08-16-2019 06:00 PM - edited 01-05-2022 08:35 AM
Hi, a pervert has infiltrated my phone - when I browse he repeats everything in distorted form, I can overhear him through the window daily. Please help! I have an iphone 4.
09-18-2019 10:47 AM
08-17-2019 06:27 PM
@CItyDweller wrote:Oh God 😉 OK. But it will take a bit of time before I have new information, I have modest means to fight it.
Close the window for sounds you make. Put up a curtain if he's watching. Rotate the screen away from view if he's watching. Get into your router and change the password and make the wifi hidden. Check your device for any malware/trojans. Turn off remote assistance and remote desktop if Windows. Maybe other OS's have something similar.
08-17-2019 06:22 PM
Oh God 😉 OK. But it will take a bit of time before I have new information, I have modest means to fight it.
08-17-2019 06:01 PM
Thanks, I'll look into it in time.
08-17-2019 06:00 PM
@CItyDweller wrote:I still got a fair number of ideas, it was helpful.
Certainly. And maybe this could go on in The Lounge. I'm definitely interested in this story.
08-17-2019 05:58 PM
I still got a fair number of ideas, it was helpful.
08-17-2019 05:56 PM
Thank you. You're right, they always have a main person who either "believes" you or not; investigation is later.
08-17-2019 05:55 PM
@RossN wrote:@CItyDweller yea that sounds like our wonderful police they think everyting is a joke, well I say get your witnesses collect some evidence wiithout tipping your hand and make the police do something about it I may be wrong but I don't think PM can do much about it
Well there's the hit nail...this is not a Public Mobile thing.
08-17-2019 05:54 PM
@CItyDweller yea that sounds like our wonderful police they think everyting is a joke, well I say get your witnesses collect some evidence wiithout tipping your hand and make the police do something about it I may be wrong but I don't think PM can do much about it
08-17-2019 05:51 PM - edited 08-17-2019 05:52 PM
@CItyDweller wrote:I hear a guy commenting on what I'm surfing and calling about.
Do you have a webcam nearby? I thought earlier you said he was reading what you were browsing. Now he's commenting on it. Or is your device mic on so that he hears you.
Maybe he's in your network and is "sniffing" the data packets.
Maybe he has a telscope.
A test might be to come up with some entirely unique thing to say that you haven't said before or browse and see if what he comes back with.
Of course if he's "watching" then he'll see this.
08-17-2019 05:47 PM
I called 911 and also went to the police. They said "they're not going to knock on doors", "take it up with your provider" and if I "don't know who it is" and "fail to produce a witness and recordings", I should go to the mental hospital. So I've made a recording, but it is low quality, and I've had someone visit as a witness. Everything takes a long time.
08-17-2019 05:38 PM
@CItyDweller hi why have you not called the police do you want this to continue or even worse escalate?
08-17-2019 05:36 PM
I understand it's a little unusual. I've recorded the audio of the guy's voice and will be preparing it, but there is no video.
Basically, I live in an apartment. Through the window, coming from outside, but ultimately from another apartement close by, I hear a guy commenting on what I'm surfing and calling about. He relates this to an interlocutor who's asking him questions - they are talking over a speaker phone. The guy is a self-made vigilante. He breaks into people's accounts and vilinizes immigrants.
08-17-2019 05:27 PM
@CItyDweller can you record this using another phone and upload the video somewhere? I think we're all having a hard time understanding what you're trying to say.
08-17-2019 05:19 PM
@CItyDweller I don't understand what you mean that you hear him out the window do you mean outside?
08-17-2019 05:14 PM
Right! No, it's not that function -- thank you.
08-17-2019 05:12 PM
Good idea, but it's not the case, thanks.
08-16-2019 06:54 PM - edited 08-16-2019 06:56 PM
@CItyDwellerThere is no McAfee for iPhone 4 it is probably too old. Are you sure it is not an automated voice ie the function that read out things for the visually impaired?
08-16-2019 06:38 PM
The police are busy getting less work. I'll try mcAfee, but most security apps no longer work on this phone.
08-16-2019 06:35 PM
I think you're right. But knowing the number they would probably do it again!
08-16-2019 06:34 PM
@CItyDwellerAre you sure you didn't enable the "Speak Screen" feature under Accessibility? it is for people who are visually impaired.
08-16-2019 06:33 PM
Thanks, wouldn't they just do it again?
08-16-2019 06:31 PM
Internet and audio on my cellphone. He is "telling" on what I do on it to a confidante over a speaker phone. He is mentally ill.
08-16-2019 06:09 PM
@CItyDweller wrote:Hi, a pervert has infiltrated my phone - when I browse he repeats everything in distorted form, I can overhear him through the window daily. Please help! I have an iphone 4.
That's a new one I've never heard.
Turn off your data. Turn off your wifi. Connect your phone to your computer. Back up everything you wish to keep. Full factory reset.
This being Apple...I have no certainty if there's a facility to do backups and resets. iTunes?
08-16-2019 06:05 PM
@CItyDwelleriPhone 4 is ancient, just upgrading the phone to something more modern will afford you with better security.
08-16-2019 06:05 PM
Sounds like you have a virus on your phone . Have you tried you using a virus scanner like McAfee ? Maybe you can report them to the police.
08-16-2019 06:04 PM
@CItyDweller hi he has hacked your phone as in your internet? what do you mean you hear him out the window?