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Subject Has Anyone Else Had This Happen to Them? Is it NSA, FBI or DHS?

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I may be able to help with this one.  I had that free app on my Android.  It's called "Family Locator" and is powered by Life360, and that's the name their texts and their emails come in as.

When you get the app, you can enter the phone numbers of your family and they will get a text invite just like the one you posted.  When they accept the invite, then you can locate their phone on a map but not in real time unless you pay to upgrade the free app.  If you use the free version, the data is about 15 minutes delayed or so.

Someone probably mistyped and entered your phone number for an invite.  Since it's a free app, I am sure lots of people have it and the changes of a misdial entry is not remote.

I would just delete anything you get that is from people you don't want tracking you.  I am afraid that since you replied to the text, it may have "accepted" the invitation.

I decided a few months ago that I don't trust such apps and I disabled the satellite location feature on my phone.  So now I can't be tracked by others (but the government can do whatever they want).

If the government wanted to track you, they wouldn't send you invites through text, they'd would just track you.  So I am pretty sure some other user just fat-fingered in your number for an invite to someone else.
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Original Message I received a text message on my mobile phone last night from a number I didn't know. Here is the message I got-

Hi (my first name, yes they knew it), Jaz wants you to join their Life360 private safety network. Join here to keep each other safe: [link to www.life360.com]

I replied back to number that texted me with...sorry, I don't know any "jaz". Then I received this automated reply-

This phone number is part of the life360 emergency notification system. To learn more please go to www.life360.com.

So, I go to life360 and find out that it is an app for android phones that allow people to set up networks and track each other in real time. It will allow others in the network to "ping me" and see exactly where I am anytime they want to, and I could do the same to them. Now, the puzzling thing to me is that I really don't know anyone who goes by the name Jaz. No one that I know has ever asked me or talked to me about being in any kind of network like this. Is this some kind of scam, or am I being tracked by one of the alphabet agencies?

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