Clipping of news on Brazilian Culture, Law and Citizenship
10/21/2013
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The modern and expensive phones are among the main targets of burglars . Gangs found a way to break the blockade of operators and resell the stolen devices .
CCTV footage of an electronics store in the metropolitan region of Porto Alegre show the movement of a man : first , it travels accompanied by a woman , like a customer. Following , unhinging showcase appliances and leads .
The delegate responsible for the case identified the buyer of one of these phones - you can be arrested for receiving stolen goods .
" He declared that he purchased the phone from a walking street in the Fatherland Volunteers in Porto Alegre and he also spoke that person offered several devices of different kinds ," the delegate said Leonel Baldasso .
The street is in the center of Porto Alegre . The cell , being stolen, should not work again.
" All phones have the IMEI , which is a worldwide code that uniquely identifies the phone . From the moment a person is lost or stolen phone the device , it comes into contact with the carrier and this phone will then be placed within a list of phone operator that can not be rehabilitated , "said engineering professor telecommunications Rafael Kunst .
But scammers have found ways to unlock these phones . With a computer program , they access the phone memory and swap this code from another phone by imei legalized - a kind of cloning .
A man charges $ 80 on the illegal service .
- A device that is here 600-700 dick .
- The value of the device ?
- It is
- But I want to know to unlock .
- Unlock 80 dick .
The National Union of operators know the problem and promises a solution against cloning cell phones for the first quarter of next year . " We'll have a control two equal IMEI running on your network . This means of course that is a clone and the operator then contacts with these two same numbers and allows the identification of the clone and then it will be blocked , "said Eduardo Levy , the Association of Telephone Companies and Mobile Service
Meanwhile , the devices continue to be targeted by criminals . A journalist was assaulted on the way to work and lost her cell phone , valued at £ 1,500.
" He threatens , he carried a helmet , said he used a gun . And asked me to choose between my life and the cell , "says the victim, who declined to be identified .
The FCC recognizes that older appliances , low quality , especially those who are not certified by the agency, possible tampering of records and hinder the identification of being used in scams .
The agency says it is developing a new system to inhibit stolen or stolen devices that are used by Brazilian networks . One possibility under consideration is to prevent stolen devices or stolen abroad, integrating international databases and national , are used here or vice versa .
The FCC recognizes that the procedures related to fraud are dynamic , but emphasizes that creates rules for the sector and oversees but does not participate directly in the operation lock the phones.
Source : G1 Morning Brazil
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