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Have you ever wondered what is the difference between the fake and the real stealth phones? Here you can find the answer: [url=http://stealth-phones-testing.weebly.com/]http://stealth-phones-testing.weebly.com/[/url]
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The guys from [url=http://stealth-phones-testing.weebly.com/blog]stealth-phones-testing.weebly.com[/url] has found another scammer that sell fake stealth phones.
This is their newest post:
Another seller, busted: fake stealth phones for sale
Screenshot: another vendor selling fake stealth phones
We have discovered recently another website that is offering "stealth phones" on cheap prices. Apparently, this vendor is selling stealth phones that comes on the right platform: G608.
A fake back label for a fake stealth phone
The thing that caught our attention in the mention "ANTITAP" on the back label, as you can see in the screenshot attached. Being an unusual and irregular mention on any mobile phone label and even more for a phone produced by Samsung, we proceeded to investigate this inscription. Thus, we used a software application called [url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.zxing.client.android&hl=en]Barcode Scanner[/url] (an Android application freely available on Play Store) for reading bar code label. You can do this as well.
By scanning the bar code directly from our PC screen, we've got this result:
Getting IMEI from a fake stealth phone
The digits you can see in the photo above are just the phone IMEI. This bar code containing phone IMEI is present on any mobile phone.
We've proceeded further, in order to identify the phone model, by correlating IMEI that appears on the label. By parsing the IMEI code on a online IMEI analysing tool ([url=www.imei.info]www.imei.info[/url]), we've got this result:
Checking IMEI
Surprise: IMEI belongs to Samsung G600. Busted!
So, the IMEI claimed to belong to a Samsung G608 actually belongs to a Samsung G600, which is the wrong platform used by scammers to sell fake stealth phones. Simple as that.
A genuine Samsung G600 back label looks like this:
Proper Samsung S/N: 11 digit
Please note the structure of Serial Number: 11 digit, as Samsung official says.
We did not stop there and asked an Samsung official about this label (IMEI and S/N). Here is his response:
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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
416 Maetan3-Dong Yeongtong-gu, Suwon city, Gyeonggi-Do, Korea 442-742
Date: Jan12, 2015
RE: Request of Information for IMEI 355683044004277
To: Mr. Anders Gustafson
The IMEI 355683044004277 belongs to an Samsung SGH-G600 that was produced by Samsung Electronics in 2007.
The serial number R1VPANTITAP is wrong an is not specific to Samsung S/N. Serial numbers used for Samsung G600 and Samsung G608 series are having 11 (eleven) digit, a sequence of letters and numbers but not only letters.
We are happy to assist you in your academic study. Please do not hesitate to contact us for further assistance.
Sincerely,
SEOUNG HO PARK
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.,LTD.
We also find that FCC ID A3LSGHG606 from that fake Samsung G608 belongs actually to Samsung G600:
FCC ID belongs to Samsung G600
This particular scammer is trying to fool buyers and taking advantage of the lack of information of most of you, when it comes to special mobile phones called stealth phones. This scammer sell fake stealth phones, making them to look like original ones (XCell) by sticking a false label on the back of the phone. And nothing more. No hardware modifications, no filters, nothing that can be named a real and working stealth phone.
Moreover, this scammer is trying to convince the website visitors and potential buyers that Samsung Electronics has built the "stealth phone" that he sell. Nothing could be more wrong: Samsung has never built stealth phones but only regular cellular phones.
The real IMEI change stealth phones are being built based on a patent that belong to XCell Technologies, the manufacturer company. The phones are manufactured only by XCell Technologies and sold directly to consumers or through various resellers and regional dealers, under various brand names or even as no name stealth phones for discrete use, considering XCell reputation and brand awareness.
You can easily identify a real XCell stealth phone by checking up the security seal and other things mentioned in the previous post.
Conclusions
If the low price is the only choice maker, you should think once again before buying a cheap stealth phone from a dubious seller: is that you want? A fake stealth phone is as useful as a real one? It will work the same? Will really protect your privacy? The answers are found in comparative tests presented in the previous post.
And not at last: our advice is just to avoid www.imeichanger.com if you really care of your calls privacy.
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A comprehensive view on stealth phone scam
Following our investigations carried out in recent months, we have discovered several vendors that sell fake stealth phones. We present our investigation results, hoping that the following info will be helpful when you decide to buy a stealth phone.
So, we have identified the following scammers:
1 (location: Cork, Ireland)
Name: Dave H., private individual
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Cork, Ireland
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
2 (location: Dublin, Saggart, Ireland)
Name: Spystore Ireland
Current Status: physical store
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Dublin, Ireland
Address Information: Mc Greggor House, The Fairways, Citywest Complex, Saggart, Co. Dublin
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
3 (location: Naas, Ireland)
Name: lightning lofts (nick name used on classifieds), private individual
Current Status: online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
4 (location: Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, UK)
Name: Sohail Hussain aka Steven Adams (Jd Mobile Unlocking Service, private held company)
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer, online store scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Newtownabbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
Address Information: 3 Dillons Grange, Dillons Avenue, Newtownabbey, County Antrim, BT370HU
Additional Info: A simple repair shop guy, that watched way too many 007 movies. fix.mobile.to.work, fixmob_fydy4156obf@members.ebay.co.uk, jdmobileunlockservice, http://gsminterceptor.co.uk/, hello@gsminterceptor.co.uk
SPECIAL NOTE: this particular scammer is the actual seller of Siemens S65 stealth phone, on gsminterceptor.co.uk, eBay and other classifieds. Has sold in the past years fake Samsung G600 stealth phones, and now pretends that those phones are good for nothing, totally disregarding his former clients, who have been cheated anyway by buying fake Samsung G600 stealth phones.
This is his newest scam: [url=http://gsminterceptor.co.uk/product/siemens-s65sl75-untraceable-covert-updated-gsm-mobile-stealth-phone/]http://gsminterceptor.co.uk/product/siemens-s65sl75-untraceable-covert-updated-gsm-mobile-stealth-phone/[/url]
A funny fact: there is an Youtube movie ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=jddDwzA2pq0 ) where he is trying to tell us that Siemens S65 phones are the best ones and Samsung G600 (and not G608, as genuine XStealth) are not good at all. But in the same time he contiune to sell Samsung G600 stealth phones on his website (http://gsminterceptor.co.uk/product/imei-phone/).
It seems to be the most unimaginative, the most tricky and the most ridiculous of all scammers. Not confined only to deceive buyers, he steal from original stealth phones manufacturer (XCell Technologies) all that he find to fit his needs: text content, technical explanations, photos. Everything for deceiving his customers. Here's what we have discovered, to his shame: he stole the soundtrack from one of the XCell Youtube clips ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtnc-5PdJ7I ). Please notice the specific sound of XCell original intro clip. Here is the original XCell video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtnc-5PdJ7I) and here is the video that use the soundtrack stolen by Sohail Hussain ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=85114404&x-yt-ts=1422579428&v=jddDwzA2pq0 ). Based on his habits, we expect from him to steal even the soundtracks from our Youtube clips. But by far, the worst thing is that he steals money by cheating his customers, selling fake products.
The question is: can you trust someone and buy security from him (stealth phones, etc.), can you put your calls confidentiality in the hands of somebody that lends itself to such petty theft? Of course not. Our advice: avoid shopping from gsminterceptor.co.uk, and anything that is relate to fix.mobile.to.work and jdmobileunlockservice. If you are in doubt, please atingere us.
Seems like his customers start to complain about product that he sell: http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f88/siemens-s65-imei-change-331494/
5 (location: Birmingham UK)
Name: Chow
Current Status: online shop scam (anti-interceptor.com), online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Birmingham, UK
Address Information: Birmingham City Centre, West Midlands, UK
Additional Info: anti-interceptor.com, big-boyz-toyz, gadgetboy1979@gmail.com
6 (location: Thetford, Norfolk, UK)
Name: jaaamm1976 (nickname)
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Thetford, Norfolk, United Kingdom
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
7 (location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK)
Name: mobile.phones.2u (nickname)
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Wirral, Merseyside, UK
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
8 (location: Manchester, UK)
Name: auction2home (eBay nickname)
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Manchester, UK
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
9 (location: Monaco, Monaco)
Name: Vittorio Ossola
Current Status: eBay scammer, online classifieds scammer, online shop scam
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Monaco, Monaco
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: www.secretgsm.com, Bergamo, Lodi
10 (location: Ural, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation)
Name: Vasili Loginov
Current Status: online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Ural, Russian Federation.
Address Information: Ural, Krasnoyarskiy Kray, Russian Federation
Additional Info: temporarily unavailable
11 (location: Jakarta, Indonesia)
Name: Jody Mangindaan
Current Status: online store scam, online classifieds scammer
Fraud: selling fake stealth phones
Assigned Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Address Information: temporarily unavailable
Additional Info: imeichanger.com
Please notice that we have already warn you about this particular scammer, a while ago. Please read here.
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