How to Identify if Your Phone Is an Original or Fake (Clone)

How to Identify if Your Phone Is an Original or Fake (Clone). Buying a look-a-like cheap branded phones are risk-prone. Although the price difference attracts many people, clone or counterfeit mobiles often are made of lesser quality components.

Mobile Markets are filled with Fake Phones and they selling them as Original even with Branded tags beside it the replica phones are present in the market that looks similar to the original phone, to check whether your phone is original or fake there are two ways of checking it. These methods will help you a lot while buying a used cell phone.

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The influx of clone (fake) phones in Nigeria is becoming alarming. If you are not the techy type or not very familiar with the brand you are about to purchase you can easily be fooled into buying a clone that looks exactly like the original. Nokia, Blackberry and most especially Samsung clones are really hard to detect and sometimes foreign carriers logos like AT&T Wireless, Sprint, Verizon and others can be on the phone just to trick people that they are getting a genuine foreign network tied phone.

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Steps on how to detect fake phones

1. If you know someone that has bought the original phone you are about to purchase kindly go through the phone to know how it is supposed to function and look as the clones will definitely miss out some little features.

2. Check the IMEI number on the firmware of the device by dialing *#06#

3. Take out the battery of the phone and look out for the exact same IMEI number displayed after dialing the code above. If the numbers match then you are one step away from confirmation

4. Lastly, go to www.imei.info type in the IMEI number you got above and click on “Check”. This would reveal the Name, Model and picture of the phone.

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