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Successful clonning fraud?
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Posted by: amp3r

Hey.

I own a working Telit-X60 (Audiovox 8400).
Last night I saw that my friend owns an unused Telit-X110 (Audiovox 8615), so I thought maybe I could clone my phone's identities into the friend's.

After some Googling and experimenting around with various NAM/ESN/Cave changing programs that I've found on the internet, I decided I should give it try.

Turns out it worked. I've shut off my old phone, cloned the data (ESN/Cave/NAM/IMSI/etc) into the unused one, powered the new one on... everything works - in/out calls and text messages.

Bottom line, I've successfully cloned my own account to a different device.

1. Is it legal?
2. What happens if I power on them both at the same time?
3. Will this create fraud issues at the service provider?

Posted by: Black Cat

Cloning is illegal and a federal offense I believe. Wireless communication is governed by the FCC and they do not play nice.

If you turned on both phones at the same time, the network would detect them and they will be red flagged as a fraud possiblity. The carrier may flag your account, charger you with fraud, or even report you to the FCC.

CLONING IS A MAJOR OFFENSE!

The Commission (FCC) considers any knowing use of cellular telephone with an altered ESN to be a violation of the Communications Act (Section 301) and alteration of the ESN in a cellular telephone to be assisting in such violation. The Wireless Telephone Protection Act (Public Law 105-172) was signed into law on April 24, 1998, expanding the prior law to criminalize the use, possession, manufacture or sale of cloning hardware or software.
The cellular equipment manufacturing industry has deployed authentication systems that have proven to be a very effective countermeasure to cloning. Authentication supplements the use of the ESN and MIN with a changing encrypted code that can not be obtained by off-the-air monitoring.

Posted by: amp3r

I don't live in USA so I'm not concerened with the FCC,
and basically all I want is to 'upgrade' my phone.

Moreover, I wanted to see how secure my phone is. Which btw appears to be so insecure. A 15 year old boy with a help of a computer and a cable successfully proved a concept as opposed to GSM where the SIM is nearly impossible thing to copy.

Besides I didn't steal any services, I'm still paying for everything.