What to do if somebody is tapping on your phoneline??
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Yeah. That's the best way to check. But make sure you know how to put back. I don't know how to repair phones.Originally posted by shade343:Hmm...you mean pry open everything? But All my phone sets comes from the shops and not through 3rd party dealers.... -
Very rich to get this device. Actually if you want to try, use a normal magnet. But will damage telephone.Originally posted by LazerLordz:there's something called a mobile phone.
And you can get something that detects variations in magnetic or electrical fields, something people use to detect cables underground.
Anyway, short term solution, if you hear the click sound again, blow a whistle into it.
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If you really feel insecure about it, call up Singtel or call the NPC.
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Well what to do? Im a victim of the council's politicking.Originally posted by ditzy:You are a VVVIP, every conversation made on the phone by your family and you is damn important, down to the last syllable. 
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And once again, I cant keep using handphones. Its not going to help in the long run. I dont have free outgoing calls.
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They maybe monitoring your handphone signal...so that where ever you go they can track you
Maybe you are very rich to buy a lot of shares and they want insider info -
Say that you're a murderer on the run. Let the eavesdropper hear it and be scared...hehe
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No lah, Its about MC politics. Me a victim...Originally posted by maggot:They maybe monitoring your handphone signal...so that where ever you go they can track you
Maybe you are very rich to buy a lot of shares and they want insider info -
Haiz... tell you mai K poh liao...Originally posted by shade343:No lah, Its about MC politics. Me a victim... -
What is MC?Originally posted by shade343:No lah, Its about MC politics. Me a victim... 
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Does very very very irritating person's conversation that important?Originally posted by ditzy:You are a VVVIP, every conversation made on the phone by your family and you is damn important, down to the last syllable. -
Management council.Originally posted by maggot:What is MC? -
Tell them you are leaving and going to concentrate on your studies and tell them to leave you aloneOriginally posted by shade343:Management council. -
mayb fone spoil..
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Could be line problem actually.Originally posted by tt3:mayb fone spoil.. -
This is a question that seems to be asked a lot in the comments section so here's my pitiful attempt to answer it.
First of all, some people will tell you that there's a phone number you can call that will tell you if your phone is tapped. People email these numbers to me all the time. They say that you call it and you'll hear a contant tone. If the tone does a certain thing, your phone is tapped and if it does something else, your phone isn't tapped. This is stupid. Those tones are called "sweep tones" and they're used by phone company technicians. They have nothing to do with tapping anyone's phone. If someone tries to tell you that they have a number that detects taps, hit them. Hard.
The best way to detect a physical tap on your own line is to carefully inspect every inch of phone wire in your home. Start from the outside, where the phone line comes from the pole. Open up your grey TNI box and look for anything unusual inside. You can also open up the "restricted" side of the box and check in there. It requires a special alan wrech that you can probably find at your hardware store. After inspecting the outside, go back inside and figure out where the lines are coming from that box into the house. If you have a basement, it's probably there. Follow every wire, noting anything suspicious. Then look closely at every telephone in your house and trace the wiring back into the wall. Obviously some wires are going to be run through walls and it's up to you if you want to start busting into the walls.
So you didn't find anything? Well there's still a few things to consider. What if the person who's tapped your phone has actually hidden the tap inside one of the phones? Some of the more advanced taps can be very small and easily fit inside a phone. It's not very hard to use a screwdriver and take apart your phones. If you're not comfortable taking things apart, chances are that you know somebody who is. Be sure to take apart both the base of the phone and the handset.
If you live in an apartment building, your neighbors could have access to your phone lines. If they know where the phone jacks on your side are located, they could punch through their own walls and hook up an extension jack in their own apartment. From this extension they could make free long distance calls or they could put a tap on your line and listen to all of your calls. Also, in most apartment buildings all of the phone lines come into one central place from the telephone poles. From there, the lines are run into each apartment unit. At that central location, a tenant could simply add a few wires running from his line to yours and they'd have access to your line. Most phone cables have four wires inside of them - red, green, yellow and black. If you have one phone line, you're probably just using the red and green. The yellow and black wires don't do anything. A neighbor in your apartment could hook YOUR red and green wires to HIS yellow and black wires which would create a second line in his apartment. Which would be YOUR line. If you think this is happening, you could ask the phone company to come and check your lines. You could even claim that you've picked up your phone before and somebody has been on it so they would know what they're looking for.
One last scenario - you know those green rectangular phone company boxes you see out in the streets and in back yards? The ones by your house contain your phone lines and probably 100 or so other phone lines of neighbors. People have been known to open up these boxes and hook their own phone into them. It's easier than you would think for a person to figure out which of the lines in these boxes are yours. They could even do the yellow-black wires red-green wires trick to create an extension of your phone in their house. Even if their house is several blocks away!
With each phone device you hook to a phone line, you draw a little more voltage from that phone line. Radio Shack used to sell "phone tap detectors" that would detect these extra draws in voltage. Apparently it could tell the difference between one phone being picked up and two phones being picked up so you would know if someone is listening in on an extension. I think this would also work in detecting a physical tap on your line. Unfortunately Radio Shack doesn't sell this product anymore so I can't buy one and test it out. But maybe a web search could find another company that sells the same thing.
Finally, there are government taps. If you're a bad person and the government thinks you need a tap on your line, they can do it and you won't be able to detect it. It's done from the phone company's switch and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. They can tap your cell phone calls the same way. Your only way to escape government phone taps is to go use a pay phone or a prepaid cellular phone. And stop doing illegal things that makes the government tap your phone, you damn criminal. -
could be the ISD... Are you a terrorist?
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He terrorises in DOTA.Originally posted by banzie:could be the ISD... Are you a terrorist? -
Originally posted by LazerLordz:He terrorises in DOTA.
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To really find out whether your phone line is being tapped, purposely talk about building a bomb, and that you have all the necessary ingredients and where you intend to bomb. Specify a date, then go there.
On that day at that location, if you get swamped by special agents and squads, then you are trully being tapped. -
Originally posted by ShutterBug:To really find out whether your phone line is being tapped, purposely talk about building a bomb, and that you have all the necessary ingredients and where you intend to bomb. Specify a date, then go there.
On that day at that location, if you get swamped by special agents and squads, then you are trully being tapped.
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shiok. i like this kind of situations. call me childish or what but if i were you. i would most probably talk rot to people about your suspect. Say all the bad and untrue things about him and criticise him like no tommorow. Scold his parents etc. Then the next time i see him..... hehehehe i will know if he is tapping or not.
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tap....u really really must be a VVVIP!...as stated earlier..
haha....
well..if u are not a vip nor a terrorist..
then ..why are u scared of..
or u are an active phone sex caller
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what big business are u doing why are people tapping into your phone line ?
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Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:Does very very very irritating person's conversation that important?