How I Escape!!!
Only one guide that i want to add is “Immediately change your SIM once you find out that someone is intercepting your communication. Don’t try experiment with any such interception”
I have been facing a lot of trouble for the last many weeks. It seems as if my Ufone number has been hacked by someone. I have been receiving calls from multiple spoofed numbers which include mobile and land line id’s. My text messages are being intercepted before or after they are delivered to my friends.
The sender (Hacker) has full command over the delivery date, time and telephone number of his choice and he can read my messages and send a reply from any cell number he desires, I am really puzzled. I have sent complaints to the Ufone and PTA authorities through email but they didn’t consider heeding them.
I am a student and my phone usage is purely of domestic origin. I don’t consider myself to be liable for the Legal Interception. Secondly, I am using a handset which doesn’t contain GPRS, infrared or Bluetooth facilities, so the possibilities of phone hack are out of place.
About two months ago I received a call from my sister’s cell number, who teaches at University of Karachi. There was a male on the other end who appeared to be a literate figure with an enchanting voice like most of the operators/service representatives possess. He told me that he had found the cell from the parking area and he was willing to return it back to us. I made two or three subsequent calls on the same (my sister’s) number that and it was received by the same person. But when I contacted my sister at her office, she was amazed over the whole situation since her cell was in her possession. I just couldn’t understand how could that man call me and receive my calls.
The same person made me a call from a local land line number a few days later and introduced himself as a service representative of Ufone. He further asked me to let him know three ufone numbers of my choice that I wished to be included into my free favorite list. I didn’t took him serious this time. But when I tried to recall him the number was dead. What was that?
It is for the last many weeks that I am facing similar problems more frequently. The culprit rings me miss calls from multiple mobile, local and international numbers and sends me messages from multiple mobile numbers which include almost all cellular networks of Pakistan. He has even communicated me through the numbers of my contacts via SMS. Whenever one of my contact makes me call or I call him/her during the call an SMS comes from the same number with wordings as, ”KEUN TANGG KARTAY HO ISAY.BOHAT ACHA LAGTA HAY MUJHAY PARESHAN KAR K” etc.. I am sure he can even listen our conversation since short after disconnecting the call I receive messages from the same number that are relevant to the course of the conversation. Let me tell you that most of the spoofed mobile and landline numbers belong to the Punjab region. I really am fed up of this situation and I have settled to terminate the use of a cell phone .This is a ruthless practice of Harassment and no one is there to rescue the victims. I am sure that I am not alone having such complaints. But I am the one who have raised my voice in pursuit of guidance and security.
A good number of customers, after loading their pre-paid Mobilink Jazz cards in the first week of May, found Rs100 to 1,200 balance consumed without being used the very next morning. They immediately approached franchised outlets and the company’s local offices but to no avail.
In the second week of the month, those who had re-loaded their balance in April lost some amount in the same fashion. When the customers again visited the company offices, they were advised to lodge their complaints with the Mobilink helpline or the head office. “You must have dialled someone in the UK or Saudi Arabia,” was the reply complainants got from the helpline.
Although complaints are pouring in from the entire district, Rahim Yar Khan and Khanpur are the worst-hit towns. Some complaints were also reported from Bahawalpur and Lodhran.
While no responsible official was ready to speak on record, a company employee gave out that someone had developed a ‘Super SIM’ at Khanpur, a nearby town, which could hack the company’s pre-paid balance software and consume the balance of any customer.
He claimed that the ‘Super SIM’ was on sale for Rs2,000 in the market. In the beginning, the device was sold to acquaintances at some shops, especially PCO owners, in Khanpur and Rahim Yar Khan. Now it was being sold rather freely.
When the Super SIM, also know as ‘six-in-one’, is inserted in a mobile set, it is hooked up to the Mobilink network after two to five attempts. Several attempts at *111# can lead the user to any balance of another customer. When the balance is displayed, the user has to dial his required number in 30 seconds to stay connected to the Mobilink network. Once connected, one can talk as long as the balance permits.
A customer of Khanpur said the Super Sim was now available there by the name of ‘Magic SIM’ at Rs1,000 each.
Mian Cable Network, Link World Mobile shop and Global Mobile shop were selling these SIMs through selected salesmen. He said several people of Faisalabad and Karachi had also purchased this device from Khanpur.
Rahim Yar Khan’s Mobilink zonal manager Qazi Nadeem Ahmad, who admitted receiving complaints, sought time to respond to Dawn’s queries, but did not attend calls afterwards. Shahid Naeem, the company’s franchise representative, said all complaints had been referred to the head office but it had failed to address the problem.
A company spokesman in Islamabad said the customers had been advised to contact the Nine City Customer Centre in Rahim Yar Khan. He said all grievances would be redressed.
Another company official said the Super SIM could hack the software of any cell phone operator and that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority should act swiftly.
The PTA, on the other hand, was not aware what was going on in Rahim Yar Khan. A senior official based in Islamabad said no body had reported this to the PTA so far.
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