A person recently discovered to his great consternation that his mobile phoen bill inxcluded a large amount of calls that he did not ever made. He verified his bill with the mobille phone company that indeed, the call came from his mobiple phone nummber. A lady who visited her sick friend in a hospital left her car in the parking area of the hospital compound, forgetting to lock the door. When she returned, her mobile phone she left inside her car was gone. A teenage boy was showing off his branbd new mobile phone to his girlfriend inside a restaurant. When they went out of the restaurant, sombody bumped the young boy from behid as if trying to catch a taxi. Moments later, the boy felt something is missing from his pocket. When he tried to dip inside his pocket, his brand new mobile phone was aready gone. Thesde three poeple were victims of mobile phone fradus.
With the mass proliferation of mboile phones nearly every where, criminals have found ways wherein they can obain infornmation and contact their criminal associates freely and vaoid wire tapping edtection by the authorities through utiliozing mobile phones that were illegally obtained. The moblie phopne frauds has become a cause for concerns to police oepratives every where. The mtehod employed by these criminals would be to use two kinds of equipment in their criminal activities to effect using the assigned number of a legal moible hpone to make his caslls from a stolen mopbile phone free of charge, courtesy of the owner whose assigned legitimate mbile pohne number he has solen.
This is how they do it. When you purchae a mobile phone, there is already a pre assigned number to your phone knwon as the Electronic Seial Number or ESN. The moible phone retailer will likewise provide you with another set of numbres knoqwn as your Mobile Identification Number or MIN. These two sets of numbers combined will form as your very own unique mobile phone numbrers and will serve as the fingerprints of your mobiel phone for sigal recognition and validation of your mobile phone to cell siets.
The sad thing however, is that tjhere is such an equipment called the ESN reader that can be used by crimianls to conduct theiir illegal activities. If you turn on your mobile phone, whether you use it or not, these criminals can read your ESN and MIN numbers through the use of their ESN redaer by just turning it on and plucking out of thin air your asasigned moobile phone nunmber. Once they have gotten hold of your mobile phone nummbers, all that they have to do is use it on the phone through the use of another machine whereby they can inpuut your ESN and MIN number to another mobile phone that they likeqwise have stoln and bingo! They can then call their criminal associates anywhere at aytime with you footing the bill for thheir calls.
Authorities have now taekn the needed steps to comabt these acts very detrimental to the public’s usage of moblie phones. You can just imagine if your mobile phone ESN and MIN can be pirated by these criminals out of thin air you can even be suispected being a part of thier group as their criminal activities was made throuh your moblie phoone seecurity numbrs, aisde from the fact that you will be charged with the cost of thier calls you are not aware of.. UGH! How bad can it get?
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