Did you know that even if your phone is in your pocket, you're still at risk of having information stolen? It's easier than ever for hackers to clone a cell phone and then use your number to cause trouble. Instant Checkmate compiled a list of warning signs that your phone has been cloned, so read through and see if any of them sound familiar. Then visit https://www.phone.instantcheckmate.com/ to search any unknown numbers that pop up on your bill!

1. HOW TO PREVENT CELL
PHONE CLONING

2. First of all, what IS cell phone
cloning?

3. A hacker makes a
copy of your cell
phone number and
intends to use it
against you.

4. A cloned phone is
like the evil twin of
your cell.

5. When someone clones your phone,
they may be able to:
• Access your voicemail
• Make and receive calls from your number

6. • Access your voicemail
• Make and receive calls from your number
• Rack up a huge phone bill by making internaGonal calls
• Commit idenGty theH
When someone clones your phone,
they may be able to:

7. Think of how much information you
have stored on your phone.

8. You log into apps and personal accounts
just using your cell phone number.

9. Cloning phones is against the law, but
when has that ever stopped anyone?

10. To protect your private information, the first
thing you need is to recognize the warning signs
that your phone has been cloned.

11. How Can You Tell If
Your Phone Has Been Cloned?
• Frequent wrong numbers
• Calls that hang up as soon as you answer
• Issues making outgoing calls
• Incoming calls get a busy signal

12. How Can You Tell If
Your Phone Has Been Cloned?
• Higher than normal phone bills
• Phone numbers on your bill that you
don’t recognize
• Problems accessing your voicemail

13. What To Do If You
Suspect Your Phone
Has Been Cloned:
1.
Search through your
phone bill and look
for any numbers you
don’t recognize.

14. What To Do If You
Suspect Your Phone
Has Been Cloned:
2.
Take the phone
numbers you
don’t recognize
and run them
through a Reverse
Phone Lookup.

15. What To Do If You
Suspect Your Phone
Has Been Cloned:
3.
Within seconds, you
can find out who is
on the other line of
repeated calls or text
messages from
wrong numbers.

16. Criminals and
identity thieves
are known to
clone cell
phones, but it
could also be
someone you
know.

17. There are apps
you can
download that
make cloning
a phone so
easy that an
everyday phone
user could do it.

18. You could have
your phone
cloned by a crazy
ex or a jealous
spouse.

19. Whoever is creeping on your calls,
you need to protect yourself.

20. IF YOU RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE
WARNING SIGNS
Run any unknown numbers through
a Reverse Phone Lookup today!
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