But they are scared of suspending Wike

Then, I realised that a hacker was attempting to hack into my accounts by intercepting my messages, and automatically sending messages from my phone to his phone lines.


It didn't just stop there. Throughout the rest of that evening till the next day, my Globacom SIM card kept on sending SMS automatically. When it had finished depleting the account balance/airtime on the SIM card and no further SMS could be sent from that line, it switched over to sending messages from my second line, which is the SIM card on the first slot in my phone (MTN).

It was so persistent that it would send between 1-2 text messages from the MTN line within an interval of 5 minutes.


I began to search on Google for ways to stop sending messages from my phone lines automatically but to no avail. All the answers I found on the internet were addressing the issue of Android phones sending messages to a caller automatically when you didn't answer the call (e.g. I'm busy, call me later, etc).

When I realized I couldn't find the answer on the internet, I had to find a way to prevent the hacker from forwarding messages and automatically sending texts from my phone to his lines. I realized that if nothing was done, this hacker may be able to send sensitive data like verification codes, OTPs and tokens from my phone lines to his.


Perhaps that's the new way in which hackers are now hacking into people's accounts as people are now wiser and the older method of calling their victims to request for an OTP or verification code sent to their phones while pretending to be a customer care agent were no longer working for them (at least not with everybody. Many people especially those who have fallen victim once are aware of this trick).

While this is even truly the method hackers are using now is this. For most online accounts, an OTP must be entered back when a user wants to login from a new device; sometimes, also from a new location for the first time. One of the ways to determine that it's really the real account owner who is trying to gain access into the account is for him/her to enter back the OTP which is automatically generated by the system back to the online platform which may be a website, an app, etc.

Upon entering back the OTP correctly, it is then confirmed that's it's truly the user, because the user had previously provided and verified their phone number (sometimes,email address) on the system/website or application.

For hackers to successfully be able to hack into your account, they need to find a way to lay hold on the token or OTP which is generated by the service or system to your phone. Hence if you don't find a way to stop the automatic messages from sending from your phone, you are at the risk of not just spending your airtime balance for nothing, but more seriously data leak and privacy compromise. Your personal and private information would no longer be secret and private as they would be randomly sent from your phone to the hackers phone or computer automatically.

So how do you stop it when you've realized it?

Like I said, I wasn't able to find any suitable solution online. Hence, I started seeking out my own ways to solve it.

The first thing I did actually stopped it.

How I stopped it was to go into the message settings, and alter the message centre number. Not so fast. I didn't change anything much in there. I simply added a '1' after the last digit of my message centre numbers.

How does this work?

For your SIM to be a able to send a text message from your phone to another phone, it needs a message centre number which should be correct. Your carrier or mobile network provider has a unique message centre through which your Short Messaging is routed. If the message centre number is incorrect, you will not be able to send SMS messages from your phone.

If your phone uses three SIM cards, there would be three message centre numbers that correspond to each of the SIM cards on your device. Since my phone uses two SIM cards, I affixed '1' after the last digit of each message centre number. It must not necessarily be '1'. It could be '0', or any other figure. It's just a way of making the message centre number incorrect.

Here is what you must note before using this method.


This may not be a permanent solution but offers a quick fix to the issue. Hence, you need to take note of the following:

Every time you have to send a text message, you need to manually remember to remove the figure you added behind the last digit of the message centre number.

Do not alter the message centre number very much. Only add or remove a digit to or from a location you can easily remember later. Either from the end or beginning. Don't go and add digits in the center or in-between digits because you may not know exactly where you added it later on.


If this were not to have worked for me, the next thing I would have done would be to contact the customer service for my phone lines, which should be able to run a check on my lines and stop the automatic message sending. This is because the problem is a phone line issue; definitely not an issue with the phone the SIM card is inserted in. Hence, even if you removed the SIM card from your android phone and insert it in a small torchlight phone or an iPhone. That wouldn't stop the automatic sending of messages from your phone line.

Why I find that altering the message centre number is the best solution for me is because, personally, I would be able to change the message centre number back to the correct one each time I need to send a message. I didn't change anything much after all. I'd just delete the last digit and it would be correct again.

Secondly, accessing the message centre number is simple and straight forward. To do so, click on Settings in your messaging application, scroll to Text Message Settings (SMS) and click on it, then open Message Centre Number and change it.

The last reason why I prefer this method is because no matter what the hacker does, be cannot make the SIM card to send messages automatically from the phone when the message centre number is incorrect. But the hacker could still hack back a SIM card to begin sending text messages automatically if the other method was used.

Another method that could stop the hacker is totally blocking their lines. This will work if you managed to save the phone number(s) the messages are being sent to. I got this idea later, so I didn't remember to save the phone numbers when I received the sent message pop up notification. The hacker may be routing your messages to more than one line. In this case, you need to block your phone sending SMS to those lines entirely.


This wraps it up. Everybody may not be techie and some people may not want to dabble into changing things every now and then when they wish to send a message. Hence, I have provided at least three (3) methods you can use to block or stop the automatic sending of messages from your phone line to other phone lines in this post.

Because this worked for me, I decided to share the method I used to help other people who might be facing the same issue, more so that I didn't find anyone provide a solution to it on the internet.

I hope this helps you stop the hacker from doing a lot of damages to you, your accounts, money, etc.

Bongadu:
If na me be Dave , I don fork that reporter put Jara

During a recent visit to commiserating with the victims of the Eleme fire incident at Eleme section of the East-West Road, Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi once again became dramatic when a female reporter asked him to answer a question in pidgin. In response, the minister stated: “I no sabi speak pidgin; I no go night school.”
His response has sparked a wave of discussions across various platforms
Recall that the Minister also went dramatic with Arise News correspondent, Laila Johnson-Salami during a stakeholders engagement on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway project in Lagos on Wednesday during the Q&A session when Laila grabbed the microphone to ask Mr Umahi about Environmental Impact Assessment report for the project. Shortly after the journalist introduced herself and was about asking her question, Mr Umahi interjected saying ; "Sister, I was raised in the village. I no de hear 'phoney' ", in an attempt to stop the journalist from proceeding with her question.
It is not clear why the minister decides to play up such drama to intimidate journalists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CH1xqE4sEc?si=RYTPCn5ulM5b3Yfk

Lol

Objectivist04:
That is where Peter Obi is different, despite his beef with Obiano, the issue of probe never came up because there is nothing to probe

In as much as I am not entirely ok with him leadership style, he remains one of the cleanest former governor in this country

So you mean Akwa ibom state governor should probe Cross River state former governor

Abeg go back and study ur states and capital

Phed

obinna58:
You’ll have to bring about 1000 of to him to match oshimen value

Which value?

Even if you double the goal post, Oshimen won't still hit target

Make Oshimen go learn from Nsue of Equatorial Guinea how to strike ball

Simon should be banned from starting any game for us

Abeg make referee no dash super chickens any penalty today, even if dem break person leg..
Make them score the way other teams dey score

If you watch teams like Morocco, Ghana, Senegal or even Cape verde play, u'll conclude that we're not going anywhere.

If we just try enter knockout stage, we go just dey defend, dey expect to win for penalties.

Whenever a southerner is in power, bombs dey always fly left, right and center

Hope you didn't snap with Uzoho?

rentAcock:
The average Nigerian is gullible. The before picture is photoshopped. See how blurry the wound section is compared to the healthy part of her leg. Also notice how there's barely any scar tissue or mark on her foot. After a deep tissue damage like that, even plastic surgery cannot replace it back to such a pristine condition as if nothing happened. Very soon, OP will start selling you guys the so called "traditional" medicine he used to clone his sister's leg.

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KosiGee:
@Acidosis…

I have to tag the above name as I went back to the previous thread to read some of the comments.

Whatever alternative medical intervention that op’s sister went through should be studied, researched and improved on. This is amazing. For a doubting Thomas like me, I’m glad to be disappointed. If I had commented on the previous thread of 2021, I would’ve discouraged any effort to patronise any church or trado-medicine and I would’ve called the op silly for even contemplating taking his sister to traditional medical practice.

The transformation is amazing. I still think that the patient could benefit from orthodox medicine. The surface of the wound needs plastic surgery and it hasn’t healed properly. Care is advised as the surface is still vulnerable and there’s still risk of serious infection. Whatever organic herbs, plant roots antibiotics that were administered should be adhered to till the legs is healed, the mid foot and toes are filled with fluid still. I know it’d sound crazy telling them to go to hospital. I don’t think this intervention alone is enough.

All the best wishes to this lady.

We still have plans of taking her to the hospital when we have enough money to foot the bills. Thanks for your advice.

PrinceofSarcasm:
Is it better or worse?

Better





This is what it looked like before.
https://www.nairaland.com/6789104/wound-ever-heal-graphic-picture#106497251

Link to previous thread: https://www.nairaland.com/6789104/wound-ever-heal-graphic-picture#106497251

So after my sister insisted that she would not go to the hospital to avoid amputation, we decided to respect her choice and allow her continue with the traditional medicine.
This is the state of her leg two years later.

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oxypressPlus:


What you can do to save the leg:
If the toes are still moving then there is life down to the toes.

If any dead bones they need to be removed.

The wound can heal with hyperbaric oxygen therapy --hbot.

The blocked blood flow caused the tissues to die.
To heal the wound you need high dose Oxygen -hbot to do the magic.
If oxygen does not get to the swollen leg the wound will continue to expand.

Facilities with hbot can easily treat the wound
Try hbot before giving up on the wound.
If there is any scan or xray report of the bones they can rule out osteonechrosis.
If you are interested we can help.

We are HBOT PROVIDERS.

The toe is still moving cos she still walk on her own.

What's the cost of the HBOT, and what's the guarantee?

So Lagos can't even build one world class stadium.. Na wa o

This life ehn... When we were advising Op on what to use, we mentioned the names o.. E don reach OP turn now, baba don claim say e no wan advertise any product

theNaughtyPope:
You see my issues with Christianity in Nigeria? Simple issue that would have been diagnosed and maybe given prescription, you took it church and the con pastor used your sister's leg to do trial and error treatment.

Na amputation remain, or a miracle from Pastor Lazarus of Lord's Chosen

The treatment wasn't done in church. Someone took her to where they do native treatment

Bola146:
Find out what really happened to it first please. If she doesn't have high BP or diabetes

She just woke up one day and noticed her leg was swollen

illicit:
Taking wound to church

She took swollen leg to church, not the wound

My sister's leg started swelling up last year November, when she went to church she was told that they kept some diabolical stuff for her in her husband's place. Since then we've spent over 500k on native treatment yet the wound keeps deteriorating everyday and small maggots are coming out from it. 
We suggested she visit the hospital, but she is scared they'll opt for amputation.

Please is there any possibility of the wound healing?

Ayodele951:
Drop pics and full spec.

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KINGreignn:
No pictures?

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