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Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Sun, 14 May 2017 00:00:39 GMT

I noticed a long time ago that my phone when left unattended would somehow "develop" unfinished drafts in the messages. I would say, Hummmm I didnt start a message to this person why is there a draft and so I would look at it and see something like this EEEeeeeeeee. So this morning my son gets a message from me at 9:04 AM It "said" I am at the movie theater. Well, honestly I didnt text this and the phone was across the room, so whats going on, are we getting hacked or what? Has anybody ever had their tracphone act weird like this?

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

ValuSkr — Sun, 14 May 2017 00:05:02 GMT

Is there anyone else in the house who could be pranking you?

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Sun, 14 May 2017 00:15:05 GMT

Absolutely not and I have a ton of paranormal activity lately. I do not even have the phone on the bed, I was sound asleep.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

Desertdi — Sun, 14 May 2017 04:13:24 GMT

Do you live near AREA 51?

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

Big Sister — Sun, 14 May 2017 08:07:37 GMT

I think ET was trying to call home and he misdialed.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

Marlea Lee — Sun, 14 May 2017 08:56:56 GMT

@blankette

Blankette, my friend who has an LG Sunset TracFone purchased “new” from HSN sometime around November 2015 has been having creepy problems but not with phantom texts like you are having. Her problem is that after having this cell phone for about 8 months, she started to receive many phone calls and voicemails from people whose phone numbers she did not recognize AND they would actually leave voicemails to her cell phone in a language that she could not understand.

As a test, I took her name which is associated with her cell phone number out of my list of saved/known callers on my home phone which has caller ID and had her call me from her TracFone. Her call came through as coming from a person with the name “Che Tran”. So somehow, this Che Tran person had access to her cell phone # all of a sudden and anyone trying to phone Che Tran was actually calling her cell phone and leaving voicemails---which as you all know she has to pay for!!

After reporting this problem to TracFone customer service the problem seems to have gone away with her cell phone, but she told me that she was not given an explanation as to what happened to cause this problem.

I like my TracFone a lot and my personal experience has been great since 2011 with my first TracFone. But if this type of problem ever happens to me, I will drop them like a hot potato.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

x Hedge — Mon, 15 May 2017 22:19:27 GMT

@Desertdi,

"Best Answer !!"

@Marlea Lee ,

Clearly, your friend's phone number was Che Tran's phone number before it was hers.

It's not an uncommon problem, and her story just highlights another reason why most people don't answer calls from unknown callers.

And we block unwanted callers so they never can call a 2nd time, don't we?

But, Why did it start 8 months after she had the number?

Most likely because that's when he got out of jail and started calling people again...and people used the number already in their contacts to call him...which was now your friend's number.

That's not a TracFone issue.

Phone numbers with 'a history' are independent of which service provider you use.

@blankette,

Here's the method for de-haunting a cellphone:

> Learn to keep your thumbs off the screen.

> Type with a stylus, not your fingertips.

> De-activate the microphone.

> Go through all the settings in

1.Messages

2.Accessability

3.Language and Input

Deactivate anything that allows messages to be typed by voice only, or sent at a future time.Watch for the words 'gesture', 'gyro', 'swipe' and 'proximity'.

I had a phone that, when tipped sideways while holding it, would automatically dial phone numbers!

(Gyro feature was easily disabled.)

Some phones are extremely sensitive to gestures or proximity. My phone reacts to fingers or stylus or gesture without having to actually touch the screen.

> if that doesn't work, you can wrap your phone in a 1 gallon freezer bag, bury it 8" deep under a full moon, and standing atop the burial site, softly sing lullabys to it for 10 minutes every night at midnight for 7 nights while wearing your shoes on the 'opposite' feet and chanting 'TracFone...TracFone...TracFone...' for an additional 22 seconds following the last lullaby.

On the 8th night at midnight, this time barefoot, dig up the phone using either a soup spoon or a spurtle, but leave it in the freezer bag until daybreak.

Face North when unzipping the bag and remove the phone with your left hand while wearing your oldest bathrobe and playing a Hank Williams song. (The 'haunting' will become irrisistably attracted to the sound of Hank Williams emotional turmoil and immediately leave your phone.)

Ta-daaaaa!

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Mon, 15 May 2017 00:35:52 GMT

Let me give more details BECAUSE I AM CONCERNED!

At 9:04 AM my son got a message and my google plus photo is on all my messages as those accounts are somehow linked, the message came from my phone and had my profile pic on it and it said " I am at the movie theater". The message was inserted right into our current message thread.

I was sound asleep and my phone was across the room as I do not keep these devices close to me to cut down on EMFS. He actually mentioned it to me later that day. So it could be somewhat dangerous to have somebody sending messages with my account, not sure what to do.

As a side, I have had paranormal activity of late but I do not want to connect this as it might be a hacking issue instead that I should not ignore. I see the phone can schedule messages for the future so I did a test with that just to see how it worked and they look different. Nobody here would mess with me like that anyway. I am so mystified right now, should I call tracphone?

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Mon, 15 May 2017 00:43:26 GMT

It is true I would like my son to take me to the movies, lol...............

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

x Hedge — Mon, 15 May 2017 01:37:52 GMT

" as those accounts are somehow linked..."
Huh?? So every text you send has a photo attached to it?
That means you have your mobile data on all the time, 24/7.
Crazy me, but I think I'd start by turning mobile data off, and unlinking my phone from any other accounts.

Please don't call TracFone . . .

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Wed, 17 May 2017 02:10:31 GMT

Whoaaa....I never set it up this way and if they are connected I am not sure how, but when I got the phone you know how the google thing goes, you have to sign in to it. So, I signed into it and yes, my google profile pic comes up on all my texts. I have not run out of data yet. At the risk of sounding really dumb I am not sure when the tracphone goes into data usage mode, they have said so many things. I never use it to look at the internet much though, I have a tablet for that. Still I am hacked some where, maybe on google then?

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

dooBdoo — Wed, 17 May 2017 04:34:31 GMT

blankette wrote:
Whoaaa....I never set it up this way and if they are connected I am not sure how, but when I got the phone you know how the google thing goes, you have to sign in to it. So, I signed into it and yes, my google profile pic comes up on all my texts. I have not run out of data yet. At the risk of sounding really dumb I am not sure when the tracphone goes into data usage mode, they have said so many things. I never use it to look at the internet much though, I have a tablet for that. Still I am hacked some where, maybe on google then?

@blankette, I am an iPhone user so I'm extremely limited in helping with other phones. Some things are similar, however... and I'm wondering if you have "Contacts" set up on your phone? If so, normally you -- the phone owner/user -- would be listed in the contacts. Also, do you use Gmail on your phone, and that's the reason you said you "have to sign in"? I'm thinking you set up a profile pic on Google, and if it's associated with your name in "Contacts" (which also would be associated with your Gmail on the phone) that's where it's finding the image.

Regarding the strange texts, @x Hedge had plenty of great ideas. I wondered, too, if your phone has preset keyboard shortcuts that might be involved. Or, if the phone itself has some hardware or software problems causing the keyboard (virtual or physical) to be activating itself. I'd love to know the answers to this haunting experience if you find them.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Wed, 17 May 2017 05:30:08 GMT

I sure will keep you posted. I have no pertinent info on or associated with my Google account so I am not ultra concerned. Short cuts sound very plausible, that came into mind , but I wasnt using the phone at all and now I can not even find where they are so it was certainly not a fat finger thing.

A few weeks back somebody in another city sent me a porn pic in the middle of the night. I looked up the # the next day and it was to a male escort service, lol. Nothing I can explain except he misdialed and I disregarded.I just want to be careful of a cyber hack or somebody doing this again to my son. it does lend itself to some possibly dangerous situations. Maybe I should get more concerned.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

mima — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:30:34 GMT

Cell phones can do strange things. My friend and I have eaten out every Friday for years now. Most of the time we meet at Subway at 12. One particular Friday she had cancelled since she was going to be out of town and heading home that day.

About 11:00 I got a text from her that said "I'll meet you at Subway at 12". I figured she had gotten in town early enough to go ahead and eat with me. So I got there at 12. She wasn't there. I waited around for a little while and then called her. She has the in car speakers (blutooth) so she answered my call. She said she was on the road and that she DID NOT text me. She never texts while driving and she would have no reason to text me that since she couldn't possible be there at noon.

The next time I saw her I showed her (on my phone) the text she sent me. It did not show as a sent text from her on her phone. We thought that was really bizarre.

Edited: To make it more clear.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

x Hedge — Wed, 17 May 2017 19:30:10 GMT

Huh? If the text didn't come from your friend's phone, why did you think she'd sent it? Lots of people meet at Subway. Sounds like a funny coincidental wrong number.

Just want to add to the 'haunted' /paranormal line of thought;

I had dozens of lost, delayed, partial, and scrambled texts on one phone that used GSM technology. Texts came in at all hours. Scrambled words. Partial sentences. I received some text more than six months after they had been sent to me. GSM doesn't do well in my area. NO problem of that sort using CDMA technology.
NOT haunted. NOT paranornal.

@blankette, you sound like you have never personalized the settings on your device and apps, and they're still at original settings.That isnt to your advantage.
You also sound like you don't quite know how your phone works, and you're attributing what you don't understand to paranormal action

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

mima — Thu, 18 May 2017 13:34:29 GMT

@x Hedge On my phone it showed the text and it came from my friend's phone. When you get a text, it shows the sender. It did not show up as a sent text if you looked at her phone.

I didn't explain in full I guess. It didn't show that she had sent it by looking at her phone, but it showed she did send it when you looked at my phone.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

x Hedge — Thu, 18 May 2017 18:42:25 GMT

@mima, long-press one finger directly on that text for access to check details. Specifically, if date/ time text was sent coinsides with date/time text was received. A text can be 'delayed'. It could be from another meeting, another week.

There is a way to send a text and make it appear it came from a different phone. Since nothing untoward happened that afternoon I wouldn't sweat it.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

LollySun — Sun, 21 May 2017 10:39:12 GMT

lol, you really live near AREA 51

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Wed, 31 May 2017 06:25:04 GMT

To Hedge- Oh really and just what makes you an authority on any of this. I have paranormal things happen to me on a regular basis that would make a normal person run out the front door so I am not looking for excitment on my phone which I do know how to operate, thank you.

Re: Is my Tracphone haunted?

blankette — Wed, 31 May 2017 06:27:32 GMT

That is odd Mimi, I find that interesting myself. People that just dismiss these things sarcastically just never have anything happen to them so they have to make other people feel silly that are sharing.