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• Transaction from your account without your permission.
• Busy signal in the phone or more wrong number.
You might have heard
• Scan the SIM to extract IMSI
and Ki, the 128 bit key.
• Now put the IMSI and Ki into some card software.
• And then copy it into a new SIM card.
• We now have a cloned SIM
How to clone a SIM card?
• Frequent receiving of wrong numbers.
• Problem in placing outgoing calls.
• Incoming calls constantly receiving busy signals.
How to know that your SIM card has been cloned ?
• When you swipe your card through the machine , skimmer present on the extracts your card details.
• A skimmer is a device that fits over the card acceptance slot and steals the data stored on the card's magnetic stripe.
How to clone a card?
EMV CARDS
• EMV is beyond the card itself. There's a chip on the card that cannot be cloned, thus defeating the efforts of cloning the card by skimming it over a reader
• It's a physical device on the card itself, not "virtual" or encoded onto the card.
• If you lose your credit card, inform your credit card company immediately
• Use chip based credit cards.
• Stay attentive , when presenting your card at a shop or restaurant
PROTECTION METHODS
• Use EMV cards.
• Introduction of PIN while performing transaction.
• Confirmation of big transaction from bank.
PROTECTION METHODS BY GOVT./BANK