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Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!

 
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:03 PM
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Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
Hello Everyone,
My mom has a neighbor that seems to know everything we talk about on the phone. We even set up a conversation where my mom said she was moving and the next couple of days, the neighbor told my mom she was glad she was moving!
We hear clicks on the phone while we are talking.
The phone company has been out multiple times to check wires and internal wiring.

Changed to different company, and the same. The phone company reported 86 hang ups in a 20 hour period.
My mother is older and not on the phone that much.
She has land lines and digital cordless phones.

Any help would be appreciated. She feels so violated. This has been going on for a few years now!
Thank you for any ideas or help!
TurkeyTots

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09/28/2011 11:04 PM
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Certain sets of headphones can pick up cordless phone conversations.

Or you have an open window.

Or your phones are tapped.

Or your lying.
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:08 PM
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Certain sets of headphones can pick up cordless phone conversations.

Or you have an open window.

Or your phones are tapped.

Or your lying.
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Is your phone cordless? They probably have a scanner spock
The Monk
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09/28/2011 11:08 PM
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Police Scanner Radio can be modified to pick up the frequencies used by cordless phones. All it takes is some soder and a sodering iron.
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09/28/2011 11:11 PM
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Police Scanner Radio can be modified to pick up the frequencies used by cordless phones. All it takes is some soder and a sodering iron.
 Quoting: The Monk 1552116


Coke or Pepsi?
Anonymous Coward (OP)
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09/28/2011 11:13 PM
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She hears the clicks on both the landline and the cordless!
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09/28/2011 11:14 PM
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Don't use a cordless phone... Baby monitors can pick up phone conversations...
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09/28/2011 11:16 PM
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Can they do this with cell phones?
"I yam what I yam and that's all that I yam" ~ Popeye
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:21 PM
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I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission.
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09/28/2011 11:22 PM
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Can they do this with cell phones?
 Quoting: Lilhippychic


I have heard there is a way to listen to cellphone calls. Not sure how they do it though!
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:22 PM
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I could hear my neighbors calls on a radio, it was a long time ago, about 13 years, and the early version of the cordless phone (perhaps 600Mhz)...I had an older radio and at the far end of the fm dial it would pick up her calls
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09/28/2011 11:22 PM
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The cordless phone is a transceiver.

The neighbor is intercepting the signal from it and spying on you.


I would stop using the cordless phones.
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09/28/2011 11:23 PM
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Changed to different company, and the same. The phone company reported 86 hang ups in a 20 hour period.
My mother is older and not on the phone that much.
She has land lines and digital cordless phones.

 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Thier phone is picking up the conversations most likely.
I was cleaning my phone one day and hit the speaker button on my phone(a cordless)and was surprize to hear my neighbor having a conversation with her daughter.
I offened wondered if they could pick up my conversations as well.
The old scanners can be programed to monitor a certain frec range for phone calls tooo.


Oh, they never heard me speak when I asked "what the hell"
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09/28/2011 11:23 PM
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Looks like a Ouija board event. Probable negative spells are being cast your way.
Seek Jesus of Nazareth for deliverance.
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09/28/2011 11:24 PM
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Re: Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
She hears the clicks on both the landline and the cordless!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402



The clicks are just typical switching going on with the phone company routers.

Modified police scanners can also pick up cellular frequencies as well.
Anonymous Coward (OP)
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09/28/2011 11:25 PM
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Re: Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end!
We can't figure out the landline situation though!
Thanks again!
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09/28/2011 11:26 PM
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If you are using one of the old(er) skool chunky cordless phones, the frequency in which they operate can sometimes be picked up by shortwave radio...
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09/28/2011 11:28 PM
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Re: Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end!
We can't figure out the landline situation though!
Thanks again!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building?
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09/28/2011 11:29 PM
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Re: Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end!
We can't figure out the landline situation though!
Thanks again!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she is in a house.
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:31 PM
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Re: Help! How is neighbor listening to phone converstion!
I don't know the real world odds of this happening, but I know it to be true. I have been a cable splicer/repairman for 39 years, and twice, I have seen this problem. Cordless phones are manufactured using a finite amount of available frequencies. They are shipped to retailers as a "mixed bag" so to speak, of frequencies to avoid just the problem you are describing. In view of the fact that this is a neighbor, I doubt that your line is "tapped". Buy your mom a new cordless phone and see if the problem is solved. If not, register a complaint with your state Public Service Commission.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end!
We can't figure out the landline situation though!
Thanks again!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she is in a house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make?
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09/28/2011 11:35 PM
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She has bought new phones. I will tell her to register a complaint! Thanks for that info. She is at her wits end!
We can't figure out the landline situation though!
Thanks again!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she is in a house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense!
Anonymous Coward
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09/28/2011 11:38 PM
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Toss the fucking land line and use a cell phone.

Problem solved.
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09/28/2011 11:40 PM
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Toss the fucking land line and use a cell phone.

Problem solved.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1521012


I like it! That is what I only use in my house! Hard to talk my older mother into switching away from her land line.
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09/28/2011 11:41 PM
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He may be a ham radio tech with a good scanner, look for some antanas
On his roof if he is. I would get her a cheap cell phone. Cost a lot money
To scan for cell phones.
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09/28/2011 11:44 PM
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Does your Mom live in an apartment complex/building?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she is in a house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that.
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09/28/2011 11:45 PM
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Who's to say the neighbor wont scan around and get on the freq of any new cordless phone his mom buys??

I'd get her off cordless completely.
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09/28/2011 11:45 PM
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No, she is in a house.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


I know she has has several reapairmen take a look at the box outside and say they have fixed the problem. I will tell her your exact words! Thank you!
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09/28/2011 11:55 PM
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Phone ever ring and caller says sorry wrong number? Any long distance calls on bill that she didn't make?
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


No, she has never had that happened. She has had a situation where her phone rang and she answered and the drs. office was asking her why she called them. SHe did not call the drs. and the drs. did not call my mother. Hope that made sense!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


I'm betting that there is a "cross" between ONE side of your mom's line with ONE side of your neighbors line. It takes a pair of copper wires for each households phone to work. When one of these 2 wires is crossed, i.e. shorted to one of your neighbors wires, it can, and will enable your neighbor to listen in on your mom's calls. Sounds complicated, but tell the phone company what you suspect, and ask them to test for foreign voltage or grounds(from your neighbors line) on your mom's line. This will solve your problem, but you have to get a repairman who is willing to test the lines thoroughly to find the "cross". Good luck with that.
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1535529


I know she has has several reapairmen take a look at the box outside and say they have fixed the problem. I will tell her your exact words! Thank you!
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1515402


The problem will NOT be at your Mom, or your neighbor's home. It will be in the main cable(either aerial or underground) that feeds the whole neighborhood.
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It's easy. Scanner will allow someone to listen.
Even easier to get an old phone with some aligator clips substituted for the phone jack. All you need to do is go to the junction box and clip on to the various pairs of wires till you find the pair you want (by recognizing voices). Even easier to do today if someone clips on, gets a dial tone, and then calls there own phone to see what the caller ID shows.

When I was 10 years old (back in the 60's) we use to clip on the phone lines at the neighbourhood junction box and cut in on the neighbours calls. Lots of fun in the 1960's but I wouldn't recommend doing that now since it would probably get you some jail time.
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The Embarq repairman acts like the Maytag repairman.

Nothing to do and all day to do it.

That fucker would spend all day looking for pink unicorns if you gave him an excuse.





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