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Archive for September, 2009

A person recently discovered to his great consternation that his mobile phone bill included a large amount of calls that he did not ever made. He verified his bill with the mobile phone company that indeed, the call came from his mobile phone number. A lady who visited her sick friend in a hospital left her car in the parking area of the hospital compound, forgetting to lock the door. When she returned, her mobile phone she left inside her car was gone. A teenage boy was showing off his brand new mobile phone to his girlfriend inside a restaurant. When they went out of the restaurant, somebody bumped the young boy from behind as if trying to catch a taxi. Moments later, the boy felt something is missing from his pocket. When he tried to dip inside his pocket, his brand new mobile phone was already gone. These three people were victims of mobile phone frauds.

With the mass proliferation of mobile phones nearly every where, criminals have found ways wherein they can obtain information and contact their criminal associates freely and avoid wire tapping detection by the authorities through utilizing mobile phones that were illegally obtained. The mobile phone frauds has become a cause for concerns to police operatives every where. The method employed by these criminals would be to use two kinds of equipment in their criminal activities to effect using the assigned number of a legal mobile phone to make his calls from a stolen mobile phone free of charge, courtesy of the owner whose assigned legitimate mobile phone number he has stolen.

This is how they do it. When you purchase a mobile phone, there is already a pre assigned number to your phone known as the Electronic Serial Number or ESN. The mobile phone retailer will likewise provide you with another set of numbers known as your Mobile Identification Number or MIN. These two sets of numbers combined will form as your very own unique mobile phone numbers and will serve as the fingerprints of your mobile phone for signal recognition and validation of your mobile phone to cell sites.

Cell phone offers free are becoming a more lucrative business tool for all the major phone companies. Free always plays well in any business advertising and when we are talking the phone business it’s a big deal. Cellular phone companies are coming into a new area of consumer awareness and they know what they must do in order to control the majority of phone customers

Anytime cell phone offers free go out, you can rest assured that there will be anxious consumers reading the fine print for sure, so the cell phone offers must be legitimate and attractive since the cellular phone market is becoming wise to the fine print and added costs involved on the consumers phone bill.

Free does not always mean free in the truest sense of the word, so beware mobile phone users, you are being targeted first and foremost and having you sign up for free phone offers is the tool of choice by the cell phone companies.

One of the biggest cell phone offers currently being employed is the free phone with any new cellular phone plan. One aspect of the mobile phone business that most consumers do not understand is the ownership of the cell phones. While you would think that the cellular phone companies own the mobile phones they provide, they don’t and this helps to explain why existing customers cannot easily change or upgrade their portable phone model when a new style becomes available.