Hello List! I guess anything can happen at least once to anyone. Last night I came to the realization that my cell phone may have been cloned when the phone rang at some odd hour. The only reason why it was on at all was that I was checking the power remaining in the battery. I answered, and the caller promptly hung up. Called the cell- provider 24-hour customer service number. They pulled up my records and YIKES!! The past month bore no resemblence to my calling patterns over the past 3 years. The resettable timer on my phone said I had used just 43 minutes and the service rep said I was being billed for over 1000 minutes for calls made to all parts of the country for the billing cycle ending just 3 days ago. Go Figure! My monthly average is less than 100 min. My question to the world is this. Do the cell- service providers monitor account activity the way credit card companies do? Somehow I doubt it. Otherwise such an increase in activity at the outset of this mess should have been detected. Add to the evidence some calls originating from the metro Detroit area within the same hour as a roaming call originating from Massachusetts. Go Figure! It didn't seem to occur to anyone at the cell- provider that anything was amiss until I reported last night's call attempt, that being the first hint I had that something was going on. The bill should be arriving here in about a week. No doubt there will be a fall-out from all of this. I'll be tempted to keep you all posted with all of the gory details but if you'd rather I didn't, please say so. Thanks for taking the time to read this much ... so far. ZR! RPT Ann Arbor MI diskladame@provide.net
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