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New Delhi: Double roles are not relegated to filmdom, for now, even mobile phones can be duplicated. Police have sounded alarms on dangers of mobile cloning.

If you have received a huge phone bill for calls you've never made, chances are you're a victim of phone cloning.

As a victim, Anand Prakash said, “I received a number of calls saying I had given missed calls but I never did.”

That's what happens when tech-savvy thieves duplicate your phone's identity. It's surprisingly easy, especially for CDMA phones.

First, download software from sites like www.cracktorrentserials.com and cellphonehack.com. Then feed the phone’s Electronic Serial number (ESN) and mobile identification number (MIN) into the software. Finally, digitally imprint those numbers onto another phone.

Some men were recently caught cloning phones. In business for the last four years, they sold each cloned handset for Rs 5,000-7,000.

People could make STDISD calls, spy on your conversations and even rig terror attacks using your number.

The only way to protect your phone is to not let it out of your sight. Nor should you give it to unauthorized people to repair or else your cloned phone could end up being sold at places like Delhi’s Ghaffar Market.