Someone tapping (bugging)my phone?

okay, i don't need mental health and i'm not paranoid.

For the past six months, there has been really weird clicks on my cordless phone. (from time to time)

I never really gave it much thought.
Whenever i'm on my landline phone, I never hear it.

So, I bought a new cordless, thinking it might be the phone.
Nope, still happening. Still thinking that I'm paranoid.

I mention this to a neighbor (I don't really now well) in passing.

The neighbor looks at me really serious, and said that they can't tell me what they saw, but my weird, spooky neighbor is probably listening to my conversations.

I said WHAT? What did you see. The neighbor told me he wasn't going to get involved in a criminial case, and to just use a land line phone.

Tell me please.

Could this really happen?

If so, how do I prove it? Who do I call to check it out?

Creeped out in Cleveland

 

your screwed

 

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Good Luck

 

What did the phone company say?

 

Haven't called yet, just found out today. Will be calling tomorrow.
Just wanted to know if this could actually happen?
What could this neighbor have seen?

 

thank you. i looked at the sight, i don't think that is the is what the deal with?

Also, to the drummer avatar -

When you say "I'm screwed" does that mean that it could be happening?

please advise.

 

Drummer? I thought it was a kid beating the crap out of someone.

 

its from office space, its Mike Bolton going crazy on a printer.

 

Ah. I remember now that you say it. Been awhile since I say it.

 

If your neighbor has a police scanner and you have a cordless phone that's lower than a certain frequency (can't remember what it needs to be), they can hear all of your calls. When DH was in the coast guard, he had a scanner so he could be prepared before he was called in for a rescue. Unfortunately, we heard everyone's phone calls. Unlike your neighbor, we didn't want to hear them and we spoke to everyone to let them know about it. You can't hear anything on a landline phone or cell phone.

 

When you buy a cordless phone always buy a DSS phone. "DSS" stands for Digital Spread Spectrum and these phones do not use a set frequency but rather jump frequencies. There is no interception from scanners with these phones. If you're tapped with a DSS it means somebody is doing it from down the street at the community wiring box and going to a lot of trouble.

 

thank you smiles. I wonder if that's what the other neighbor saw.
Curious, how does he know i'm on the phone?
Do they keep the scanner on all time?
so what now? am i just screwed? Is this something the police need to investigate? what about the phone company?

 

Most people that have scanners keep them on all the time. They keep them on to hear police, fire, etc. information. Unfortunately the scanners pick up phone call conversations in the neighboorhood. Individuals that have scanners are not breaking the law. To make sure no one hears your telephone conversations do not use cordless telephones.

 

thanks. When I heard those weird noises on the cordless, is that a giveaway that it was a scanner?

 

A scanner won't cause noises on your phone. It doesn't broadcast it only receives, so there's nothing there to affect your phone and cause it to click.

 

CuriousGeorge, do you have time warner phone service? I'm just wondering because I have this service and I hear clicking all the time on my cordless phone.

 

Cordless phones

Clicking doesnt mean your phone is tapped. Someone may be listening in, but you'd never know it. The clicks are as Devilock said just radio pollution. Find someone with a scanner and have them show you how easy it is to listen to everones conversations over cordless/baby monitors, etc. You'll never use one for anything important again.

Reminds me of the time I lived in an apartment and a wierd creepy nextdoor neighbor showed me his parabolic microphone (EXTREMELY sensative microphone). He had shown it to me a few weeks before we started getting harrasing phone calls that the caller mentioned some stuff that should have been private to me and my G/F. I connected 2+2 together and figured it was him. I handled it like this...

Had a friend of mine come over when I knew the nut was home and we pretended to have a conversation about how I had called the FBI and they were investigating my harrassing calls. That they had narrowed it down to the immediate are and were closing in on the culprit. Whadda you know, the calls stopped and the neighbor avoided me like the plague.

You could try putting a large metal bucket over your head while using the cordless to trap in the radio waves

 

yes! i also have TWC

 

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Don't know how true it is, but interesting as far as the clicks are concerned..what have you spoken about on your phone?

 

bug sweeping

Even the little radio shack ones dont click or do anything. That is all just a myth that the movies have in them so that the hero can figure out the phone is tapped.

Any good ham radio operator can bug sweep it for you and they probably wont even charge you a nickel. But the results probably will be the exact same.

Paranoid.