Have you ever wondered who has been stealing data from your android phone?

Have you ever wondered who has been stealing data from your android phone?

By Ahmed Joe

 Each time I subscribe to a  data plan irrespective of network, I somehow feel shortchanged. Many others feel that way also. Well? It is because we use relatively cheaper well-packaged Made in China phones that have factory settings with preinstalled Malware. Each time by your own volition download an App from Google Play Store for instance, somebody receives a royalty somewhere. However with a Malware your knowledge and permission is never sought. You just see pop ads and Apps and other sites on your screen that come and go indiscriminately. Meanwhile, you are paying a hidden cost gradually. 

This type of strategic scam is not new. Fela in his “ITT” album put it in another context; “Many foreign companies dey Africa carry all our money go” 
Fela went on to croon; “Dem go write big English for newspaper, dabaru we Africans” Except this time around it is with low-cost, very attractive and appealing devices, not “big English” No wonder they are called Smartphones!

 One thing is obvious though, the theft is as Fela puts it; “Like rat they do them go do from
Corner corner, pass-ee pass-ee
Under under, pass-ee pass-ee
Inside inside, pass-ee pass-ee”

There is nothing like a free lunch. China’s phones are actually more expensive than Samsung, Apple and other Big Boy brands; “Cunny man die, cunny man bury am”