a mod or Admin tell me why repair a esn or meid is prohibited?

Not sure what to do......

So a person had left their phone at work(which is totally unreal that somebody would forget a $500+ phone) 8/16. So our policy is after 60 days and its not claimed then anybody can claim it. So as of 11/22 nobody claimed it and I ask to take it. The battery was obviously dead and there was no charger. I came home and checked the IMEI on Swappa and it came back clean. So that means the person who lost it didn't put in a lost claim for it correct?
I guess I could always put it up on Ebay or something.
I charged it when I got in, and it was locked with a Knock code, so I guess I can just wipe it. There was no memory card but a sim

Contact the carrier. They can contact the owner through the sim information

Greatness83 said:
So a person had left their phone at work(which is totally unreal that somebody would forget a $500+ phone) 8/16. So our policy is after 60 days and its not claimed then anybody can claim it. So as of 11/22 nobody claimed it and I ask to take it. The battery was obviously dead and there was no charger. I came home and checked the IMEI on Swappa and it came back clean. So that means the person who lost it didn't put in a lost claim for it correct?
I guess I could always put it up on Ebay or something.
I charged it when I got in, and it was locked with a Knock code, so I guess I can just wipe it. There was no memory card but a sim
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No you be a good person and call the carrier ! Smh
2SHAYNEZ

Agreed. Do the right thing. Contact the carrier.
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Greatness83 said:
So a person had left their phone at work(which is totally unreal that somebody would forget a $500+ phone) 8/16. So our policy is after 60 days and its not claimed then anybody can claim it. So as of 11/22 nobody claimed it and I ask to take it. The battery was obviously dead and there was no charger. I came home and checked the IMEI on Swappa and it came back clean. So that means the person who lost it didn't put in a lost claim for it correct?
I guess I could always put it up on Ebay or something.
I charged it when I got in, and it was locked with a Knock code, so I guess I can just wipe it. There was no memory card but a sim
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Wow you sound kind of sh**ty. You never thought to take it to the freaking carrier? You know d**n well they would know exactly whose phone it is. The person may not have known about having your IMEI blacklisted when you lose a phone. You were just trying to get a free phone. I hope you lose your phone one day and no one bothers to return it to your carrier. I apologize for the rudeness of this post, but you sir, are an a*shole.
P.S. Edited for language because people like you need to find a different site to troll

acparker18 said:
Wow you sound kind of sh**ty. You never thought to take it to the freaking carrier? You know d**n well they would know exactly whose phone it is. The person may not have known about having your IMEI blacklisted when you lose a phone. You were just trying to get a free phone. I hope you lose your phone one day and no one bothers to return it to your carrier. I apologize for the rudeness of this post, but you sir, are an a*shole.
P.S. Edited for language because people like you need to find a different site to troll
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Wow guy lol. You seem awful hurt right now. Ok for 1 I'm no troll. I been here long enough and active enough for that not to happen. 2. I'm on a totally different carrier and totally different phone, I don't need it and 3 even if I did lose my Note, I would've filed a claim with insurance and if I didnt have insurance I would've called the carrier months ago. keyword in that was MONTHS ago. You act like you never found anything before, and technically I didn't find it, we waited it out. So insult me all you want
Oh and fyi the right thing was done. I was able to get the phone number last nite and had it looked up and I retrieved their email and emailed them .
Im done explaining myself to you, which really I shouldn't have anyway
Mods please close thread. All handled now

Greatness83 said:
Wow guy lol. You seem awful hurt right now. Ok for 1 I'm no troll. I been here long enough and active enough for that not to happen. 2. I'm on a totally different carrier and totally different phone, I don't need it and 3 even if I did lose my Note, I would've filed a claim with insurance and if I didnt have insurance I would've called the carrier months ago. keyword in that was MONTHS ago. You act like you never found anything before, and technically I didn't find it, we waited it out. So insult me all you want
Oh and fyi the right thing was done. I was able to get the phone number last nite and had it looked up and I retrieved their email and emailed them .
Im done explaining myself to you, which really I shouldn't have anyway
Mods please close thread. All handled now
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Good job man . Glad you did the right thing. I bet the owner will be very happy ! Great ! Happy thanksgiving !
2SHAYNEZ

Greatness83 said:
Wow guy lol. You seem awful hurt right now. Ok for 1 I'm no troll. I been here long enough and active enough for that not to happen. 2. I'm on a totally different carrier and totally different phone, I don't need it and 3 even if I did lose my Note, I would've filed a claim with insurance and if I didnt have insurance I would've called the carrier months ago. keyword in that was MONTHS ago. You act like you never found anything before, and technically I didn't find it, we waited it out. So insult me all you want
Oh and fyi the right thing was done. I was able to get the phone number last nite and had it looked up and I retrieved their email and emailed them .
Im done explaining myself to you, which really I shouldn't have anyway
Mods please close thread. All handled now
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Just don't like hearing about someone taking advantage of a situation when they know better. Also, according to your post to thanks ratio, you don't seem too helpful, so I shouldn't have expected different. Don't post about you trying to get a free phone from someone on a site that is meant to help people with their devices. Sorry for the rudeness, I am a crude individual, but I'm sure no one would want this to happen to them. And just because someone may not have the common sense to report the phone lost or stolen does not mean they deserve to have it taken. I agree though, the mods should close this thread as the right decision was made in the end, and for that, I commend you.

I misplaced my nexus 5 some months ago and I blacklisted it with my carrier. To this day I haven't received any information to where it is. I still hope somebody "does the right thing" and returns it to att instead of keeping it.
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bad imei

i recently got a 64gb s6 from a friend. i popped my sim card in and its working great. however, the phone was reported lost and the imei now says blacklisted on Verizon. Im pretty sure that once i take my sim out of the phone, it will never work on the Verizon netork again. my question is, i usually at night reboot my phone. if i turn this phone off, will it stop working??

mcnu said:
i recently got a 64gb s6 from a friend. i popped my sim card in and its working great. however, the phone was reported lost and the imei now says blacklisted on Verizon. Im pretty sure that once i take my sim out of the phone, it will never work on the Verizon netork again. my question is, i usually at night reboot my phone. if i turn this phone off, will it stop working??
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I don't believe so since you already have an active sim. Yet I've never used a black listed device so I'm not positive
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mcnu said:
i recently got a 64gb s6 from a friend. i popped my sim card in and its working great. however, the phone was reported lost and the imei now says blacklisted on Verizon. Im pretty sure that once i take my sim out of the phone, it will never work on the Verizon netork again. my question is, i usually at night reboot my phone. if i turn this phone off, will it stop working??
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Did you buy this phone from your friend? If so, did you give him a swift kick to the nut sack?

i rebooted the phone and its still good.

mcnu said:
i rebooted the phone and its still good.
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Awesome your stolen phone is still working for you...WE SO HAPPY!!!

It's not stolen, it was reported lost by the owner that I received it from. I don't know why he did this, but that's what happened

mcnu said:
i recently got a 64gb s6 from a friend.
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mcnu said:
It's not stolen, it was reported lost by the owner that I received it from. I don't know why he did this, but that's what happened
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So he committed Fraud, reported it stolen and you got it... which makes it a STOLEN phone.
Why don't you get him to take it back and get a legit phone?

mcnu said:
It's not stolen, it was reported lost by the owner that I received it from. I don't know why he did this, but that's what happened
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So it was stolen from the carrier then. So much better. I hope a mod bans you. People like you drive the costs up for everyone else.

mcnu said:
i recently got a 64gb s6 from a friend. i popped my sim card in and its working great. however, the phone was reported lost and the imei now says blacklisted on Verizon. Im pretty sure that once i take my sim out of the phone, it will never work on the Verizon netork again. my question is, i usually at night reboot my phone. if i turn this phone off, will it stop working??
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The phone itself will continue to work but will NEVER again, EVER work on ANY providers network... It's garbage. IMEI blacklist is worldwide, cannot be removed from the list once it's added but the phone could still be used as a WiFi PDA. It's rare for a phone to be IMEI blacklisted by a provider unless it's specifically requested because if you find the phone, even if you own it and reported it stolen, it cannot be un-blacklisted.
P.S. Your buddy screwed you! Go kick his ass, if it's been stolen from the provider and you use the WiFi, the provider will find it, and the popo will come to get it, and you...possession is 9/10's of the law remember
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One more thing, your buddy probably reported it lost for insurance, and the insurer always blacklists a lost phone before they issue a new phone under the policy.
The lesson here: buy your phone from a provider or manufacturer legit, or risk losing your money and possibly your freedom for a bit cuz you saved a couple hundred bucks buying from a booster.
Sent from my D6503

XDA Home of the off topic smart a** remarks site! This guy has a legitimate question an only @hopeserquiem has the repect to reply without giving useless remarks!! @twiz0r @brholt6 an @krelvinaz being senior members XDA an members expect better from you.. Now if the Mods should ban anything it should be you all for making XDA a place where people hate to ask for help!!
So let me apologize @mcnu on the behalf of XDA an say we welcome your question an we're glad your using XDA as a source of knowledge.. I know your not the only one that has bought a phone only to find that it has been blacklist an I do know you can have the phone removed from the blacklist but it is not something that can be done over night and you will need the person that had it blacklisted to request it to me lifted.. Now if for some reason he had it blacklisted to file a insurance claim, I'm afraid you will be out of the money you paid for the device.. So my advice is to contact the person that reported lost and ask him if he filed a claim an if he didn't ask if he wouldn't mind to request it to be lifted on the grounds of the phone has been found....
I hope this help and good luck.

Satan_Neil said:
XDA Home of the off topic smart a** remarks site! This guy has a legitimate question an only @hopeserquiem has the repect to reply without giving useless remarks!! @twiz0r @brholt6 an @krelvinaz being senior members XDA an members expect better from you.. Now if the Mods should ban anything it should be you all for making XDA a place where people hate to ask for help!!
So let me apologize @mcnu on the behalf of XDA an say we welcome your question an we're glad your using XDA as a source of knowledge.. I know your not the only one that has bought a phone only to find that it has been blacklist an I do know you can have the phone removed from the blacklist but it is not something that can be done over night and you will need the person that had it blacklisted to request it to me lifted.. Now if for some reason he had it blacklisted to file a insurance claim, I'm afraid you will be out of the money you paid for the device.. So my advice is to contact the person that reported lost and ask him if he filed a claim an if he didn't ask if he wouldn't mind to request it to be lifted on the grounds of the phone has been found....
I hope this help and good luck.
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Speaking of useless posts, you're only 9 months late. Surely he's found a solution by now. Anyways, if my friend sold me a blacklisted phone, I'd sure punch him in the nuts. You've heard of a joke, right? That's all my post was. Get off your soapbox and move on.

Seriously, you are picking up a post from JUNE of LAST YEAR where I posted the following:
So he committed Fraud, reported it stolen and you got it... which makes it a STOLEN phone.
Why don't you get him to take it back and get a legit phone?
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I absolutely stand by that statement.
The poster said as such...
mcnu said:
It's not stolen, it was reported lost by the owner that I received it from. I don't know why he did this, but that's what happened
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If the seller reported it as lost/stolen then he did commit FRAUD. There is NO other way to state it.
Why don't you concentrate on a current topic and help someone rather than trolling in old threads where the conversation was to the point and accurate based on the OP's posting's.

Bought a Samsung Galaxy S6.....Now it's locked by RAC! Please help a NOOBIE out?

Hello Everyone, This is my first post here on XDA and I'm hoping you folks can help me out. I bought this S6 from a guy on Craigslist. When I got it everything was fine. I put my sim in a tested it be sure all was well. So I pull my sim out and put it away for a few days to be a birthday gift to my son. So he opens it up, puts in his sim card and goes through the setup. As soon as he was done we get this popup that the phone is locked by Rent-A-Center. Well crap, now what do I do? I bought this in good faith, paid hard-earned money for it, and now it's locked. Of course the seller is no where to be found. And there's not a Rent-A-Center within a hundred miles of me so it's UN-telling where it came from.
I did some research and ran across this thread here. I found what I thought was the latest firmware and flashed it to the phone. But I got no love as it is still locked. I also found a thread on rooting the S6 and followed that but it didn't work either. Now in no way am I a phone guru. My experience so far has been rooting my S5 by searching a thread, downloading what was linked in that thread, and following the step-by-step directions in that thread. With that said could someone help me out with this? I know it's asking a lot to post step-by-step directions and links but that would really help me out.
I should probably add that I can't get into this phone in anyway. After resetting the phone to factory and wiping the cache it then goes to setup. Immediately after setup it locks with the RAC popup and you can not go any further. I can't get to anything such as IMEI, build number, etc.
So with that said I would really appreciate any help you folks can give. I'm stuck at this point.

You're not going to bypass anything. The person you bought the phone from either stole it from Rent A Center, was delinquent on payments, or claimed that it was lost or stolen and the RAC remotely bricked the phone. Just like how people with iPhones can turn lost or stolen phones into permanent bricks regardless of what people try to do, it's the same for Android.
Your best bet is to try and contact RAC somehow and see if they're willing to provide the necessary information to bypass the lock. Otherwise, you're out of money and a phone.

Tacoo said:
You're not going to bypass anything. The person you bought the phone from either stole it from Rent A Center, was delinquent on payments, or claimed that it was lost or stolen and the RAC remotely bricked the phone. Just like how people with iPhones can turn lost or stolen phones into permanent bricks regardless of what people try to do, it's the same for Android.
Your best bet is to try and contact RAC somehow and see if they're willing to provide the necessary information to bypass the lock. Otherwise, you're out of money and a phone.
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I appreciate your replying to my post. But none of this is a known fact. You are making an assumption. And while it could be true neither you nor I know that it is true. And if it is true then that is on the seller, not on me. What is a known fact (at least by me) is that I have a phone that I bought in good faith. It is locked and I need help.
I have found many posts and videos on the internet of S5's and other phones being unlocked. I found a post here on XDA that the author stated he had experience with this on an S6 that I linked above in my original post. I tried what he said but it did not work for me. That could be because I used the wrong files or just from my inexperience. I did send that poster a message but have not heard back from him.
So with all that said I'm still in the same position. I need help from the folks here on XDA. Anybody got any ideas? Thank you all.

medic265 said:
I appreciate your replying to my post. But none of this is a known fact. You are making an assumption. And while it could be true neither you nor I know that it is true. And if it is true then that is on the seller, not on me. What is a known fact (at least by me) is that I have a phone that I bought in good faith. It is locked and I need help.
I have found many posts and videos on the internet of S5's and other phones being unlocked. I found a post here on XDA that the author stated he had experience with this on an S6 that I linked above in my original post. I tried what he said but it did not work for me. That could be because I used the wrong files or just from my inexperience. I did send that poster a message but have not heard back from him.
So with all that said I'm still in the same position. I need help from the folks here on XDA. Anybody got any ideas? Thank you all.
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My friend, you have to believe what @Tacoo is saying...with s6, you cannot bypass the RAC. Talking about the s5, you can only bypass it when it has kitkat and s6 is far different from s5 in terms android version and such bugs has being fixed...the only option u have now is to contact the person you bought the phone from to help you with the RAC or return the phone and get your money back. There is no way to bypass RAC in S6

success123 said:
My friend, you have to believe what @Tacoo is saying...with s6, you cannot bypass the RAC. Talking about the s5, you can only bypass it when it has kitkat and s6 is far different from s5 in terms android version and such bugs has being fixed...the only option u have now is to contact the person you bought the phone from to help you with the RAC or return the phone and get your money back. There is no way to bypass RAC in S6
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Exactly. Android on Lollipop and Marshmallow is like what Apple did with iOS. On iOS, if you put the lockdown on your phone and it gets stolen, even if someone wipes it entirely, the phone is useless without the original owner putting in their Apple ID. Android is the same way now, along with Samsung having their own account layer on top of that.
You can restore and wipe the phone, but chances are that you're not going to bypass this without contacting RAC.