Counterfeit Blackberry..

pbearmore,

Done quite a lot of work on "grey market" phones and currently writing a disseration on them.

Chances are it runs on the MTK chipset (so XRY can attempt an extraction using the generic MTK extraction). Note this is based on bluetooth.

Else, You can (note ACPO regulations), plug the phone in using it's supplied data cable. If you run the "webcam" or "COM port" settings it will install an MT driver. You can then turn the device off, plug it in again and the memory will be available in the same form as a USB flash disk.

The device will appear as two drives, one will be the SD card, one will be the internal memory (with two partitions) holding the data.

Hope that helps, if you need any help just give me a shout.

Nat

Hi Nat,

Did you have found how to recover deleted messages or BB Conversation yet? Or is there somebody have found the way to investigate this?

Thx

FL

Not a BB, but it sure stresses the point…

http//www.macstories.net/news/fake-iphones-and-ipods-worth-10-million-seized-by-l-a-police/

Have anyone checked this out
http//www.edecdigitalforensics.com/tarantula-chinese-chipset-analysis-tool

I hope this does what it states. Can be very useful

Have anyone checked this out
http//www.edecdigitalforensics.com/tarantula-chinese-chipset-analysis-tool

I hope this does what it states. Can be very useful

It has useful features for technical investigations but limitations on certain recovery.

There aren't millions of manufacturer named products and there aren't millions of particular models of handsets on the market. However there are millions of people using a particular number of makes/models available in the marketplace.

Have anyone checked this out
http//www.edecdigitalforensics.com/tarantula-chinese-chipset-analysis-tool

I hope this does what it states. Can be very useful

I have had a look at the box in operation; it seems pretty good hardware, but as trewmte says the data recovery seemed a bit limited. It is early stages for the product, so this will probably be improved.
If you are confident in your own decoding, you can get various flasher boxes (spiderman box, hyper box, etc) to read the flash and then decode the memory yourself.

And forensiclovers, if your question relates to real blackberry's, then we are able to recover deleted messages and BBM conversations. It is currently a service we offer, and not a product at the moment. PM me if you want to know anymore

Trewmte and Ixam,

Thanks for your replies. How to find the technology being used on a certain mobile set. i mean MTK or other.
Thanks