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Can you find if a serial number is real?

I interested to buy MacBook Air but need to check if this serial number is real. CO****5N7


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Posted on May 19, 2022 7:06 AM

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Posted on May 20, 2022 5:00 PM

While the moderators have sanitized the serial number, the serial number is incorrect because the second character is the letter "O", when in fact it should be the number "zero" since Apple does not use the letter "O" in their product serial numbers because it is too hard to distinguish between them. You also need to be careful distinguishing between other letters & numbers such as "B" & "8", or "S" & "5", or a lower case "L" & the number "1", there may be more.

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May 20, 2022 5:00 PM in response to gillybuen22

While the moderators have sanitized the serial number, the serial number is incorrect because the second character is the letter "O", when in fact it should be the number "zero" since Apple does not use the letter "O" in their product serial numbers because it is too hard to distinguish between them. You also need to be careful distinguishing between other letters & numbers such as "B" & "8", or "S" & "5", or a lower case "L" & the number "1", there may be more.

Can you find if a serial number is real?

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