This document summarizes information about mobile phone cloning, including how it works, its symptoms, methods of detection and prevention. It discusses that cloning involves copying the identity of one mobile phone to another so bills go to the legitimate subscriber. It provides details on GSM and CDMA networks and terms like IMEI, SIM, ESN and MIN. Symptoms of cloning include wrong numbers, hang ups, problems making calls and large bills to unknown numbers. Detection methods include duplicate detection and usage profiling while prevention includes blacklisting stolen phones and using PIN codes. Fraud from cloning costs the industry millions annually.