Author: FlexiSPY

One of the most popular features of our mobile monitoring software is its ability to capture messages such as Facebook, LINE, WeChat, Skype, WhatsApp and SMS. Apps such as LINE and WeChat may not be big in the west, but they are huge in other parts of the world. That’s why FlexiSPY now translates!

It’s a sign of increasing globalization that we get requests to translate Facebook messages, translate LINE message and translate SMS from one language to another. Examples include parents of bilingual children or employers who work in multinational corporations and deal with foreign team members or clientson a regular basis.

Sure, translations systems are available — Google Translate being a fantastic example of what’s possible with machines. But even so, when it comes to translating language pairs that include, English, Thai, Tagalog and Russian, automated translations do a pretty terrible job.

Lets Take A Look At These Translations

 

Russian Google Translation Fail

Spanish Google Translation Fail

As you can see, you simply cannot expect a machine to translate slang, dialects, grammar or even the latest text abbreviation.

A BETTER WAY 

We thought there had to be a better way to approach this and the answer was clear: Human Translations.

One great asset we have at FlexiSPY is our international staff, with over seven different languages being spoken in our offices. So, we decided to integrate a human translation service directly into the FlexiSPY portal as a proof of concept project.

Here’s What We Came Up With

We added the ability for the FlexiSPY portal to detect the language type of any message that is captured and see if there is a translation service available. If there is, it will display a ‘translate’ option. When selected, this option sends the phrase to a translator. When the translation is complete, the message changes to ‘translation available’ which the user can click to see the translation.

The user pays for the translation by purchasing translation credits.

The system is already available via ThaiSpy, a company who is licensing our technology to do Thai to English translations of Facebook, LINE and other messages, and we plan to introduce it to FlexiSPY soon.

Here’s A Screenshot Of The Translation Service In Action

What languages would you like to see included in the next version of FlexiSPY?

A Fully Fledged — iOS 7 Jailbreak Is Finally Here

Spyphone vendors everywhere got an early Christmas present today with the announcement of the jailbreak for iOS7.

A Bit Of Background First.

Without a jailbreak, it’s not possible to create the kind of powerful spy software, like FlexiSPY, that can run undetected. In fact, without a jailbreak, only the most trivial applications are possible, but there are only so many Flashlight programs the market can bear!

So, because there was no jailbreak for iOS7, for the last few months, anyone who wanted to spy on an iPhone was out of luck. To make things worse, over 70 % of iPhone users had already upgraded to iOS7. iOS7 was not only un-jailbreakable (is there such a word?), but could also not be downgraded to the 6.x versions that would have allowed the installation of monitoring software.

A Pretty Sucky Situation.

Update

The engineers did it. FlexiSPY is now available for iOS7, check it out here — and thanks for your patience.

Uncovering lies in the SpyPhone world.

You’ve seen it before, a website absolutely loaded with practically an army of «as seen on — NBC, CNN, FOX NEWS, BBC, CSNBC, BB — these sites seem to have half their page filled with these logo’s and often times, the logo’s don’t lead anywhere, there was never any article written about that website to begin with, it didn’t even have permission to use the logo of that site. You may have recently heard about Samsung’s Astroturfing fiasco where Samsung was hiring contractors to write forum posts that praised Samsung devices, trashed competitors, and downplayed bad news. While that’s definitely not cool, it doesn’t come close to the lies going on in the SpyPhone world.

Why the logo jacking

The reason why companies are now logo jacking is to exploit the theory of social proof. Social Proof is basically this: if you see a person do something safely and successfully, you’ll feel more secure in doing that same thing. Where doubts might have been, they are no longer as prevalent when you see that the action it is possible. The problem occurs when the social proof is bought, or faked, then this proof is no longer accurate, and people are being lied to — problems start happening.

Examining mSpy’s social proof

Now with this understanding of what logojacking is, we’ll take a look into the SpyPhone realm to see if there’s any logojacking going on. The site being looked at will be mSpy, starting with the business testimonials banner on their home page.

Here’s A Picture of Their Banner

This banner references CNN, CNBC, The New York Times, and BBC. It also shows off some customer testimonials, from three guys.

The Cues of Scam Sites

There are cue’s that prospective customers on a product site should take into consideration when trying to determine if the product is legitimate or not.
Things to look out for,

• A forged Better Business Bureau assurance Seal leading to a real looking report
• A warranty that was too good to be true
• False business location information
• Forged newsclips from professional magazines
• Impossibly exaggerated Company sales statistics
• Universally positive, hyperbolic customer endorsements

knowing this, I started to research the testimonials located on the mSpy page.

I first tried to click on the images in the banner to read the supposed articles about mSpy, but I was unable to, turns out it was just a banner image that someone put together with photo editing software. So, I searched for each individual reference to try to find the supposed articles, manually.

The affiliated logos search

CNN – I searched the CNN website with the Keywords: mSpy to try to find any related article. I was unable to find any article mentioning mSpy.

The New York Times – I searched the NYT website with mSpy but was unable to find any article mentioning mSpy. A list of Spy articles were the result of the search, but none of those articles mentioned mSpy.

CNBC – Searching the CNBC website, I couldn’t find any article that linked to mSpy.

BBC — I searched the BBC website, and I couldn’t find any article that mentioned mSpy.

CrunchBase – I searched the CrunchBase website and found that mSpy created a profile on the CrunchBase website. While CrunchBase doesn’t directly reference mSpy, and putting the logo of CrunchBase on the mSpy testimonial section IS misleading, it doesn’t qualify as logojacking.

What it means

mSpy hasn’t been mentioned in any of the corporations that they claimed they had been referenced in. The only website that I was able to find mSpy information on was CrunchBase, where mSpy created a corporate profile.

Customer Testimonials

mSpy also features several customer testimonials. The reviews look like they might be legitimate, although it should be noted that it’s very common for companies to outsource people to write reviews for them, and we’ve seen that mSpy has a track record for faking references – So, it’s not out of the question. If the customer testimonials ARE in fact legit, then kudos to them. Otherwise, with their history of lies, prospective customers might want to think twice.

Вы пытались Вернуть Деньги у mSpy?
Если вы пытались воспользоваться политикой возврата mSpy, то теперь вам известно, что означает выражение Caveat Emptor, которое переводится как «Покупатель, Будь Бдителен!». Это относится к тем случаям, когда покупатель чувствует себя обманутым, купившись на грамотный маркетинг продавца, но не имеет никаких средств правовой защиты.
Наиболее распространенной причиной раскаяния покупателя является использование продавцом мелкого шрифта. Нам всем знакома ситуация, когда продавец завораживает покупателя соблазнительными предложениями, скрывая недостатки или другую важную информацию в трудно читаемом тексте.
Итак, вернемся к политике возврата mSpy …
Сомнительная Политика mSpy
Рекламируемая как гарантия возврата средств в течении 10 дней, написанная мелким шрифтом политика возврата mSpy — это шедевр. В ней содержится столько исключений, что найти хотя бы один пример, когда покупатель может на самом деле получить свои деньги обратно, просто невозможно.
Давайте начнем с того, что они говорят клиенту, прежде чем он купит у них товар.
В FAQ MSpy говорится: «Если вам что-то не понравилось в нашем приложении, вы можете получить свои деньги обратно в течение 10 дней с момента покупки.»
Однако, мелким шрифтом все изложено настолько по-другому, что совершенно противоречит сказанному ранее. Мелким шрифтом mSpy описаны ограничения на возврат по «Личным причинам (» Я передумал «,» Сделал покупку по ошибке «, и т.д.).» Очевидно, что возврат «если вам что-то не понравилось в нашем приложении» сюда не входит.
Что Они Говорят На Самом Деле
На самом деле, в политике mSpy четко сказано, «Клиенты My Spy не могут получить возврат денежных средств в тех случаях, когда причины для этого выходят за рамки нашего контроля.» MSpy не перечисляет ни одной причины, которая находится у них под контролем, но зато они предлагают длинный список практических соображений, по которым подать запрос на возврат вы не можете. Сюда относится: Если вы не можете получить доступ к Наблюдаемому телефону, если вы передумали или приобрели товар по ошибке, если Наблюдаемый телефон не подключен к Интернет, не можете получить доступ к файловой системе устройства (джейлбрейк) или получить права суперпользователя телефона (рут доступ), а также и множество других причин. Если через день-другой приложение перестает работать и в mSpy вам говорят, что эта проблема связана с работой Интернет, это тоже выходит за рамки их контроля.
Не ошибитесь, mSpy не позволяет требовать возврата потому что вам «не понравилось» приложение (как это говорится в FAQ) или, по какой-то непонятной причине, вы недовольны его работой. Взглянуть на все написанные мелким шрифтом обстоятельства, при которых вы не можете получить возврат, можно здесь.
Конечно, использование мелкого шрифта может быть совершенно законно, но с этической точки зрения весьма сомнительно. В то время как mSpy ничего “плохого” не делают, их политика возврата могла бы быть использована в качестве учебного пособия в искусстве использования мелкого шрифта для оправдания отказа выполнять обещание вернуть вам деньги.
Так что же делать, если вы купили продукт mSpy, которым не довольны?
Недовольны mSpy?
К счастью, FlexiSPY предлагает программу «обмена» для тех, кто чувствует себя обманутым mSpy или любой другой компанией, занимающейся разработкой приложений для мониторинга и наблюдения за мобильными устройствами. Вот как она работает.
Если вы не можете решить проблему непосредственно с mSpy, поговорите об этом с нами в чате Live Chat. Мы рассчитаем, сколько осталось от вашей лицензии mSpy и предоставим эту разницу в качестве скидки на покупку FlexiSPY EXTREME. Совершенно верно — нет необходимости тратить ваши деньги дважды! Вы можете прочитать о нашей программе «обмена» здесь.
Наша Политика Возврата
Но как насчет политики возврата Flexispy — что по-другому у нас?
В отличие от mSpy, FlexiSPY не практикует политику “вне контроля” и не пишет мелким шрифтом. Так было с того момента, когда мы изобрели программу слежения в 2006 году. Все, что вам нужно, это быть недовольным своей покупкой, и мы вернем ваши деньги. В действительности, мы ни разу не отказали в возврате денег в период 10-дневной гарантии после покупки.
Конечно, изначально наши финансисты не были в восторге от такой открытой политики – в конце концов, бывают и трудные клиенты, и нечестные — но в долгосрочной перспективе, мы получаем множество счастливых клиентов, которые советуют нас своим друзьям и знакомым, принося тем самым дальнейший бизнес.
Присоединяйтесь к нам и помогите другим, таким же, как и вы. Если вы столкнулись с мошенничеством или были обмануты ненадежной Spyphone компанией, сообщите нам, и мы проведем расследование и опубликуем наши выводы здесь.

Parental Controls For Windows Can Be used to manage how your children access their computer. You can set limits on your children’s access to many variables; what games they can play, programs that they can run, what they can search for on the internet, and even control how many hours they can use the computer each day.

If you install parental controls onto your child’s computer and your child tries to access a webpage, or game that was blocked by you, a notification will be displayed and your child will be able to send a request of permission to you, where you can then allow access by entering your account info.

Before you get started, make sure that each child that you want to set up Parental Controls for has a standard user account. Parental Controls can only be applied to standard user accounts. To set up Parental Controls for your child, you’ll need an Administrator user account.

Turning On Parental Controls — 4 steps

1. Open Parental Controls by clicking the Start button , clicking Control Panel, and then, under User Accounts, clicking Set up Parental Controls.‌ If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
2. Click the user account for which you want to set Parental Controls.
3. Under Parental Controls, click On.
4. Now that you’ve turned on Parental Controls for your child’s account, you can adjust the individual settings that you want to control. You can control the following areas:
   • Web restrictions. You can restrict the websites that children can visit, make sure children only visit age-appropriate websites, indicate whether you want to allow file downloads, and set up which content you want the content filters to block and allow. You can also block or allow specific websites
   • Time limits. You can set time limits to control when children are allowed to log on to the computer. Time limits prevent children from logging on during the specified hours and, if they are already logged on, they will be automatically logged off. You can set different logon hours for every day of the week.
   • Games. You can control access to games, choose an age rating level, choose the types of content you want to block, and decide whether you want to allow or block unrated or specific games.
   • Allow or block specific programs. You can prevent children from running programs that you don’t want them to run.

   Setting Up Parental Controls for Windows is easy, but if you have any questions, feel free to ask them in the comments section below.

Setting up parental controls for Mac is an action that could make your children a lot safer. If you’re interested in keeping your kids safe, then you’re in the right place. Following these easy steps, you’ll be able to effectively limit a number of variables, including what games they can play, what content they can access on the web, and even control long they can use they can use the mac each day.

 

Turn on parental controls for an existing user

Do the following.

• Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Parental Controls, click the lock if it’s not unlocked, and then enter an administrator name and password.Select the user, click Enable Parental Controls, and then set up the controls.

Create a new user to manage with parental controls

You can also create a new user to manage.

• Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Parental Controls. If you see a lock, click it to unlock it, and then enter an administrator name and password.
  • If there are users that can be managed using parental controls, click Add (+) below the list of users, enter name and password information, click Create Account, and then set up the controls.
  • If there are no users that can be managed using parental controls, you can create a new user with parental controls or convert the logged-in user to a user with parental controls. For more information, click the Help button in the pane that appears in this situation.

What you can control with parental controls.

Limiting Website Access

You can limit website access for your kids if you don’t want them to be browsing the entire world-wide-web

Clicking the customize button, you’ll be able to add any sites that you feel are appropriate for your child, or add any websites to a blacklist that will block their access to it.

Limiting Applications

If you have important data stored on certain computer applications, you don’t want your kid accessing or accidentally deleting that info.

Limit Time

If you want your kid to get anything done — schoolwork, chores, socializing outside the home, or even to just participate in having a family meal, you’ll probably need to limit their time on the mac..

Conclusion

These are just a few of the many customizations you can make for parental control, but there’s actually tons of options you can choose from, making sure that your kids are as safe as possible on the computer.

Learn How To Spy On An iPad

Let’s take a closer look at how to spy on an iPad. Why? Because whether it’s a an employee or your own child, we all use phones and tablets in different ways, and often for different things. If the person you want to monitor has an iPad, you NEED to be spying on it — even if you are already monitoring their smartphone.

400 Million Devices and Counting

There are an estimated 400 million iOS activated devices. But these devices are most popular with a widely divergent group

• Parents
• Single Men
• Career Builders Over 25
• Pet Owners
• Casual Gamers

It’s also highly notable that nearly half of all US Teenagers are now active on tablets with 68% of these being iPads. iPads are now common in every café and all other social spaces. It seems impossible to pry them away from anyone’s addicted hands. Until now if you needed monitoring software for an iPad, your choices were limited and the features were not very attractive.

FlexiSPY offers truly unique monitoring designed for how people actually use an iPad. We realized the other guys were only repackaging their same old iPhone software with half the features disabled for iPad, and little else to be excited about. This provided an opportunity for another FlexiSPY first, FlexiSPY for iPad.

Spy on an iPad to hear and see exactly how it’s being used — pre-recorded and in real time. Basic capture logs are where the other guys’ software ends, but this is where FlexiSPY only begins!

Remote Listening And Viewing

With FlexiSPY for iPad you’ll have many of the same monitoring features available with our iPhone software. All features are initiated remotely and are completely discreet. The target user is never interrupted from what they’re doing and won’t notice a thing.

Listening tools include recording the ambient environment on demand, as well as quietly using the iPad’s camera to take your own remote pictures whenever you wish. If you take a picture and see something interesting, turn on Ambient Recording to capture the conversation.

Is it Live or Memorex?

True audiophiles old enough to remember these commercials often preferred TDK. But Memorex wanted us to believe it was live, and with FlexiSPY that is exactly what you’ll get. FlexiSPY’s live listening features aren’t offered anywhere else, and this time we’ve outdone ourselves by offering a live camera feed to go with it.

SpyCam is an iPad only feature that works similar to the SpyCall in our smartphone version, but also adds a live feed from the camera! SpyCam uses a FaceTime account to make a discreet FaceTime call to the iPad you’re monitoring, which is answered discreetly and allows you to see and hear the immediate surroundings in real time.

While connected to the stealth SpyCam session you’ll see the video and hear the audio live, but the Target can’t see you. The software is also constantly snapping pictures and sending these back to your online account. Want it recorded at the same time? Simply send a command from your online Dashboard – no cassette tape needed.

An All-In-One Solution

While SpyCam and FlexiSPY’s live listening features are the pearls in this ocean, all other standard logging features continue to keep you updated and informed. FlexiSPY for iPad also captures all photos and videos, web URL’s, Email, Facebook, Line, Skype, Viber, WeChat and iMessage IM’s, along with Notes, Calendar entries and all address book Contacts. Combined with Location tracking, you’ll not only know what is being said and done, but you’ll also know exactly when and where. With FlexiSPY for iPad no matter how it’s being used, you can spy on an iPad as if you were there yourself.

Picture This,

Your kid is chatting with friends on Facebook when a message suddenly appears from someone your child doesn’t know. Is your child going to find you and tell you that a stranger is talking with them, or is your child going to reply to learn more about this mysterious person? erm… What do you think?

Thankfully there’s a solution to almost every problem, and if you follow our guide through these Important steps, you’ll have the knowledge to ensure your kids are safe and secure on the internet.

Tip #1 — Know the playing field

The top 3 most commonly social media that teens are using today.

1. Facebook — a recent study showed that 94% of U.S. teens have active profiles on this social networking platform.
2. Twitter – 26% of all U.S. teens use twitter.
3. Instagram – 11% of U.S. teens are active on this social media site.

Tip #2 — Set boundaries The Easy Way

Parents rarely know just how much time their kids are spending on the internet, or what sites they’re visiting. Here are 2 easy guides to setting up Parental controls for Windows & Mac

• How-To Set Up Parental controls for Windows
• How-To Set Up Parental controls for Mac

Tip #3 — You need to know their Facebook Privacy Settings

Is your home address listed on your child’s Facebook? What about their cell-phone number, or maybe the school they go to? No stranger that is roaming around on social media should be able to access this information, but if privacy settings aren’t set up correctly, they WILL see this information — your child could become a victim.

Here’s a guide to setting up Facebook privacy correctly.

10 Privacy Settings every Facebook User Needs to Know

Tip #4 — Where is the computer? Placement is Key

Designate a central place in the house for the computer

If your child knows he/she is being monitored by everyone walking past the computer screen, they’ll be more careful about the sites they visit. If the computer is in their room behind closed doors, they are more likely to visit nefarious websites or chat with strange people that could put them in danger.

Tip #5 — Find out what they’re doing on their SmartPhones NOW or you’ll regret it later

Children and Teens are now starting to use Smartphones more often than computers for internet activities.

Any parent that’s serious about keeping their children safe on the internet will be monitoring their cellular device. Today’s youth are using smartphones for just about all of their social media activities. In-fact, there’s a mass-exodus taking place with & social media on computers. Teens are now switching over to popular messaging apps ONLY available on SmartPhones, and are increasingly no-longer using the computer for their social needs.

A Phone is Ultra-Private, if its not in your teens hand, its in their pocket. Trying to figure out what they’re up up to on their mobile phone is nearly impossible… Unless you use a monitoring solution.

Here’s The Deal

There are TONS of smartphone monitoring apps available on the marketplace, and most of them suck. Before you pull out your credit card, you need to make sure that the software will monitor every aspect of their mobile device – their text messages, pictures, email, Facebook, LINE, WhatsApp, Instagram – everything. Then, you need to make sure that it will do the monitoring invisibly. Do a little research and if the features are there, go ahead and start monitoring your kids phone, the longer you wait, the more information you’re losing out on. Our software has loads of reviews from industry experts, try finding a review for a competitors site and you’ll easily see the difference between us and the rest.

A good monitoring software will have a money back guarantee, so there’s nothing you can really lose by trying it out. We have a great monitoring solution, that we’re extremely proud of, and that you can try today -10 day money back guarantee included. Read more of our posts or See more of what FlexiSPY can do for you

Success is a matter of learning from the best

When it comes to the use of military strategy, there are no greater masters than Sun Tzu or The Mossad.
«By Way Of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War» or “All War Is Based On Deception”. Claimed to the motto of the venerable Israeli Spy Agency and the most famous Chinese General of all time respectively, these quotes are received wisdom for generations of leaders for whom failure is not an option
No surprise then that FlexiSPY takes direct inspiration from these masters. After all, it is spy software, designed to uncover secrets from smartphones and iPads. Let’s look at Spoof SMS for example,
FlexiSPY Spoof SMS feature was specifically designed to use deception to manipulate someone into a situation where you can turn information into a real action plan.

Here’s how it works

After FlexiSPY’s mobile spy software is installed on an Android or iPhone device, you can create an SMS message and secretly force the cellphone to send it to any phone number you want. The person receiving the SMS thinks its coming from the person that owns the phone — in fact, it’s a message that YOU have forged to control their next move
How is this useful?

For example, you may already use FlexiSPY and find your child is getting calls from a number you don’t recognize. Or perhaps you see your your son or daughter discussing illicit topics with their friends or even strangers. Now imagine you could send a reply SMS to the number that seemed to come from your child.
Log into the FlexiSPY control panel and create a spoof SMS message such as, «Ok, I’m coming. Where shall we meet» and it will be sent from the target device, luring the predator, drug dealer or bully to a place you choose. Protect your family with Spoof SMS from FlexiSPY*.

That’s it! The next time the device connects to FlexiSPY server, it will pick up this spoof request and the SMS will be sent from the target device to the recipient that you specified.
Like these great strategists, Spoof SMS is a way to use deception to defeat the enemy

How To Send Spoof SMS

To send a spoof SMS, go to the Control Center and enter the number of the recipient and the message to be sent.

Here’s an example of using the spoof SMS feature

1. Go to your Control Center and select «Spoofing Controls».
2. Select «Send a spoof SMS» from the list of available spoof features.
3. Enter the number of the recipient and the message to be sent using the form on the page.
4. Click «Send Spoof SMS Now».

That’s it!

The next time the device connects to the FlexiSPY server, it will pick up this spoof request and the SMS will be sent from the target device to the recipient that you specified.

*FlexiSPY does not condone the use of violence or any illegal activities. Always consult a lawyer before using FlexiSPY.