Expert: DebiN - 8/25/2011

Question
I am not sure if its possible, however, I believe my ex has cloned my voicemail. He has not had direct access to my phone in roughly a month. But first, im not even sure if there is a program that can scan to clone my phones information. I went over to his place recently, but, I kept my phone in the car. Secondly, if it is possible tO clone from a distance, i need to find out where to get this program from so i can do it to his... And also, how can i keep him from accessing future voicemails? And if he can clone the voicemails, what other information could have been cloned, like my texting, voice calls?

Answer
Brenda -

To be completely honest, without your husband physically having access to your phone, it is not possible for him to clone it. And even if he got access to it, it's not very likely that he would be successful in cloning it or in getting access to future information or in doing anything other than reading what is on your phone now unless it you have it locked. There isn't any way for you to clone his phone or get access to his information either.

To protect yourself, I would recommend you do the following:
1. Change the password to your voice mail and make sure that from your phone, when you access voice mail, that it requires you to put in your password each time, i.e., don't have the password automatically made part of the access to voice mail. That way, even if someone gets your phone and calls voice mail, they won't be able to get into the voice mail box without the password.
2. Call your wireless carrier and have your account password protected. Make sure that you are the only one with access and have it set so that to access any information either by phone or on line, it requires the password.

In today's world, you can't really "clone" a phone so that should make you safe but also you won't be able to access your ex's info either.  Hope this helps.