Korea Offers Big Rewards to Apprehend Phone Cloners

The Korean government plans to offer a reward of a maximum 10 million Won ($10,250) for those who report producers of cloned cell phones. The Korea Times reports.

"... Every cell phone has a unique factory-set electronic serial number (ESN). A cloned phone is one illegally programmed to have an identical ESN as a legitimate handset.

Cloning of cell phones has emerged as a social headache in Korea, where more than 38 million among the country’s total 48 million population are subscribed to mobile telephone services."

Related articles:

-- Cloned Mobiles Flood Korean Market

-- Software to detect cloned mobile phones

-- Cell Phone Cloning Spreading Fast

-- South Korea fights back against phone-cloners and thieves

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