IMEI

International Mobile Equipment Identity

As similar all human have their unique fingerprint identity this can not be similar between us.In the same way every electronic device that is allowed to connect to the network also requires a unique identification.For this the concept of IMEI Number comes.This is a 15 digit number which is allocated to mobile devices.The number of SIM card slots means having the corresponding allocation of  IMEI number.

If you want to know your phone's IMEI Number just dile *#06#

SIM🔸

 Subscriber Identification Module

SIM is like a bridge which connect the user and ISP_Internet service provider

🙄ISP ???

Till you didn't known what is ISP and how the datapackets are transmitted through the network in a secured manner you should have to read these articles first.Here I am giving the links of these basic article first.

🎯 Encryption.                      Click here
🎯 Is your password safe.  Click here
🎯  Proxyserver.                    Click here

Whenever you buy a SIM card and insert it in your mobile phone's sim slot each time IMEI get registered with these SIM with there corresponding ISPs.

🙄🤔How IMEI Number help us👮???

Whenever our mobile get lost/stolen first thing we need to do is FIR {First information report}.In that whole scenario the major thing that demand by a police officer is IMEI of that lost/stolen phone.Now your work is over and the police station stat taking action on your complaint.

Behind the scenes of police station

The first thing which done after your complaint is that case gets transfered to cyber sell.The officer send your IMEI number to the ISP or service providers.Now your IMEI number gets on surveillance :
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Whenever anyone tries to use your phone and insert sim card then that IMEI number gets registered again with that user.
Now police hase 3 options to catch that user::
⚙️By taking that user's identification.Which has submitted by that user at the time of  purchasing a SIM card.

Here one question arises_

🤔What if the SIM card is not own. it is also stoled.???🤯🤔?????

Now you will think it's so complicated now.But it's not so.

In that scenario police takes the angle details of three nearest towers around the cell phone.After putting these angles detail into software the exact location can be measured easily.

This method is known as triangulation method.

But here is a fact now that  the authority of use of that particular software is only for police department.

Even the name of the software and the name of the manufacturer is secret🤫.

Hope you have learnt something interesting and new from this article in easiest way.

If so then do comment,and share it 📲📲 with your friends🤼 and👨‍👨‍👦‍👦 family members.

Thanks!
@Jeewan