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== Checking an ESN number ==Call the provider directly and ask. The company should be able to tell if a certain phone’s ESN has gone bad, and even why it was blacklisted.There have been reports of buyers contacting Verizon and pleading with them to have the phone cleared. "I bought this phone used and the seller told me it was clean but it isn't and now I can't get a refund because the seller skipped town." Conclusion, this is unlikely to work, but worth a few minutes of your time if you are on the receiving end of this bad deal.