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Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy?

From Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
Newsgroups misc.phone.mobile.iphone, comp.mobile.android
Subject Re: Who pays for a phone call to a US phone number, italy to italy?
Date 2015-07-28 10:03 +0200
Organization SAP AG
Message-ID <mp7d09$h2i$1@news.sap-ag.de> (permalink)
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Am 27.07.2015 um 23:33 schrieb nospam:
> In article <mp539c$snc$1@news.sap-ag.de>, Michael Eyd <invalid@eyd.de>
> wrote:
>
>>>> Just altering an IMEI alone doesn't have all five, and, upon first
>>>> initial thought, it doesn't even have one of the five.
>>>>
>>>> I'd have to look at the five things that make up fraud to see if altering
>>>> an IMEI *for the purpose* of deceiving the phone company, to see if all
>>>> five are encompassed (since certainly *some* of the five are).
>>>
>>> <http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/fraud>
>>>     Fraud must be proved by showing that the defendant's actions involved
>>>     five separate elements: (1) a false statement of a material fact,(2)
>>>     knowledge on the part of the defendant that the statement is untrue,
>>>     (3) intent on the part of the defendant to deceive the alleged
>>>     victim, (4) justifiable reliance by the alleged victim on the
>>>     statement, and (5) injury to the alleged victim as a result.
>>>
>>> 1 - false statement. your phone has a false imei.
>>> 2 - knowledge - you changed it, so you have knowledge that it's false
>>> 3 - intent - you deliberately changed it to get a cheaper service pan
>>> 4 - reliance - the carrier relies on the imei to provide service
>>
>> I have yet to meet one provider binding their services to the IMEI.
>
> they don't bind the service to the imei. they bind it to the *type* of
> phone which is determined by the imei.

Definitively not over here in Germany.

> there are cases where a sim is tied to a specific device but that's not
> that common (however, it does exist).

I know, that's the strictest binding of a device to a provider (SIM lock 
the hardest way, usually here in Germany such devices are only locked to 
a provider, but any SIM card from that provider will do).

>> If
>> that were the case with my provider (just as an example), my phone would
>> now be out of service as I had it replaced just on the weekend. And I
>> didn't tell anybody at the provider about this change, nor do I plan to,
>> nor do I have to, nor would they be the least interested in that useless
>> piece of information. Their service delivery (and cost allocation, ...)
>> is bound to the identification the SIM card provides, and is completely
>> agnostic as to the IMEI. They might (some providers do, others don't)
>> check the IMEI against blacklists, but that's a different story and not
>> the point in question here.
>
> swapping one phone for another similar phone is not the issue.

It would be if it was tied to the IMEI.

> the issue is trying to get a cheaper plan of service by falsifying the
> imei to look like a different class of device.
>
> in other words, putting a dumbphone imei into a smartphone so the
> carrier sees it as a dumbphone and doesn't automatically upgrade the
> service plan to a smartphone plan. that's illegal.

Wrong. Illegal means against the law. Which law is prohibiting that?

> another reason for altering an imei is to 'clean' a stolen phone that
> has been blacklisted. that's also illegal.

That's not a point in question, as that would have to be support of 
fencing (is that the correct term?), if not fencing in the first place.

> you do see the difference, do you not?

I see it, why don't you? ;-)

>>> 5 - injury - the carrier is not being paid for services rendered
>>
>> Wrong.
>
> it's not wrong.
>
> if you sign up for a dumbphone plan and then swap the sim to a
> smartphone that has had its imei altered to look like it's a dumbphone,
> then the carrier has been financially injured because you're not paying
> for the appropriate plan.

A plan I never subscribed to, a plan I never wanted in the first place. 
And the provider will get money for any service I used (billed per 
minute or per block of data, more expensive than if I had a data plan - 
but hey, it's my money and I'm free to choose how to throw it of the 
window!). So where's the damage?

> also if the other device ever shows up on the network at the same time,
> there can be other problems.

Technical problems, yes, but not legal problems.

>> I'm not quite sure about the US plans, but here in Germany you
>> can go online with a phone without data plan, but in that case you'll be
>> charged comparably high prices (per minute usually, sometimes per 1kB or
>> 10kB block, in any case this measure carries a high price tag). If the
>> situation is anything similar in the US (which I understand from the
>> argumentation of the AT&T exec it is), then the provider will get money
>> for the service rendered. The customer might not be happy about the high
>> bill, but the company will see their money.
>
> that doesn't matter.

It does because there's no damage at all for the provider and as such 
your claim of 'fraud' is proved to be wrong.

>> Bottomline: Even if I don't consider the first three points, points 4&5
>> are not fulfilled, therefore no fraud.
>
> all of the five items are fulfilled. you are wrong and it is very
> clearly fraud.

No reliance, no fraud.
No injury, no fraud.

Best regards,

Michael

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                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-07-27 08:03 -0500
                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-28 08:31 +1000
                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-07-27 18:51 -0500
                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-07-30 20:12 +1000
                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-07-30 05:50 -0500
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                Re: IMEI alteration is not fraud BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-07-27 18:50 -0500
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