Mobile Phone Cloning
Cell phone cloning is copying the identity of
one mobile telephone to another mobile telephone.
Usually this is done for the purpose of
making fraudulent telephone calls. The bills for the calls go to the legitimate
subscriber. The cloner is also able to make effectively anonymous calls, which
attracts another group of interested users. Cloning is the process of taking the programmed information that is
stored in a legitimate mobile phone and illegally programming the identical
information into another mobile phone. The result is that the
"cloned" phone can make and receive calls and the charges for those
calls are billed to the legitimate subscriber. The service provider network
does not have a way to differentiate between the legitimate phone and the
"cloned" phone .
Cloning involved modifying or replacing the EPROM in the phone
with a new chip which would allow you to configure an ESN (Electronic serial
number) via software. You would also have to change the MIN (Mobile Identification
Number). When you had successfully changed the ESN/MIN pair, your phone was an
effective clone of the other phone. Cloning required access to
ESN and MIN pairs. ESN/MIN pairs were discovered in several ways:
- Sniffing the cellular
- Trashing cellular companies or cellular resellers
- Hacking cellular companies or cellular resellers
Cloning still works under the AMPS/NAMPS
system, but has fallen in popularity as older clone able phones are more
difficult to find and newer phones have not been successfully
reverse-engineered.
Cloning has been successfully demonstrated
under GSM, but the process is not easy and it currently remains in the realm of
serious hobbyists and researchers.
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