Re: Why did those credit managers start to burn my phone after I visited bank?

[Leo Famulari]

It's not related to Guix, but places like retail shops, banks, etc host
phone location tracking equipment that is used to target advertising.

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 11:33:10AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> Hello, dear Guix hackers! I want to understand how they could get my phone 
> number.
> 
> Last week I've visited a bank and spent there an hour waiting they make a 
> payment to custom.
> I had Redmi Mi 9T smartphone in my hands, Android 10 QKQ 1.190825.002,
> MIUI Global 11.0.4 Stable 11.0.4.0 (QFJMIXM)
> 
> Waiting in the bank, I uploaded one video on YouTube channel on which
> my phone is in the contacts.
> 4g connection was so slow that I spent time waiting percent by percent of 
> uploading.
> 
> I use mobile operator Beeline. In Russia I have no any operator I can believe,
> but this is less problematic from all, cause its managers are not oligarchs.
> 
> After two hours I came back home I received two calls from different
> money credit companies
> (just like "fast money", "take money and go away that way")
> and one SMS from another company.
> 
> And the next day three calls more and two SMS with offers of money credit.
> 
> Those were robots autocallers.
> 
> I'd never used that phone number where I've got calls, and never took credits,
> never gave that my phone number anywhere
> (cause I usually use another phone number).
> 
> This case shows not free software and not free hardware adds bothers.
> 
> This may be so:
> 
> 1) They can track phones with Geo data (but I have switched off Geo location)
> 2) They may invade bank workers phones with viruses that
> connect with clients phones, get clients phone numbers and send this info.
> 3) They may track mobile operator data (4g) from antennas
> 4) Also the same mobile operator may sell info which client locate near that
> antenna near the bank
> 5) May be some of my applications does track me.
> 
> How do you think?
> 
> Do you use Telegram, Whatsapp?
> 
> Is it comfortable to use jami, tox chat?