How easy is it to clone a cell phone number?

[75th]

Dont know if anybody here remembers my restraining order thread about that psycho slut who was harassing my wife and I, but she has decided to strike again.

Her brother works at a cell phone dealership place where I bought my current cell phone. The psycho called us last night and played some voicemails that admittidely did resemble my tone of voice (obviously I never sent them) and it said they came from my personal cell phone number.

Im just curious as to whether or not she, with the help of her brother, would be able to pull a trick like this? I know obviously that there is a possability to clone a cell phone number, but I dont know if this could be actually cloning. In this day and age with the "power" her brother has at his disposal there must be a way to do this.

 

[FreeballinDC]

75th, in the past, with analog cell phones, it was easy to clone a phone. But now with CDMA and GSM digital networks, it is impossible to clone a phone and have the network recognize it as a legitimate user. The network would disallow any association.

But what do you mean by "it said they came from my personal cell phone number"? Is she saying those voicemails came from your cell phone, or is a recording saying those voicemails are coming from your cell phone?

 

[Code]

Hacking GSM chips is nearly impossible.
It has been done in the past, and the chip architecture changed as a result.

In theory, if you knew the MD5 value of the userid:service_provider you could make unlimited number of duplicate chips.

 

[75th]

75th, in the past, with analog cell phones, it was easy to clone a phone. But now with CDMA and GSM digital networks, it is impossible to clone a phone and have the network recognize it as a legitimate user. The network would disallow any association.

But what do you mean by "it said they came from my personal cell phone number"? Is she saying those voicemails came from your cell phone, or is a recording saying those voicemails are coming from your cell phone?

Her phone itself is saying it came from my number. Like I said her brother works at the place I purchased my plan and my phone. Anything to do with it?

 

[FreeballinDC]

Her phone itself is saying it came from my number. Like I said her brother works at the place I purchased my plan and my phone. Anything to do with it?

maybe, do you know her cell phone provider? He would have to jump through a bunch of hoops, and a bunch of red flags would have been raised at the providers network management facilities.

Is he a direct employee of a wireless provider, or is he a middle man?

 

[75th]

maybe, do you know her cell phone provider? He would have to jump through a bunch of hoops, and a bunch of red flags would have been raised at the providers network management facilities.

Is he a direct employee of a wireless provider, or is he a middle man?

She has Sprint. Im just wondering that perhaps with access to my account info and all that jazz he would be able to use any other Cingular phone and make it seem like he was calling from my number. Shit, even assigning my number to another phone then changing it back.

 

[FreeballinDC]

She has Sprint. Im just wondering that perhaps with access to my account info and all that jazz he would be able to use any other Cingular phone and make it seem like he was calling from my number. Shit, even assigning my number to another phone then changing it back.

Here's what you can do. Call up Cingular customer service and see if the number was switched with another phone. Give them the time frame of when you think this happened. Customer service would be able to bring up your records quickly and tell you if this happened or not. If there was a switch, they would also know who authorized the switch, or where the request for the switch originated. Also, if your account was tampered with, customer service would know that too.

If he did what you think he did, there will be a smoking trail of digital tomfoolery leading right back to him.