Posted on 02/03/2021 9:21:25 AM PST by RideForever
I filed a police report a couple of weeks ago about a caller selling extended car warranties. Several months before I had received a notice from our Dept. Motor Vehicles that inquiries were made against the 2 vehicles parked in my driveway. So when the call came about extended warranty shortly thereafter, I thought it might be a scam and reported it.
Three days ago I get a call from a local number about extending my car's warranty, ..., ... I really didn't hear what he was saying because suddenly my phone turned BlueTooth (BT) on, and I immediately set my options to turn it off. I spoke a couple of words and BOOM! The BT light came back on, and a menu of devices, including my car remote access, was displayed. As soon I could I shut off BT and disconnected the call. The BT did not return. I also recall the menu of devices displayed ATT UVerse. Phone is a Samsung 8. Car couldn't respond because it was at the shop across town.
I never considered that a function of my phone could be turned on or off from a phone call. Had the BT link been established, would my car's computer surrender my travel history and device IP (including VIN)? Could a phone call received when I am driving be used to send a signal to disable the car somehow? Could malware be downloaded to my car's Android computer? This ties my phone to the address / name of my vehicles at DMV.
The NSA, the Chicoms, same difference.
You have no privacy.
Act accordingly.
Yes.
A phone call from a spoofed number could be as simple as a means to track your phone and see if it is on and where it is at....
Extended car warranties are a major scam. Do not do business, d not talk, hang up and immediately block - they will keep calling from different numbers - repeat blocking and after a month or two they will be mostly gone.
No Chinese involved. Just your normal criminals scamming.
Also, smart phones can track a person down to 6 feet when wifi location is used along with GPS and cell phone triangulation.
And the information compiled on all of us is forever.
And yes, you can try to mitigate it. Just takes diligence.
This guys has some good suggestions starting with dumping Facebook.
Bkmrk
Pay no attention to this Yankee dogs!
The friendly leaders of the Communist Party in China only have your best interests in mind.
Now, back to work you white devils!
Not what you had, however:
My wife’s Lexus is 15 years old and my Ridgeline was one of the first out and its warranty has also expired.
At least, each day we get a cloned number (same area code and sometimes 2 times. Supposedly my business phone number called us twice.)
The message was all ways the same, your warranty is about to expire.
My wife now gets them on her cell phone. NoMoreRobo calls does’t work as they keep cloning the area code and a local number.
Do you think the Foxcon factories in China have escaped the militarization of the Chinese economy?
I have not had my phone switched remotely, but many has been the time I have spoken (not searched) about some obscure item only to receive ads for said item days later on my phone. It listens. They listen. There are millions of smart phones out there. The ad response is likely some kind of bot. I feel it is unlikely any actual human would listen to mine. Still kind of creepy.
I think this is probably a domestic big data enterprise. the warranty on my car expired, and I was immediately inundated by exactly the sort of thing you’re describing.
not sure what the chinese have to gain in securing info on your chevy.
My truck is 26 years old. I still get these calls!
Who is Michael Hastings?
https://thenewamerican.com/journalist-probing-nsa-and-cia-abuses-dies-in-mysterious-crash/
>You have no privacy.
>Act accordingly.
Amen.
Yes, they paid Biden so they could do so.
I was in Lowes talking to a salesman about a electric wall heater a few months back.
Later that night similar electric wall heaters showed up on my fb feed and various internet sites including Breitbart and the Daily Mail.
I never did any google search regarding the heater on my phone nor computer
See my post #17
First of all, bluetooth has to pair with a device, which means you gave it permission some how.. Turn bluetooth back on, go to your car and hope it connects again. Go to Settings/Bluetooth and find out what device/app paired with your car. Then go and select it and either find the app associated with it and or unpair it or delete it.
I get ads for the very make and model of gaming computer my son recently bought.
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