Posted on 04/19/2018 5:53:56 AM PDT by killermosquito
On three or four occasions my cell phone number has been hijacked in someway that I have received phone calls and text messages as though it would seem from myself.
Yesterday, the text message I received from myself and the image associated with the non-person who used my cellphone number to send me a text message used an image which I have saved on the cell phone.
WHAT THE HECK? ANY SUGGESTIONS?
Yesterday, the text message I received from myself and the image associated with the non-person who used my cellphone number to send me a text message used an image which I have saved on the cell phone.
WHAT THE HECK? ANY SUGGESTIONS?
Delete facebook chat. Delete any app you are not sure about. Change password and pin.
Did you restart your phone?
FCC is the swamp.
They like kick backs.
It’s caller id spoofing. Telemarketers are doing it to get around being blocked by the cell phone carriers who actually DON’T like this sort of activity on their networks because telemarketers piss off their customers, and the customers tend to blame the carrier. Google spoofing caller id - apparently not all that hard to do.
Some email services allow you to make an “alias” i.e., an alias email address that looks like another address. Right? Like my main email address could be satansmistress202@yahoo.com and my alias could be missgoody2shoes@rushlimbaugh.com. (Getting email from myself weirded me out the first time I saw it too. You can block those addresses if you get a lot of that type of mail.) As always, don’t click on it.
I am going through something similar. If you put your cell phone number on an online application, they can find it in the public domain and abuse your phone number. For me, it is for sales pitches and automated scams.
I am recording date/time stamp info and phone numbers of sales calls, and then blocking them and forwarding the numbers to Verizon. They say they can trace the origins and shut them down.
This happens to me a lot and I’m not on Facebook. I’ll get a call from a number that uses my prefix and I text back “I’ll call you back”. Then I get a text back that says “who is this?” I’ll text “you called me.” They text “no I didn’t”. Telemarketing companies must’ve found a way to steal numbers for a short period so that the recipient sees a number that looks “friendly” and they answer.
Block all calls u do not know .
Do not pick the calls up .
Just block .
Remove imessaging and twitter and snapchat .
File complaints against unknown numbers but do not pick up .
U can reset your phone too just to be sure .
see post #5
It hasn’t happened with my cell phone but something similar happens with my home phone. Calls come in and the caller-id says it’s a local business with the business’s phone number. Since it’s local I answer it and it’s always somebody trying to sell me something like home security systems, insurance, etc. We got a call yesterday that said it was my doctor but when I answered it was a woman trying to sell me a home security package. I have a call blocker unit on the phone so as soon as I see something like that I block it.
Phone numbers can be spoofed, but it sounds to me like your phone may have some kind of virus that can steal personal info. Certain phone apps can also have access to your photos if you allow it.
If someone sent you an image that you have saved ONLY on your phone, your phone is probably hacked. Do this, kn this orxer:
1. Change ALL passwords ever used from your phone. NOW.
2. Backup immediately (impoftante to change passwords 1st, or they’ll also get your backups)
3. Do “factory reset”
4. Restore.
However, if that image is elsewhere in the clud, along with your phone # (facebook, IG, twitter, etc) then it might be only cloud scraping of info, combined with spoofing. In which case, I’d change passwords and start unlinking phone # from cloud to all of my accounts (if I had any, which I don’t).
Imho
“Telemarketing companies must’ve found a way to steal numbers for a short period so that the recipient sees a number that looks “friendly” and they answer.”
No it is a “welcome to the wonderful world of VOIP” calling (Voice Over Internet Protocol). Very smart users of VOIP technology - Skype, Magic Jack, etc (making phone calls over the Internet), learned that using VOIP the caller can make it look like the phone number they are calling from is any number they want it to be. By the time the call leaves the Internet and is traveling through the cell phone or landline systems, the IP address the call originated from is gone, and the systems just processes the call (even if it is to the same number being passed as the number is being called from).
“They” wanted the Internet “open” and they got it.
The number “Called From” was spoofed
similar to all those calls you get from
numbers with same 3digit prefix as yours
You may have installed an application that required permissions to access your photos and other services. Some apps request permissions to services that they have no business requesting.
...when looking for a bluetooth heartbeat monitor application I found a number that requested access to my photos, contact list, GPS position, ...etc.. Completely unnecessary.
I just tell them:
“You have been added to my list of companies I’ll NEVER do business with.”
I got a call from my daughter on my cell. Caller ID showed my daughter, but it was a telemarketer.
Others have correctly pointed out that it’s likely Caller ID spoofing. It happens all the time. You would think in the myriad of regulations we already have to deal with that this would be illegal — it should.
MJ
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