HOW TO PREVENT CELL PHONE CLONING

First of all, what IS cell phone cloning?

A hacker makes a copy of your cell phone number and intends to use it against you.

A cloned phone is like the evil twin of your cell.

When someone clones your phone, they may be able to:

• Access your voicemail • Make and receive calls from your number

• Access your voicemail • Make and receive calls from your number • Rack up a huge phone bill by making internaGonal calls • Commit idenGty theH

When someone clones your phone, they may be able to:

Think of how much information you have stored on your phone.

You log into apps and personal accounts just using your cell phone number.

Cloning phones is against the law, but when has that ever stopped anyone?

To protect your private information, the first thing you need is to recognize the warning signs

that your phone has been cloned.

How Can You Tell If Your Phone Has Been Cloned?

• Frequent wrong numbers • Calls that hang up as soon as you answer • Issues making outgoing calls • Incoming calls get a busy signal

How Can You Tell If Your Phone Has Been Cloned?

• Higher than normal phone bills • Phone numbers on your bill that you don’t recognize

• Problems accessing your voicemail

What To Do If You Suspect Your Phone

Has Been Cloned:

1. Search through your

phone bill and look for any numbers you

don’t recognize.

What To Do If You Suspect Your Phone

Has Been Cloned:

2. Take the phone

numbers you don’t recognize

and run them through a Reverse

Phone Lookup.

What To Do If You Suspect Your Phone

Has Been Cloned:

3. Within seconds, you

can find out who is on the other line of

repeated calls or text messages from

wrong numbers.

Criminals and identity thieves

are known to clone cell

phones, but it could also be someone you

know.

There are apps you can

download that make cloning a phone so easy that an

everyday phone user could do it.

You could have your phone

cloned by a crazy ex or a jealous

spouse.

Whoever is creeping on your calls, you need to protect yourself.

IF YOU RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE WARNING SIGNS

Run any unknown numbers through a Reverse Phone Lookup today!

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