So basically when I will leave the place im staying my phone signal hits a tower 68km from me. Upon connecting to that tower occasionally I will get phone calls from numbers and blocked ID , that when answered have noone on the other end. My messenger on Facebook will get hijacked somehow , and whoever I message on it will not be the contact , have even screenshot the convo and shown people who have then shown me there convo on there device and none of it is in there chat logs . Strange things like those and I feel like my calls are maybe forwarded elsewhere as sometimes people do not answer at all or the messages I receive are just absurdly strange .
The ones with location of 376 brooks road and 450 brooks road are 68km away which is weird because there is lots of towers in my area in Niagara falls that I should have better signal from ?
The one thats 29400 9749290 98, LTE 66511 B66 AWS ,especially as most the towers here actually run on that B66 band so why would it be hitting one so so far away ? B66 isn’t that long of range I thought , also that location seems to hit on B12 .
Never used this forum by figured maybe I could gain some useful knowledge from this post.
Also, you should very much black out the address location in your screenshots, probably just remove it entirely. You are heavily de-anonymizing yourself with that information.
Being anonymous doesn’t really bother me… I have no reason to hide or need to hide . And yes I would be targeted by police for 1 and for 2 criminals that work with for and with them. Also im currently “no fixed address” so location I been at is one im just staying at temporarily…
The address locations are estimated locations of fhs towers . Not my location …
Would be is different than actively being targeted. Have you broken the law (don’t have to say specifically this) or are actively involved in something where you would raise suspicion by police? Or is this just a general “distrust cops” sort of situation?
The cell tower information shown by the app might be outdated. I checked CellMapper and it seems at least for 9787144 should be a legitimate CellID.
IMSI catchers should usually work as MITM which copy basically all Cell Info and relay your traffic. So it should be quite difficult to notice, at least not this easy.
That being said, I think you should start experimenting what is (are) compromised ASAP.
For your phone number, if your MNO have a web portal, login and check all usage data. You can request a new SIM, and if you want to, get another Phone Number, and set SMS / Call forwarding from your old number to new number.
For your online services, such as Facebook, Log in via another device, go to setting and kick out all sessions, then update your credentials, enable 2FA. DO NOT USE YOUR PHONE TO ACCESS THOSE SERVICE UNTIL YOU DONE STEP 3.
Factory Reset your phone. Do not retore from backups.
Go to sites like HIBP and check if your credentials got leaked from known data breach.
If step 4 turned to be positive, update all affected services and go freeze your credit, if applicable.
If you are targeted by state, you should not notice it.
And thank you tinfoilhat I will do that .I can login to my service providers website and get a new sim and number for like 20$ so Ill do that as well . is it weird tho that I connect to a cell 60+km away , when other cells on the same band are within 2km of me that i can get signal from ? Like how would one so so far away have a better signal that my phone goes to it? That seems impossible for that tower to be that strong to reach that distance and still be the strongest one to have my phone connect to it
In this case, if your phone was ever seized by authorities, you might want to get rid of it and get a new one instead. Factory reset the old phone before disposal.
Makes sense. In this case, unless you are actively a high threat to the federal government, I doubt the provincial authorities care enough about you to hijack things.
If you are worried about DNS poisoning and a fake Facebook situation hijacking your messages, use a VPN. I would place hard money that your hypothesis about a bad actor targeting your Facebook is happening. But a VPN should mitigate this for passive attacks.
I’d recommend browsing the recommendations on the main website for VPNs to choose, and you may find some other good info there. Happy to provide info where we can.
Let’s say my phone’s off , i turn it on. It will seem normal for a bit until it hits one of those distant towers then goes sketchy. I’ll airplane mode it , reset network settings , go into sim settings unclick allow 2g, unclick network video calls and set it to LTE only. As it will normally reset to LTE/wcdma so and all the wcdma towers drop my calls however it rarely connects me to them I set it not to . And the phone usually appears to be alot less sketchy after doing that. But if I correlate my seemingly compromised events they always correspond to connecting to these towers that this app Netmonitor claims are way far away. Am getting new phone and sim. Won’t put that sim in this phone. Will reset this one fully . Sell it or get rid of it and break my old sim card. Then have my provider update the new sim with a new number and then put it into my new phone. That should be pretty safe I hope.
Definitely disable 2G from your phone. New versions of Stingray (aka IMSI catcher) could work in 4G but 4G is still a massive uplift from 2G.
IF you are all clean now, you can contact your MNO saying you suspect there is an “jammer” and see if they will investigate. I don’t know much about Canada so it might not be a good idea if the Government / LE love deploying mass surveillance tech.
As good practice, please refrain from sharing your new phone number with anyone / business, use it as DATA only.
My practice is:
Government / Bank Service SIM - always unplugged
Work SIM - always unplugged, set to forward all received calls to SIM 4. (As it is cheaper than using VOIP service in my area)
Shopping SIM - always unplugged
Data SIM - Change every few months as daily driver, incoming calls only, NO Outgoing calls, not giving the number to anyone.
