Arun 795 Report post Posted January 9, 2005 NDTV - Saturday, January 8, 2005 (New Delhi) Mohammad Yaseen, alias Monu, allegedly ran an illegal mobile phone exchange racket in New Delhi. Yaseen cloned mobile phone numbers and made calls from them while the genuine owners of those numbers were billed. "He used a software named Petagonia, which can be used for CDMA phones made available by Reliance, Tata and Garuda. It is run on a technique of divisional multiplexing," said Karnail Singh, joint commissioner of police, Special Cell. "These phones have ESN numbers, which he can cloned using the software. Yaseen used to buy a phone or get the ESN number of any phone and clone it," added Singh. Expatriates, from places like Dubai, contacted Yaseen to connect them to a number in India. Yaseen would then set up a conferencing call, using a stolen CDMA phone number. He received his payments through a Hawala network. "They used to buy a phone, convert it into three by cloning it and then use all of them for four hours. He would then throw it without paying the bills. Since Yaseen used to operate from his car, it was difficult to trace him," added Singh. After his arrest, the police also recovered 23 mobile phones, a laptop and software cds. The police claim that illegal cloning of mobile phones may be the first such case in the country. But such a flourishing racket once again brings up the need to make our cyber laws more stringent. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rEdshiFt 1 Report post Posted January 9, 2005 (edited) Petagonia..... interesting dudez.... Edited: Looks like its pAtagonia Edited January 9, 2005 by rEdshiFt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted January 9, 2005 Yeh to hona hi tha! Now they find out, what we know already! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deepu 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2005 "They used to buy a phone, convert it into three by cloning it and then use all of them for four hours. Is it possible!!! ... to use all the cloned phones at the same time!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rahuldevnath 0 Report post Posted January 10, 2005 as far as i know....the answer is no! The question it's really stupid to make a ISD call from some other number...as Reliance can track that number....and easily gert hold of the defaulters. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vishal Gupta 4 Report post Posted January 12, 2005 Today i saw in a news channel, If we dial 951753 twice in any CDMA mobile phone, the phone'll display its ESN number. I hv only FWP, and its not working in it! So pls guys try and tell the result. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rEdshiFt 1 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 tha avs is askin for the "city std code" to be entered b4 951753 to make the call !! its a samsung 191 phone... what std code do i put ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
VivekRaja 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 Noooo.... Very Bad People. What can we do to safe our mobile. 951753951753 is not working in my LG RD 2030, Any method to know my ESN Number. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ashokjp 15 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 Noooo....Very Bad People. What can we do to safe our mobile. 951753951753 is not working in my LG RD 2030, Any method to know my ESN Number. 24145[/snapback] Yeh there is... Such topics used to do a gr8 time in RIMweb But discussions on cloning and cloning related topics are Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rahuldevnath 0 Report post Posted January 13, 2005 Really missed thoe days, when i used to be absent...and when all the fun was there!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ashras99 0 Report post Posted January 15, 2005 Ashok, frankly speaking mostly almost all topics need to be banned because evry topic somehow making dent in the business of reliance. But leave it, we love these type of topics to be discussed, so go on guys and shoot, what you have find out on cloning. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rEdshiFt 1 Report post Posted January 15, 2005 psst...VivekRaja, try Gsmforums.com...u might find something interesting u did NOT hear this from me...ok ? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
