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Cell Phone CEOs Marked For Phone Cloning

Posted by Zonk on from the better-than-real-cloning dept.

Saint Aardvark writes "When Sarah Drummond got back from Israel, she found a cell phone bill for more than $12,000. She contacted her cell phone provider to let them know that someone had stolen her phone, but they weren't interested in helping her and told her she'd have to pay. In preparing for small claims court, she and her partner found out that not only does her company have the ability to spot unusual activity on a cell phone account, the company executives' own phones have been targeted by a group linked to Hezbollah. From the article: 'They were using actually a pretty brilliant psychology. Nobody wants to cut off [CEO] Ted Rogers' phone or any people that are directly under Ted Rogers, so they took their scanners to our building, like our north building, where our senior top, top, top executives are. They took their scanners there and also to Yorkville, where there are a lot of high rollers and like it would be a major PR blunder to shoot first and ask questions later. . . . Nobody wants to shut off Ted. Even if he is calling Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and Kuwait.'"

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  1. What's a "cel phone"? by 1u3hr · · Score: 1, Funny

    As title.

    1. Re:What's a "cel phone"? by GlassUser · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think it has to do with animations. An individual illustraion that makes a frame is a "cel".

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  2. Re:This company should be charged... by luvirini · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well, given the way US kidnaps regulary people abroad, why would they not? Though I understand it is not FBI that does that.

  3. Whis is this Ms. Hopper? by IANAAC · · Score: 3, Funny
    She sounds like a teenage girl. "... our building, like our north building" and "... our senior top, top, top executives".

    I know it's a minor nit, but you'd think that when you're actually talking with the press you could say something more intelligent than "I was all like totally surprised".

  4. Reminds me of that Wired article by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny
    on three blind Israeli Phreakers http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.02/phreaks_p r.html

    Yekutiel "Kuty" Lavi, a security specialist at Bezeq International, Israel's largest telco and a frequent victim of the Badirs, angrily complains, "Every day people try to steal from us, but nobody has ever stolen from us the way the [three brothers] did. When they dial, they use the middle finger."
    Isn't that just a great mental image?
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  5. Incorrect detail by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny
    Nobody wants to shut off Ted.

    Ted Rogers? In a heartbeat! Let him go through his own crummy "customer service" to get reconnected.

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  6. Re:Rogers Wireless Customer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please man, use, commas, like someone, other than, Shatner.