clifffaith
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We were in Big Bear for a few days last week. First time there since Cliff got a new iPhone in January. On the winding road up the mountain, the Garmin GPS flashed a message we’d never seen before saying something about the phone wanting to connect to the Garmin via Bluetooth. I clicked on “no”, but the message appeared several more times until we got to the top. Forgot all about this until our trip down the mountain to come home.
On our last afternoon on our way out to eat one or the other of us forgot that the pre-set classical music radio station had conked out as we got out of range of home, and turned the radio on. Another unwanted station was coming in, and at the same time we were turning that off a “scam likely” phone call was coming in and the phone was inadvertently answered. I said to Cliff “hang that up” and an Asian accented female voice answered back “you don’t hang up on me, I say when this call is over”. We were about at our destination, and could not hang up the call while also concentrating on driving. We continued to hear a voice, although not necessarily directed at us and in fact Cliff thought we were overhearing someone else’s conversation (like an old party line situation). We were unable to disconnect for several minutes even after we got parked, but eventually did.
Next day we are driving back down the mountain and up pops the message on the GPS wanting to connect the phone and the Garmin via Bluetooth. Only this time it freaks us out by saying “Jang’s phone” wants to connect. Presumably Jang is the person who called the day before. Can an incoming call have hacked into Cliff’s phone? Or was this just a fluke? Anything we should do?
On our last afternoon on our way out to eat one or the other of us forgot that the pre-set classical music radio station had conked out as we got out of range of home, and turned the radio on. Another unwanted station was coming in, and at the same time we were turning that off a “scam likely” phone call was coming in and the phone was inadvertently answered. I said to Cliff “hang that up” and an Asian accented female voice answered back “you don’t hang up on me, I say when this call is over”. We were about at our destination, and could not hang up the call while also concentrating on driving. We continued to hear a voice, although not necessarily directed at us and in fact Cliff thought we were overhearing someone else’s conversation (like an old party line situation). We were unable to disconnect for several minutes even after we got parked, but eventually did.
Next day we are driving back down the mountain and up pops the message on the GPS wanting to connect the phone and the Garmin via Bluetooth. Only this time it freaks us out by saying “Jang’s phone” wants to connect. Presumably Jang is the person who called the day before. Can an incoming call have hacked into Cliff’s phone? Or was this just a fluke? Anything we should do?
