This is the part where I say I experienced all the same symptoms and bizarre happenings and the only cure I found is to not use a phone which isn't feasible. Every device I touch eventually gets taken over, windows, iOS, tvs, and I mean all devices. Even my two Hondas were subject to a Rolling PWND attack. Last night an unplugged smart tv was "clicking" and trying to startup with no cables. I wrote iC3 and panicked to the other end of the spectrum which is to do nothing. It's maddening and someone has to have a resolve. I'll do anything-- change my name, sell my home, and never look back to rid myself of this plague. It's crippling to not be able to use a phone like normal or watch tv without it shutting off back to back as you turn it on. I've been at this for nearly a year and a half and it's the same cycle. It's the most voracious AI malware on the planet and its goal is to erase a human because it nearly erased me in a car wreck and a few other events. It's working according to this post. My theory is I have to vanish before I'm vanquished. If you haven't experienced it you don't understand its capabilities of erasure of everything it touches. It's a disease. The goal is consumption and to make terminal. I want out of this loop. A new identity is my resolve. Geolocation seems to come into play because it finds my devices. Anyone got any ideas of how to beat it?
And why did I find this thread? Searching for answers in this maddening season of insanity. I’m on the verge of losing everything. My partner, which means I lose my home, my job as we own a business together. He thinks I’ve experienced a schizophrenic episode and that I am mentally unstable and delusional. He can’t understand why I can’t let it go.
1, I finally found where some of my data is being transferred. To my Mac book that I haven’t used in 4 years. I’m NOT logged into my Apple ID on the MacBook and even if I was, my pictures would appear in the photos, my texts in the texts. But no, I found every image a woman would never willingly transfer to another device. Not only that but they are in a shared folder labeled PUBLIC. They are in a QuickTime video player format (which I wouldn’t even know how to convert things to) some have music dubbed over them, and it clearly shows that they were transferred to the device through message file transfer. As I said, messages would simply appear in the messages app, not as a transfer in a QuickTime video format. I also have documents saved on my MacBook related to my ex husbands job. Documents that are recent that would have never been accessible to me on any of my devices. I also have images and videos from my youngest daughters phone who lives with him in another state. That simply would not be possible even if I had accidentally logged into my Apple Id and somehow mistakenly transferred stuff from my phone. I don’t need it rubbed into my face about the risk of taking sensitive images for my partner, I know, trust me I freaking know in the most mortified way so just don’t go there. I don’t need that right now.
How can I possibly let this go and just stop trying to secure my devices when I literally see those images in a folder labeled PUBLIC? Someone who loves me should feel just as angry and concerned.
2, it’s not just sensitive images. I found screenshots in my albums. One is a credit card application I filled out last May and was approved for. It had four line items to review and approve as correct before hitting the submit button. It had someone else’s email in the email field. I never took that screenshot and even if I had, there is absolutely no way I would have overlooked a man’s name in the form of an email address in the field where I typed MY email address before submitting it. With all I’m researching, I believe this is layering, steganography, data masking or whatever. What I see on my screen is not what’s really taking place behind the scenes. In addition this has affected my business devices. Managed web browsers, I’m finding that I’ve been overcharged for things I’ve ordered for my business even though my receipts match my bank statements. Small inconsistencies on the invoices and my cost being higher than retail on certain items. That’s what made me go searching for clarification and I eventually found the correct price on the site and have received the refunded difference where I can prove it but with all I’m experiencing it is leading me to believe that I’m dealing with invoicing fraud. I’m so very concerned that I have a hidden black hole or financial fraud that I am just now slowly uncovering.
I also received a letter in the mail in which my name was spelled wrong, it was informing me of updated terms and conditions for a business credit card that is specifically issued to businesses to provide a cushion for payroll. I’ve never applied for that card and if I had I would’ve spelled my name right. It was not an application, the wording was 100% intended as an update to my already existing cards features and terms. Each time I have called to try to figure out what the deal is, I get far enough on the call with customer support to make progress and then my call disconnects. This has happened numerous times when trying to seek answers with Apple support and my mobile provider as well. Like I’m being intentionally prevented from accessing the help I need to secure my accounts. It’s defeating.
3, we’ve had numerous customers come to our business in person just because they wanted to see if we had gone out of business. They call and call and it just rings. No voicemail, no returned calls, no reply in a text. I discovered both my phone and the business phone had been set on do not disturb schedules. My phone was logged into the business Apple ID with my number and my business phone with it’s Apple ID and MY phone number. We have very clear evidence of phone number spoofing. My 51 page phone bills and detailed phone bills in which my business phone is texting back and forth with one single phone number all day long and not another number is listed till a different day yet on my phone itself you can see the dozens of different numbers being communicated with.
When my partners daughter calls him, the business phone rings. When someone texts him, she gets his messages. My iphone cannot utilize ‘find my’ with my business phone (always like to keep track of location because carrying two phones makes it easier to lose one). The message on my iPhone says, can’t use find my as this number does not appear to be associated with an iPhone. This message displays ON my iPhone, IN my iPhone settings for FIND MY IPHONE!!
At one point when all this was first discovered, as I learned more about checking IMEI numbers and mac addresses etc, my phone had the same IMEI as my home internet router. The one that sits on my shelf to provide WiFi, yet when I started inspecting it, was also receiving TEXT MESSAGES from someone named Jen who wanted to swing by the home or who she wa texting to pick up their friends keys to return them. The ONLY messages that should ever display on a router should be from the provider saying something like, just want to make sure your ideas resolved, please rate your experience with customer service. My provider was telling me it was impossible and that it wouldn’t allow a legit text message, I showed her the picture and told her not to tell me what my own eyes see as fact.
Come to find out they have linked three of our phone lines at various times to the phone number for our Internet router. Infact at this moment, according to the IMEI and MAC address, my Internet router is logged into its own WiFi as an iPhone 11. No one in this house has an iPhone 11. But I guess my WiFi router is one.
My freaking Samsung washing machine has licensing for Snapchat’s FB messenger, every single Bluetooth and or WiFi compatible device in our home and business has licensing it makes no sense to have and I’ve been able to establish that many of the licenses I’ve found on such devices were not originally installed on them.
I did however have a complete narcissist of a roommate who had access to all of our devices both at work and home. I truly believe this is both physical and digital tampering. I don’t know how to make it stop. I got brand new phones and a business computer in July/August. I had three weeks of bliss with functional phones and 5 whole days with my brand new computer before it all got reinfected. It’s insane.
I’m broken, I’m exhausted, I can’t tell up from down. I just want to secure our finances and privacy while still keeping my business open and it’s just so time consuming that I’m falling behind at work while only taking a few small baby steps at a time in finding the source of the problems. My partner is about done with me. He doesn’t believe me. He thinks I’m just making it up as an excuse ‘because im just slacking off and not focusing on the business’ but I’m literally jumping through hoops and having road blocks thrown at me all day while trying to work.
I go to order products and my web browser won’t allow me to access a single page. By the time I reset it all, none of my passwords will populate and I have to reset them to gain access (finally started writing them down). Then I go to print and my printer has been disabled so I have to remove it and reinstall it. I go to bill someone out and the screen freezes and crashes and then I try to get back into my customer database software and the window just plays pink pong, I open it, it closes, I open it it closes. Then I get a phone call and it sounds robotic so o spend five minutes saying I can’t hear you I’ll call you back. They don’t answer so I shoot a text. Then I look down and see that I missed a call, yup, phone was set to silent and do not disturb and then I have to go into my settings and make sure my phone is working so I can WORK. And then I find financial errors on my invoices and have to call the company and sort that out and then bam, hold on let me reset my password to log in and find that order and part number. All day every day this is what I’m dealing with; all while wondering if someone I know is a part of this and wondering who all has seen my sensitive images and while my partner expresses frustration over how little I’ve accomplished because I can’t work efficiently and meanwhile he won’t even look at the scoreshots on my phone to prove it to him. My sons graduation picture has been altered with a time stamp of 2014. He graduated in 2023. Everything is so overwhelming and confusing and my credit score is dropping about 10 points a week but no, I need to let it go and stop obsessing over my phone settings and stop changing all the passwords and get off the phone with Apple and our mobile provider and work harder to keep our business running.
At what point do we not have a business to o run it I ignore this? At what point do we discover that all of our accounts have been slowly draining but we couldn’t see it happening because the image on my screen is an ai generated image? At what point do we deem verifying where our payment went after leaving our bank account and check either our vendors to see where our payments came from and what price it was supposed to be, much less securing devices that won’t hang up the calls each time we finally make it through the customer support hold menu? How?
For anyone else who has commented about the psychological nightmare they’ve endured and how Bo one has believed you, I feel you. This is a legitimate nightmare. I’m literally on th Le brink of losing the man I planned to grow old with, the business we run together, and the house I helped make into a home. I do empathize with him. I know how unbelievable and insane this all sounds, but what am I supposed to do? How can I ignore this? How can I fix it when I don’t even know why it’s happening? It takes time and research and I believe we are going to have to replace every single WiFi and Bluetooth device, change every account and provider of phone and internet service both at home and work, and do so all before a single device is turned on, activated or connected to anything else with all of the existing and infected devices far removed from our locations. That is expensive and time consuming and how are we supposed to run our business while this takes place?
This is literally the most frustrating and exhausting experience I’ve ever had. I don’t see an end in sight and I just want it to stop.
