Cell Phones Cloning Racket Busted

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Friday February 18 2005 00:00 IST

UNI

HYDERABAD: A gang involved in cloning of mobile phones with CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) technology were nabbed by the police here on Thursday.

In all, eight persons including two main accused Shaik Mujeeb Quershi (30), a CD shop owner and Mohd Faiz (30), mobile technician were arrested.

South zone deputy commissioner of police Mahesh Bhagwat said that the accused Mujeeb and Fiaz were involved in cloning of Reliance, LG cell phones with the help of LG software and data cable cord acquired through illegal means.

Their modus operandi was to get ESN (Electronic Serial Numbers) of Tata Tele Services from cell phone technicians market along with Mobile Identification Number (MIN), and activate old Reliance LG phones by deleting the existing Reliance data of LG mobile phones and replacing it with the new ESN of Tata mobile phones obtained by various means from the mobile phones of customers, who give their cell phones for repairing purpose.

At a time about seven to ten mobile phones would function on a single Tata Mobitel or WLL phone causing enormous loss to the genuine subscriber and also to the CDMA operators, (Tata Tele Services), he explained.

Mr Bhagwat said that Mujeeb acquired cloning software through a Mumbai-based friend Sunil. He said Mujeeb, who clones the cell phones generally at cyber cafes, cloned 25 mobile phones and gave to different persons. From his the police seized LG CDMA software disc and data cord from him.

Another arrested, Faiz cloned about 100 mobile phones.

These two accused were using others to sell the mobile phones.

During the investigation it came to light that a market in the city has become a hub of activity for utilizing the software for cloning of CDMA mobiles. Some of the important accused involved in the racket are still absconding. Efforts are on to nab them, he added.

[unwantedmails 0]

See cloning is already so much of a problem and they are talking about cloning humans. STOP IT NOW. Soon you will see that ---

HYDERABAD: A gang involved in cloning of humans with XYZ Cloning technology were nabbed by the police here on Thursday.

In all, eight persons including two main accused Shaik Mujeeb Quershi (30), a hospital owner and Mohd Faiz (30), cloning technician were arrested.

Their modus operandi was to get a DNA Sample of a person from doctors in the market and clone old useful, intelligent people by deleting the existing memories and replacing it with the new SLAVERY details obtained by various means from the customers, who visit their doctors for treatment purpose.

Another arrested, Faiz cloned about 100 people for being Slaves and then exported to middle east and also some far east countries and supercheap labours.

[deepu 0]

ha ha ha !!! That was funny!!!

[compenn 0]

In this corrupt country in which the top to bottom of the berueacrats are ROT how do you expect the rest of the population to be clean & honest.

Whats wrong if somebody also eat a little part of this country when the politicians are doing that all the time.

[Chirag 5]

I would like to know, who makes politicians, buearaucrats corrupt? Lets look into ourselves, before blaming someone else!

[akshaybrid 0]

In our great country everything is possible .... cloning is stopped as reliance has taken steps to control it ... reliance is cheap, affordable service provided in india...

Hats off to Shri.Dhirubhai Ambani !

[akshaybrid 0]

Hi all,

Since cloning is illegal , why the access to forums and yahoogroups are posting the softwares freely on web, is not prevented? Is there any international law which says cloning is illegal,can anyone give details? and whatz the authorities in our country doing in this regard ?

Is reliance not opening front against the websites which are freely allowing users to downloads these softwares...

Itz surprising that the source of illegal software is not blocked yet when everyone knows that catching few thieves(cloners) is going to stop it.

akshay

Edited March 21, 2005 by akshaybrid