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Protect Your SIM from Cloning Scams

The document warns about missed calls starting with certain numbers that are being used to clone SIM cards. If a user calls back one of these numbers, their phone and SIM card details can be cloned without their knowledge. Over 100,000 subscribers have reportedly fallen victim to this scam. Intelligence agencies have confirmed the scam is ongoing and growing, cloning phones to access personal and financial information stored on them. Experts advise not responding to unusual numbers and avoiding storing sensitive details like banking passwords on phones to prevent financial losses if a phone is cloned.

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Protect Your SIM from Cloning Scams

The document warns about missed calls starting with certain numbers that are being used to clone SIM cards. If a user calls back one of these numbers, their phone and SIM card details can be cloned without their knowledge. Over 100,000 subscribers have reportedly fallen victim to this scam. Intelligence agencies have confirmed the scam is ongoing and growing, cloning phones to access personal and financial information stored on them. Experts advise not responding to unusual numbers and avoiding storing sensitive details like banking passwords on phones to prevent financial losses if a phone is cloned.

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Beware of missed call to check SIM cloning LUCKNOW: Next time if you get a missed call starting with

+92; #90 or #09, don't show the courtesy of calling back because chances are it would lead to your SIM card being cloned. The telecom service providers are now issuing alerts to subs cribers particularly about the series mentioned above as the moment one press the call button after dialing the above number, someone at the other end will get y our phone and SIM card cloned. According to reports, more than one lakh subscribers have fallen prey to this ne w telecom terror attack as the frequency of such calls continues to grow. Intell igence agencies have reportedly confirmed to the service providers particularly in UP West telecom division that such a racket is not only under way but the men ace is growing fast. "We are sure there must be some more similar combinations t hat the miscreants are using to clone the handsets and all the information store d in them," an intelligence officer told TOI. General Manager (GM) BSNL, RV Verma, said the department had already issued aler ts to all the broadband subscribers and now alert SMSes were being issued to oth er subscribers as well. As per Rakshit Tandon, an IT expert who also teaches at the police academy (UP), the crooks can use other combination of numbers as well while making a call. "I t is better not to respond to calls received from unusual calling numbers," says Tandon. "At the same time one should avoid storing specifics of their bank acco unt, ATM/ Credit/Debit card numbers and passwords in their phone memory because if one falls a prey to such crooks then the moment your cell phone or sim are cl oned, the data will be available to the crooks who can withdraw amount from your bank accounts as well," warns Punit Misra; an IT expert who also owns a consult ancy in Lucknow. The menace that threatens to steal the subscriber's information stored in the ph one or external memory (sim, memory & data cards) has a very scary side as well. Once cloned, the culprits can well use the cloned copy to make calls to any num ber they wish to. This exposes the subscribers to the threat of their connection being used for terror calls. Though it will be established during the course of investigations that the cellphone has been cloned and misused elsewhere, it is sure to land the subscriber under quite some pressure till the time the fact abo ut his or her phone being cloned and misused is established, intelligence source s said. "It usually starts with a miss call from a number starting with + 92. The moment the subscriber calls back on the miss call, his or her cell phone is cloned. In case the subscribers takes the call before it is dropped as a miss call then th e caller on the other end poses as a call center executive checking the connecti vity and call flow of the particular service provider. The caller then asks the subscriber to press # 09 or # 90 call back on his number to establish that the c onnectivity to the subscriber was seamless," says a victim who reported the matt er to the BSNL office at Moradabad last week. "The moment I redialed the caller number, my account balance lost a sum of money. Thereafter, in the three days th at followed every time I got my cell phone recharged, the balance would be reduc ed to single digits within the next few minutes," she told the BSNL officials.

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