In the 90s, thieves have stolen cellular phone numbers from unsuspecting customers and rung up billions of dollars in fraudulent calls.
Cellular fraud is the unauthorized use, tampering, and manipulation of cellular phone service.
Here are tips on protecting yourself from being a cellular fraud victim. This number can also be captured, but it s another safety precaution. Find out which phones have roaming capabilities and limit these as much as possible. Cloners prefer roaming phones for this reason and they target airport parking lots and busy interstates. Roaming also makes it more difficult for some cellular carriers to use fraud-detection programs to monitor an account and shut it off when fraud is detected.