HYDERABAD: The state police has arrested a gang of mobile cloners, a new type of criminal gang involved in duplicating legitimate mobile subscriber.
The gang arrested was involved in the cloning of mobile phones, latest crimes to hit mobile phone users. While the gang members made phone calls from the duplicated numbers, the legitimate subscriber paid the bill.
The gang sold at least 100 such cloned mobiles to the buyers and minted huge amount of money.
According to the Mahesh Bhagwat, DCP, Hyderabad, "Using software they erase the old data of the ESN and MIN number and feed in a new ESN and MIN number. This was their technique. So if there is one legitimate subscriber there may be thousands of clones of his mobile number."
The police further said that internet has made the cloning more easier,
with many free softwares available on the internet. All it needs to do so is to copy the Electronic Serial or ESN, and MIN or mobile identification number onto a handset to create its clone.
