IMEI Safe is an online service for verifying mobile devices. Enter an IMEI or serial number and it returns what manufacturer and network records hold about that device: the model, whether it has been reported lost or stolen, whether it is locked to a carrier, whether Apple's activation lock is still tied to a previous owner, and what warranty remains.
It exists because a device's history is invisible in a photograph. Every year a large number of used phones change hands carrying a defect the buyer cannot see and the seller may not know about.
IMEI Safe is operated by TR Vertriebs GmbH, a company based in Horn-Bad Meinberg, Germany, that has traded used iPhones and mobile devices in the B2B wholesale market since 2011. The checks offered here are the same ones the company runs on its own incoming stock.
That is also the honest answer to why the service exists: the tooling was built for internal goods-in verification, and it turned out to be worth opening up.
Blacklist status across international networks, SIM and carrier lock, iCloud activation lock and Find My status, model and serial verification, warranty and purchase date, repair and replacement history, and Samsung's Knox warranty bit. Business customers can run the same checks in bulk or through a REST API.
Private buyers checking one device before a purchase, and dealers, repair shops and refurbishers verifying stock at goods-in. The free basic check needs no account; volume users work with check credit or the API.
We query several specialised data providers which in turn evaluate manufacturer and carrier records as well as GSMA datasets. What comes back is the status at the moment of the query — a device that is clean today can still be reported tomorrow.
The operator is a German company with a public commercial register entry and a German VAT ID. Every payment produces an invoice. Submitted IMEIs are passed to the queried provider for the lookup and are not sold on. Where a check cannot deliver a result, it is refunded rather than reported as empty.
A service of TR Vertriebs GmbH – your partner for professional IMEI verification.