Expert: DebiN - 8/25/2011

Question
I am curious about this too, i recently was given this number and a pin,when you enter a 10 digit number it either gives you a 4 digit # and the # to whichever carriers compliance site for warrants subpoenas and wireless intercept, or it informs you that the # has not been ported. I am wondering if the #s are ported could law enforcement have a clone of your phone so that all phone calls and messages sent are going to two different recipients?

Answer
Law enforcement does not have the jurisdiction or ability to clone or intercept wireless calls. The wireless networks don't work that way. The information that you are speaking about that I have answered a question a couple of years ago was as follows:

I have never heard of New Star and was not able to find any information about this anywhere. Can you tell me where you got the phone number, why you called it and what you were told that it would do for you? No agency or company can port your number (which means move it from your current carrier to another carrier) without your consent and without pertinent personal information, and when a number is ported, it can only be ported to a company who provides telecommunications service.

You can't tap a cell phone, so your phone isn't tapped. But if this particular company is indicating that your cell records are being sent somewhere, then if that is actually true, it would mean that they have the records of your calls (not the conversations, the records of what numbers were called and called you). I can't imagine how any of this is possible or what the purpose of any of this is.

Can you please write back and please let me know what number you called, where you got this information and what prompted you to make this call? It may be better if you mark the response as "private" so that it is not published and no one else calls the number.

I also don't understand the four digit number thing. When you have a private dialing plan, you can have four digit dialing, but that has nothing to do with porting or investigation or any such thing. Thanks and I look forward to hearing back from you. If you have a web site that you were given, please let me know that too. DebiN

Specifically to your question also, Michael, phones can't be cloned and messages can't be sent to two different recipients at the same time. I hope this helps.