{"id":97285,"date":"2026-01-13T11:33:26","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=97285"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:33:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T06:33:26","slug":"police-warn-against-buying-unverified-second-hand-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/police-warn-against-buying-unverified-second-hand-phones\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn against buying unverified second-hand phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Police officials have warned people buying<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/apples-ios-18-update-cracks-down-on-faulty-used-iphones\/\"> second-hand mobile phones<\/a> that they may face legal action and investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to details, the trend of buying second-hand mobile phones from the market is increasing rapidly, however, this facility can sometimes pose serious problems for users.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, an investigation by the Lahore Police\u2019s Mobile Tracking Unit has revealed that over 35,000 stolen or snatched mobile phones have been recovered from Lahore in the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>Police officials said that a large number of these were mobile phones that were purchased by users without verification and legal verification, due to which many people later faced legal action and investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Police have warned the public that buying second-hand mobile phones from online platforms or unregistered dealers can prove to be dangerous and expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on this situation, Zeeshan Khalid, Senior Vice President of the All Pakistan Mobile Phones Association, said that consumers should verify the IMEI number while buying a mobile phone and ensure that they purchase from an authorized vendor to avoid any legal complications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Police officials have warned people buying second-hand mobile phones that they may face legal action and investigation. According to details, the trend of buying second-hand mobile phones from the market is increasing rapidly, however, this facility can sometimes pose serious problems for users. Recently, an investigation by the Lahore Police\u2019s Mobile Tracking Unit has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":24380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,8],"tags":[1658,33677],"class_list":["post-97285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-technology","tag-lahore-police","tag-second-hand-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97286,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97285\/revisions\/97286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}