Cell phone cloning? know anything about it?

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Dustin_m

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I just had a random call to my cell a while ago.
me: hello?
guy: is this anthony?
me: no
guy: oh, well i got this # from a "clone list"
me: ok? and... whats that?
guy: I'm wondering if this number is still available to be cloned
me: i don't know wtf you are talking about.
guy: ok, must have the wrong #
me: ok

I went back in the office and googled cell phone cloning, and found out that it's possible to get someones sim info and use the info to place calls on the account.

has anyone ever heard of this or know anyting about it? I'm just wondering how likely it is that this douchbag might try to use my account.

I called AT&T and they noted my account, and i gave them the # the guy called from. They traced it to Cox Communications, so I am considering placing a complaint w/ them.
 
I'd force at&t to give you a new sim.

Or just forget about it, because he probably doens't have the means or knowledge to clone your sim. (it's pretty close to impossible without having the actual sim card to 'clone')
 
The carrier should have a system to catch that sort of thing. Like if you make two call within minutes of each other from quite a distance they will see that it was not physically possible. You could always check your bill just in case.
 
I'd force at&t to give you a new sim.

Or just forget about it, because he probably doens't have the means or knowledge to clone your sim. (it's pretty close to impossible without having the actual sim card to 'clone')
yea one of the sites i found from google was a .edu and these professors were saying that at the time they were writing the article it was pretty much impossible to clone "over the air" but probably could be done.

I'm not too worried, AT&T put notes in my account of the incident, so if anything comes up on the bill, i shouldn't have a hard time disputing it.

It did kind of frustrate me though, so i put up a few free shit ads on craigslist and directed all the people to that phone number, lol.
 
I have done a little research on the topic and it seems to be that it is kind of a pain in the ass. Back in the day it was a whole lot easier. A great deal of information about the phone would be transmitted while on a call so some folks created scanners to cherry pick the information and they would burn their own "sim" cards more or less. That is my very loose and basic understanding of the practice.
 
I have done a little research on the topic and it seems to be that it is kind of a pain in the ass. Back in the day it was a whole lot easier. A great deal of information about the phone would be transmitted while on a call so some folks created scanners to cherry pick the information and they would burn their own "sim" cards more or less. That is my very loose and basic understanding of the practice.

Basically two things are/were needed for a proper clone "back in the day"... the NAM and ESN. The NAM is your phone number. Simple enough. The ESN is the serial number of the phone, similar to a network card's MAC address. Usually these were captured listening to the towers and then burned to an EPROM which was swapped into the phone. Motorola bagphones were excellent for this. Listening to the towers was rather easy... throwing a phone into testmode and turning on the speaker would usually let you listen to a nice stream of data. The phones were put into testmode a number of ways, most usually involving crossing certain "unused" pins on the phone's plug... whereas newer phones (StarTAC) simply required you to dial FCN 00**TESTMODE STO and that would give you the 'U5' prompt. Motorola caught on QUICK and disabled the speaker and mic controls for all but the tower channels on the little clamshell wonders. Testmode also allowed programming and "adjustments" to the phone.

















Not that I know how this has done or ever done it before :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:
 
Basically two things are/were needed for a proper clone "back in the day"... the NAM and ESN. The NAM is your phone number. Simple enough. The ESN is the serial number of the phone, similar to a network card's MAC address. Usually these were captured listening to the towers and then burned to an EPROM which was swapped into the phone. Motorola bagphones were excellent for this. Listening to the towers was rather easy... throwing a phone into testmode and turning on the speaker would usually let you listen to a nice stream of data. The phones were put into testmode a number of ways, most usually involving crossing certain "unused" pins on the phone's plug... whereas newer phones (StarTAC) simply required you to dial FCN 00**TESTMODE STO and that would give you the 'U5' prompt. Motorola caught on QUICK and disabled the speaker and mic controls for all but the tower channels on the little clamshell wonders. Testmode also allowed programming and "adjustments" to the phone.

















Not that I know how this has done or ever done it before :ph34r::ph34r::ph34r:

Soo... It was YOU!

:p
 
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