Jamin43

I saw a news story a week or two ago re: cloning ( or something like it ) where a s/w bug can be put on your phone and another person could get all your text messages - listen to your phone calls - Turn on your speaker phone function when you're not even using your phone to listen to you speaking in proxmity of the phone.

It was relatively inexpensive and easy to get the software - but to install it - the person needed to have physical access to your phone.

Check out this link to spy phone Website

http://www.thespyshop.ws/spyphonesoftware.html#sp

vinnie107

Its not to difficult to clone a phone. I would suggest you reset everything including password, recovery questions the lot. Just for peace of mind.

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ukulele_ninja

I would check to make sure that he hasnt just forwarded your email to his or something.

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Cromewell

I know that it's very hard to clone a SIM now, I'm not sure about CDMA though. Since you are on Bell, you have a CDMA phone with no SIM. Videotron uses a GSM network and his phone will have a SIM card. So I'm fairly sure this isn't a cloning issue anyway.

If he's receiving your emails then it's entirely possible that he has gotten into your email account and that it's nothing related to your phone. I find it unlikely that he is 'intercepting' messages from your phone.

If you are worried about something loaded on your phone (I doubt this is the case but it's an easy fix) it's pretty easy to wipe and reload a BlackBerry. You should be able to back up your messages and everything as well.

Of all the possibilities, I'd say the most likely is that he has access to your email account.

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LauraA

Thank-you to all of you for your kindness to help me solve this problem !

1. My ex did not tell me explicitely that he is spying on my e-mails: he just insinuates things, i.e. "Did you write to X today?" or "Did you get an e-mail from Y lately?" while there is no way he should know about when or how often I write to these persons or they write to me ! I feel he does it purposefully to test me .

2. He never had long access to my Blackberry (but certainly 5 or 10 minutes here and there). However, he is rather technologically impaired, so I doubt he would have cloned my phone.

3. I think I once entered my e-mail account from his computer, and typed in my unforgivably long, difficult, and "un-guessable" password. Perhaps he could use my password again. That is the only instance that I remember placing myself in a vulnerable position, lately. Therefore, I guess Cromewell was probably on the right path when he said :

I imagine that changing my password would suffice to correct the problem? I this is not the case, please let me know. I still will try to "wipe" my phone: I have tons of messages there and it takes forever to delete them! Unless one of you geniuses (no sarcasm here, just full admiration) can suggest a way to erase messages faster.

Take care and THANK-YOU FOR ALL YOUR BRILLIANT ADVICE AND IDEAS !!!

Cromewell

Yes, changing your password and 'secret question' if you have one should be enough. You may want to scan your PC for keyloggers and such first.

It shouldn't take too long to erase. The last time I erased and reloaded the OS and other software it took about 20-30 min. If you have set a password, entering it wrong 10 times should wipe all messages but if you are reloading the handhelp software anyway you might as well use the application loader to erase everything.

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Cromewell

Just to add a little more to this, if you want to wipe your phone anyway it's easy to do. Load up BlackBerry Desktop Manager and download a new version of the software and update your phone. You can find all of the software here: https://www.blackberry.com/Downloads...646D38BC2145CA

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tlarkin

It is not hard to actually clone a SIM, but it does require a device to do so. I have a SIM cloner that an ex mobile phone company employee gave me and you can buy them online. It takes seconds to clone a SIM after you take it out and put it in the cloner.

I know that seems like a lot of work and maybe far fetched but if you were determined to do so, it is not that hard. google searching would show you guides and where to buy.

CDMA phones are even easier to clone. I once cloned a sprint phone in a matter of a few minutes but it does require physical access.

If she left her phone on say the coffee table for even 5 minutes that would be enough time to load hijack software onto the phone.

The only way to be 100% sure that your phone is safe is to wipe it and reload it and change all your passwords.

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PohTayToez

Sorry, you're wrong on several points. First, like I said in my first post, SIM cloning is much harder since they upgraded the security on them several years ago. Also, even on the older cards, brute forcing the key took hours, sometimes days.

Secondly, as I've brought up before as well, cloning would not give you access to any email accounts being used on that phone. To set up a phone for email, you have to enter in all of the account information. Cloning the ESN or SIM would not magically load all of the account information into the new phone.

Cromewell

It would allow eavesdropping and you would miss calls if the tower found the cloned phone first. I haven't dealt with cloned phones with push email services so I don't know what would get forwarded where.

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