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eddie7:
By Damilola Ojo http://nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng/4-clear-signs-your-phone-was-hacked/

With the rising vice of hacking in our society, it is important to know about some clear signs that can help you discern if your phone has been tampered with in any way. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 clear signs your phone was hacked.

Your Phone Suddenly Reboots Itself

This can be caused by two main things. The first is that your phone might be experiencing some performance issues, a system breakdown of some sort. The second is that it might of course have been hacked and the sudden reboot is a consequence of your phone being tapped. Other signs that accompany your phone’s sudden reboot is your phone also suddenly dialing numbers and starting applications on its own.

 

Noises or Echos During Your Calls

If you all of a sudden start to hear noises or echos during your calls, and this has never happened when you’re either calling those number or making the calls at that location, your phone might have been hacked and your calls are probably being monitored or listened in on.

 

Appearance of Mysterious Apps

You can all of sudden notice apps on your phone you don’t remember installing, while this might mean that a friend or relative might have installed it without permission, if you can’t point to anyone of those who have access to your phone as the one responsible for installing the app, then you can at that point consider that your phone might have been hacked. Hackers can plant apps on phones to snoop, perform actions on their behalf, explore calendars, access GPS etc. These ‘hacker apps’ can be even be hidden on your phone and be running in the background, this is why you might notice a rapidly decreasing battery life or your phone getting warm out of the blue without you making calls with it or working with it in anyway. To deal with this, it is best to avoid downloading just any kind of app, especially those that come with pop-up ads.

 

Strange Texts

If you notice strange SMS text messages on your phone or texts that appear as a single square or other strange characters, that might be an attempt by hackers to download spyware or malware onto your device. You should take note of this and be
careful of it.

SOLUTION PLEASE

Josephjnr:
Who wan even hack my phone self? E tey wen I comment for nairaland o. Hack my phone and the only thing wen u go the see na "You just withdrew your remaining 500naira in your bank account."

u no knw say 5h na big money wen u dey brokelyn

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NaoSlay:

My phone is greatly protected both offline and online, I receive various security threat due to my work which involves files. So the security is upgraded automatically by the security app.

which app??

Burgerlomo:
Abeg wetin be the way forward because I dey receive some strange text. Gracias

Back up your dates first, flash the phone and restore your dates back then you are good to go

izzy4shizzy:
My phone is protected by the blood of jesus
Hacking is not authorized.

Mtchew! I guess you are joking tho.

That means my phone is hacked already

Waste of time

Ghostmode2two:
SOLUTION PLEASE

Among so many processes, you can try

https://m.wikihow.com/Prevent-Hacking
Or

https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2015/10/10-ways-to-protect-against-hackers/
Or better still, make use of Google or other search engines

what if your GPS keeps coming on even after putting it off? once data is on or you're making a call?

Jerrypolo:
Nice.

I have experienced few of the mentioned. Who's tryna spy on me?.

Village people on guard show out

Litblogger:
Features of a CIA movie

Wait till your atm card is cloned and your bank account is drained dry only then you will grip your bank managers tie, now them de teach u, u de form baba salla

Diso60090:
Village people on guard show out

Village people. But I bought goat for you people for the new year naw?.
What do you want?.

any hacker wey hack naija phone
juz dey waste time.
nothing like boa
chase
paypal
btc sef don hard based on 2fas
malware
spyware
ransom
keylogger
all dat shitt dont work here in naija

Quite informative article

Really

I would also add pop-up ads that come out of nowhere. This sort of hacking loads smartphones with adware (ads that behave like viruses).

eddie7:
By Damilola Ojo http://nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng/4-clear-signs-your-phone-was-hacked/

With the rising vice of hacking in our society, it is important to know about some clear signs that can help you discern if your phone has been tampered with in any way. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 clear signs your phone was hacked.

Your Phone Suddenly Reboots Itself

This can be caused by two main things. The first is that your phone might be experiencing some performance issues, a system breakdown of some sort. The second is that it might of course have been hacked and the sudden reboot is a consequence of your phone being tapped. Other signs that accompany your phone’s sudden reboot is your phone also suddenly dialing numbers and starting applications on its own.

 

Noises or Echos During Your Calls

If you all of a sudden start to hear noises or echos during your calls, and this has never happened when you’re either calling those number or making the calls at that location, your phone might have been hacked and your calls are probably being monitored or listened in on.

 

Appearance of Mysterious Apps

You can all of sudden notice apps on your phone you don’t remember installing, while this might mean that a friend or relative might have installed it without permission, if you can’t point to anyone of those who have access to your phone as the one responsible for installing the app, then you can at that point consider that your phone might have been hacked. Hackers can plant apps on phones to snoop, perform actions on their behalf, explore calendars, access GPS etc. These ‘hacker apps’ can be even be hidden on your phone and be running in the background, this is why you might notice a rapidly decreasing battery life or your phone getting warm out of the blue without you making calls with it or working with it in anyway. To deal with this, it is best to avoid downloading just any kind of app, especially those that come with pop-up ads.

 

Strange Texts

If you notice strange SMS text messages on your phone or texts that appear as a single square or other strange characters, that might be an attempt by hackers to download spyware or malware onto your device. You should take note of this and be
careful of it.

Thankyou.what is the solution.

sinaj:
u no knw say 5h na big money wen u dey brokelyn

Funny but na true talk.

stanliwise:
Mtchew! I guess you are joking tho.

No hiss too much, But still Jesus blood get plenty power

validman7:
op, how do we stop it or what's the way out?

cos most of the things u wrote up there do happen with my phone, especially downloading strange apps, the stuff normally subscribes to any package from my network provider.. drains my credit.

i normally turn of "installation of apps from unknown source", but after sometimes it turns on itself.

i really need a way out...

Factory Reset

that's the best solution.

pls o..i changd my sim frm my phone cos the battery went off into my small android fone n i got a msg from my the same sim(number) stating the fone type and my sim is changed n dat if im the one that change it that i should ignore the message with this name LEOMASTER in a bolded bracket at the end of the message..pls weytin e mean o?

chymer:
Factory Reset
that's the best solution.

I have done that.. after sometime, it started again.

eddie7:
By Damilola Ojo http://nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng/4-clear-signs-your-phone-was-hacked/

With the rising vice of hacking in our society, it is important to know about some clear signs that can help you discern if your phone has been tampered with in any way. Jumia Travel, the leading online travel agency, shares 4 clear signs your phone was hacked.

Your Phone Suddenly Reboots Itself

This can be caused by two main things. The first is that your phone might be experiencing some performance issues, a system breakdown of some sort. The second is that it might of course have been hacked and the sudden reboot is a consequence of your phone being tapped. Other signs that accompany your phone’s sudden reboot is your phone also suddenly dialing numbers and starting applications on its own.

 

Noises or Echos During Your Calls

If you all of a sudden start to hear noises or echos during your calls, and this has never happened when you’re either calling those number or making the calls at that location, your phone might have been hacked and your calls are probably being monitored or listened in on.

 

Appearance of Mysterious Apps

You can all of sudden notice apps on your phone you don’t remember installing, while this might mean that a friend or relative might have installed it without permission, if you can’t point to anyone of those who have access to your phone as the one responsible for installing the app, then you can at that point consider that your phone might have been hacked. Hackers can plant apps on phones to snoop, perform actions on their behalf, explore calendars, access GPS etc. These ‘hacker apps’ can be even be hidden on your phone and be running in the background, this is why you might notice a rapidly decreasing battery life or your phone getting warm out of the blue without you making calls with it or working with it in anyway. To deal with this, it is best to avoid downloading just any kind of app, especially those that come with pop-up ads.

 

Strange Texts

If you notice strange SMS text messages on your phone or texts that appear as a single square or other strange characters, that might be an attempt by hackers to download spyware or malware onto your device. You should take note of this and be
careful of it.

tnx very educative...frankly speaking I was being a victim till now that I talk my 2 phone WhatsApp number was being hacked dnt know wat to do can't access WhatsApp anymore... I was completely logged out... Any way out bro?