| DeMaria, R. and A. Gidari (1996, August). Uncovering unsavory customers. Cellular Business, 24--30. |
....is not charged for calls, which are usually worth far more (in retail dollars) than the cost of the cloned phone. Less obviously, cloning fraud allows untraceable communications because the bandit s identity cannot be tied to the cloned account. This second aspect is very important to criminals (DeMaria and Gidari 1996). Cloning fraud is detrimental in many ways. First, fraudulent usage congests cell sites, causing service to be denied to legitimate customers. Second, most cellular calls are to non cellular destinations, so fraud incurs land line usage charges. Third, cellular carriers must pay costs to other ....
DeMaria, R. and A. Gidari (1996, August). Uncovering unsavory customers. Cellular Business, 24--30.
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