Since the existence of mobile technology applied to cell phones and smartphones, there is also the famous IMEI (International Mobile Equipment Identity) number, a series of numbers that identifies the fingerprint of each device, so as to be identified by the managers and for this reason the IMEI number is unique.
The premise is a must to introduce a strange story that occurred in India, whose rotagonist is a Meerut police officer who discovered a strange round of fraudulent IMEI numbers. The discovery took place following the withdrawal of your smartphone from a service center following a repair, which in the following days highlighted a series of system errors, also quite frequent.
The strange case of IMEIs cloned on VIVO smartphones
Going specifically, the police officer realized that the IMEI of his phone had changed and so the investigations began that revealed the fact that other 13557 smartphones, all belonging to the VIVO brand, shared the same IMEI number, which was was therefore duplicated.
The authorities have filed a complaint against the manufacturer, although the guilt must be ascertained, as everything could have been done by the service center and certainly not behind Vivo's authorization. It must be said, however, that it is not the first time that the manufacturer is the protagonist of a story related to cloned IMEI, in fact according to a report by the Times of India in another part of the country another 50000 devices of the brand were discovered that shared the IMEI number .
Vivo has not released statements on duplicates of IMEI numbers, so it will be interesting to see how the company will handle the accusations it is facing.
