Who do I contact other than my phone carrier to report illegal device rooting

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My ex bf cloned my phone. By taking my Samsung device info and using it to register his phone. Once he has access to it. He has rooted my phone's device with open source licenses. He also has all control of my phone. Itercepting emails disconnecting calls my phone is threw cricket wireless and they won't do anything about it. Even when they had proof it was him.
These licenses and framework are liniting my access to direct sites not to mention my privacy IS GONE. AND GONE ON WAY TOO LONG.
IM TRACKED TRACED MY CALLS TEXT EMAILS REXORDED. I'M tired of it. I've had to have 4 bank accts. Ruined and closed due to fraudulent activity. My identity has been stolen as well as money out of my account ..
Please I've told the cops they don't do anything. Who can I contact.
He has now hired a hit man to kill me. I've been being followed from work to home for the last 3 days and they're waiting on the final payment which has been paid and the sick part is 8t was probably with my money.
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[hallux]

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He has now hired a hit man to kill me. I've been being followed from work to home for the last 3 days and they're waiting on the final payment which has been paid and the sick part is 8t was probably with my money.

If you truly believe this to be the case you need to reach out to the authorities as this part is absolutely illegal. If local police won't do it, go up the chain to the state police. If they won't talk to you, have a chat with a DA. But above all else - do this CALMLY. The more you get worked up about things when you talk to them the more difficult it will be for them to understand what's going on.

As for your phone. What you need to do is get a completely new email account, completely new cell phone and completely new number (maybe even a new account with the carrier). Set up new passwords on all your accounts, password managers have the ability to randomize characters to make hard to guess passwords, this might not be a bad idea to do. Oh, posting your phone number on web forums is not a smart idea.

Hopefully you can get this sorted out.

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[spantch101]

sounds a bit more serious than the typical posts here on AC . but as the above has stated. get another phone a burner with a prepaid will do just fine. turn your phone off and put it somewhere far from yourself. call athoritoes using another person's phone. and if there's any truth to the story . or even if the threats were made . your ex could go to jail for a very long time. get help and let us know how it goes. if he has truely cloned your device you can simply log out of all your accounts and swap sim cards along with the phone number. make sure cricket only allows you to make changes to he account and so on. just go and walk yourself into a police station and don't leave until it's sorted out.

ah . just realized cricket is a CDMA carrier. turn the phone off and get rid of it. go to authorities. good luck . it's not April yet.

 

[Rukbat]

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One step at a time:

My ex bf cloned my phone.

Duplicated your IMEI, maybe. he days of cloning phones are years dead. He'd have to reproduce your phone's hardware, the data on your SIM card.

By taking my Samsung device info and using it to register his phone.

Doesn't wtrk that way - the carrier registers the phone - and if it's already registered, the currently-registered owner has to be there - with a picture ID - to change the registration.

Once he has access to it. He has rooted my phone's device with open source licenses.

No, no. no. All of Android, except the vendor layer, is an open source system. Rooting can be as trivial as adding one file which, being part of the operating system (Linux) is also open source, to the phone, to "it takes years of programming experience" to "it can't be done on that phone yet". It's not just "download this".

He also has all control of my phone. Itercepting emails

Since GMail is IMAP, a dozen devices can be connected to the account and all of them can get the emails. (My phones get my emails, my PC gets my emails, my laptops get my emails.)

disconnecting calls

That's a bit impossible. Answering them before you do, so you go to answer them and they seem to have "disconnected" is possible, but disconnecting you while you're talking to someone? I'd love to be able to transfer a call in the middle - it can't be done.

my phone is threw cricket wireless and they won't do anything about it. Even when they had proof it was him.

Ask them to just replace the SIM (and adjust the account).

These licenses and framework are liniting my access to direct sites not to mention my privacy IS GONE. AND GONE ON WAY TOO LONG.
IM TRACKED TRACED MY CALLS TEXT EMAILS REXORDED. I'M tired of it. I've had to have 4 bank accts. Ruined and closed due to fraudulent activity. My identity has been stolen as well as money out of my account ..
Please I've told the cops they don't do anything. Who can I contact.

Banks are federally regulated. Print out all the paperwork and ... wait until the government starts working again (thank Trump for the shutdown he said he'd be sp glad to own) and take a drive to your local FBI office. Your ex committed bank fraud, st the very least.

He has now hired a hit man to kill me. I've been being followed from work to home for the last 3 days and they're waiting on the final payment which has been paid and the sick part is 8t was probably with my money.
[deletion] HELP

If you really believe that, and your local police won't do anything, contact the state police. Ask to speak to a female detective. Stalking and menacing are crimes, and refusing to act on them (by your local police) is also a crime.

Maybe, if he's hired a hit man (killing a woman not mob-connected would be a high-profile thing, so it would probably have to be an out of town hitter, and that's expensive), he actually has the money to hire an electronics expert to "clone" your phone. One thing, though. Hit men don't take time payments. They usually don't even meet with the client (your ex) directly, they use cutouts. And a single payment. And an out of state hit man also makes t a federal matter, so the FBI would get involved at that level too.

Pint it all out, bank records, emails, texts, how you know about the hit man, anything that shows any proof of any of this, and get to an FBI office..

 

[Rukbat]

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ah . just realized cricket is a CDMA carrier. turn the phone off and get rid of it. go to authorities. good luck . it's not April yet.

Cricket is an AT&T MVNO, and as GSM as its parent company, AT&T. (It's a wholly-owned subsidiary.)

make sure cricket only allows you to make changes to he account

That's standard. Getting them to allow someone else to make changes, with your prior permission, is usually a "can't do it" thing.

just go and walk yourself into a police station and don't leave until it's sorted out.

That depends on where she lives. In some small towns, that will just get her arrested for trespassing, obstruction of governmental administration, put on a 3 day psych hold. Small-town departments are pretty strange sometimes. (And about as crooked as can be.)

 

[spantch101]

Cricket is an AT&T MVNO, and as GSM as its parent company, AT&T. (It's a wholly-owned subsidiary.) Sorry it used to be a CDMA carrier. And i know when I worked for bell back in the day one of the employees i worked with had two Motorola RAZR devices that had the same number attached. As close to cloning as you could expect to get. Hed keep one in pristine condition while he had a beater for outside play. Both phones rang and got text at the same time. I was assuming this was still possible with CDMA

That's standard. Getting them to allow someone else to make changes, with your prior permission, is usually a "can't do it" thing. Yes unless there are two authorized users on the account. Me and my wife both have full control of our plans and both our names are on account. Maybe they do as well?

That depends on where she lives. In some small towns, that will just get her arrested for trespassing, obstruction of governmental administration, put on a 3 day psych hold. Small-town departments are pretty strange sometimes. (And about as crooked as can be.)

also coming to AC to seek help Inca life or death matter seems a bit out there. But eh. the whole thing seems a bit wild to me. But i don't feel like someone who's gonna hire a hitman would ever tell you about it. More of a scare tactic with criminal charges looming, probably the same thing with convincing someone you have cloned their phone nowadays.each device would need same IMEI and sim credentials and be authenticated by the associated network which would be rejected. .

That's standard. Getting them to allow someone else to make changes, with your prior permission, is usually a "can't do it" thing.

Expect for those times when you have two owners on an account like me and the wife. We both have full control of the account. Maybe her ex still has his name attached as well )

my quoting isn't going to plan lol

and cricket used to be CDMA . I know back in the hey day of CDMA vs GSM . my friend at bell had two devices registered to the same number. and had a work/ play device both would recieve texts and calls at the same time. figured that's about as close as you could get to cloning a phone nowadays with all the network restrictions and security settings

but yea.i looked it up and they have been GSM for quite a while now

 

[Rukbat]

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Since AT&T bought them. (Which is really Cingular, who bought the name AT&T Mobility back in the day. Then AT&T bought Cingular. What a tangled web ...)