I saw a big discussion in a forum, I was not able to comment there. So I write about this topic here.
Unless the other party gets a cloned mobile number of yours, they cannot use your mobile number for any kind of financial scamming activities like using your credit card, or debit card or whatever. Let me explain to you, why someone sitting next to you is more dangerous in this regard than someone like me who sit thousand of kilometers away.
Just to get a technical knowledge, let me explain, how a cloning takes place - usually in two stages. Stage 1. First, the crooks use an electronic scanner to detect the electronic identity number of the SIM card in a nearby phone. There are a variety of different kinds of scanners. Scanners are relatively expensive and relatively difficult to get, but they aren’t impossible to get. Today, because most phones have significantly enhanced security against cloning operations, a phone cloner is much more likely to try to get physical access to the SIM card. With physical access to the card, cloning is relatively easy to accomplish.
Stage 2. Once the cloner has the information (usually consisting of the electronic serial number of the SIM card, and the authentication key for that card), they will use a SIM writer to make a duplicate SIM. Because SIM writers are legitimate tools with many legal uses, they are easy and inexpensive to acquire and anyone with $10 or $15 to spare can get one via Ebay without even trying. The cloner can then put the duplicated SIM card in another phone, and use that phone to make calls and connections under the original phone owner’s account.
But there is another things to worry than your sim being cloned and used to scam you financially by accessing your credit cards and bank accounts.
It being, someone who has a screwed up mind, can try to harass us in various ways like sending continuous unsolicited messages, even when we tell them, we are not interested in them. Or worst case, post our number in public whereby it is listed as some titillating service provider that every tom, dick and harry will keep on sending texts to us, without knowing who we are in person actually and it will mount to a huge harassment. If the number was with us for quite long time, it could be very strenuous to handle this.
But keep your composure, calmly explain that you are not what they believe is, and MAKE SURE YOU ASK, WHERE THEY FOUND THIS NUMBER.
If it is a physical location, ask that person himself, if he / she can help to remove it from there ( anyone who calls need not be creep himself / herself , most will be normal people, just looking for some excitement or whatever anonymously. ). I am sure, within 4 attempts, you will get someone willing to help. You can also mention that if they don't help, you will be forced to give a police complaint along with these persons number, which will inconvenience him / her also.
If it is website, immediately contact the administrator, using Contact us / Report Abuse ,etc to get your number removed from there.
But I would like to advice that it is good to have a different social media number than from the regular number that we use, as general practice.
All my friends and relatives often approach me with all sorts of problems and this is the advice I give on this topic. I hope it will be useful to get a perspective of how things are.
RSP
I saw a big discussion in a forum, I was not able to comment there. So I write about this topic here.
Unless the other party gets a cloned mobile number of yours, they cannot use your mobile number for any kind of financial scamming activities like using your credit card, or debit card or whatever. Let me explain to you, why someone sitting next to you is more dangerous in this regard than someone like me who sit thousand of kilometers away.
Just to get a technical knowledge, let me explain, how a cloning takes place - usually in two stages.
Stage 1. First, the crooks use an electronic scanner to detect the electronic identity number of the SIM card in a nearby phone. There are a variety of different kinds of scanners. Scanners are relatively expensive and relatively difficult to get, but they aren’t impossible to get. Today, because most phones have significantly enhanced security against cloning operations, a phone cloner is much more likely to try to get physical access to the SIM card. With physical access to the card, cloning is relatively easy to accomplish.
Stage 2. Once the cloner has the information (usually consisting of the electronic serial number of the SIM card, and the authentication key for that card), they will use a SIM writer to make a duplicate SIM. Because SIM writers are legitimate tools with many legal uses, they are easy and inexpensive to acquire and anyone with $10 or $15 to spare can get one via Ebay without even trying. The cloner can then put the duplicated SIM card in another phone, and use that phone to make calls and connections under the original phone owner’s account.
But there is another things to worry than your sim being cloned and used to scam you financially by accessing your credit cards and bank accounts.
It being, someone who has a screwed up mind, can try to harass us in various ways like sending continuous unsolicited messages, even when we tell them, we are not interested in them. Or worst case, post our number in public whereby it is listed as some titillating service provider that every tom, dick and harry will keep on sending texts to us, without knowing who we are in person actually and it will mount to a huge harassment. If the number was with us for quite long time, it could be very strenuous to handle this.
But keep your composure, calmly explain that you are not what they believe is, and MAKE SURE YOU ASK, WHERE THEY FOUND THIS NUMBER.
If it is a physical location, ask that person himself, if he / she can help to remove it from there ( anyone who calls need not be creep himself / herself , most will be normal people, just looking for some excitement or whatever anonymously. ). I am sure, within 4 attempts, you will get someone willing to help. You can also mention that if they don't help, you will be forced to give a police complaint along with these persons number, which will inconvenience him / her also.
If it is website, immediately contact the administrator, using Contact us / Report Abuse ,etc to get your number removed from there.
But I would like to advice that it is good to have a different social media number than from the regular number that we use, as general practice.
All my friends and relatives often approach me with all sorts of problems and this is the advice I give on this topic. I hope it will be useful to get a perspective of how things are.
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