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I received a Facetime call on my iphone 5S from (561) ***-****. When I answered no-one was there. As soon as I hung up my wife's iphone 6S+ got a Facetime call from that same number. I answered and no-one was there. Did I somehow allow a hacker to get access to our phones?
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iPhone 5s, iOS 12
ArtRach Said:
“Did we accidentally allow virus?: [...]When I answered no-one was there. As soon as I hung up my wife's iphone 6S+ got a Facetime call from that same number. I answered and no-one was there. Did I somehow allow a hacker to get access to our phones?”
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Looking Up Phone Numbers is Easy:
Lookup up your name and location and I’m sure it’s right in the search results of Google search queue.
If they would only do away with these database sites, how safe we may be.
Your iPhone is not going to be touched - it’s your iOS - so keep that in mind. Your physical phones are just fine.
Just block the number and let it be.
Go Here: Block Phone Numbers, Contacts, and eMails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPad Touch
ArtRach Said:
“Did we accidentally allow virus?: [...]When I answered no-one was there. As soon as I hung up my wife's iphone 6S+ got a Facetime call from that same number. I answered and no-one was there. Did I somehow allow a hacker to get access to our phones?”
———-
Looking Up Phone Numbers is Easy:
Lookup up your name and location and I’m sure it’s right in the search results of Google search queue.
If they would only do away with these database sites, how safe we may be.
Your iPhone is not going to be touched - it’s your iOS - so keep that in mind. Your physical phones are just fine.
Just block the number and let it be.
Go Here: Block Phone Numbers, Contacts, and eMails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPad Touch
I intentionally put in the full phone number to see if anyone else had gotten a similar call from that same number. It is highly suspicious that the same number would be used to call both our phones consecutively and that makes that phone number suspect. (though I admit it could have been spoofed.
and we don't have consecutive phone numbers
Not a hacker or a virus. Answering a phone call won't harm your phone.
There's dozens of ways someone could figure out each of your phone numbers.
Nothing to worry about.
~Lyssa
Thank you. I had thought I'd heard somewhere hackers could someone use that trick to pkant software on the phones to enable them to access our cameras pr some such thing.
There was a brief time when a vulnerability in Safari could remotely activate your camera. That was dealt with via an update some time ago.
A phone call can't do anything.
~Lyssa
thank you.
You are welcome.
Did we accidentally allow virus?
