Telephone Monitoring

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Sep 11

Conventional Phone Taps – mobile spy

Phone taps can be used for audio surveillance in a number of ways. They can be used to transmit a conversation to a remote location, where someone else can listen to it; they can tap a phone to record a conversation as it occurs (with the option to manually or automatically record); or they can simultaneously transmit and record the content of a call.

Some taps can be placed either directly in the ear piece (“coil taps”) or somewhere on the telephone line. For those that go on the line, there is also a basic difference between “series” phone taps and “parallel” phone taps.

A series tap, which is the more common, inserts the bugging device into the existing wire, so the existing phone line must be temporarily cut to install the device.

The effect is to intercept the signal flowing “downstream” from the main exchange. That means a series tap must go somewhere between the incoming telephone line and the phone that is the target of your operation. In a home residence, if all the phones are on the same line, then a series tap will be able to target all of them provided it is placed “above” each of them on the incoming line.

If there are different lines, it will only target the phone or phones that are downstream from the tap on that particular line. A parallel phone tap is installed across the existing wires without having to cut them. Its wires attach to the same terminal points that anchor the existing wires.

This, by contrast, can target every telephone on the line no matter where it is placed on the line. A series tap can transmit a conversation to a receiver approximately 100 to 500 feet away. They are typically “parasitic” devices, which means they can suck enough power directly from the phone line without the need for any batteries or external power source.

The range for a parallel tap transmission is greater, with a range of between 200 and 1000 feet. It does require an external power source. These phone taps are both readily available from a local hardware or electronics shop, and retail for anywhere between $30 to several hundred dollars depending on the recording and transmitting capabilities you are after.

Another form of tap that is worth consideration is called a “modular jack” transmitter, and its beauty is in its ability to remain disguised in plain view. It simply plugs into the existing phone jack and looks like nothing other than an additional splitter. It can receive at a range over 1000 feet with a decent receiver. You can order it online fully assembled for about $75.

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Sep 11

Cell Phone – Call Recording Software

It is possible to have a calling log sent directly to your computer with the right software set-up. The same software can be used to automatically record the content of incoming calls.

This method is quite simple – and quite common – for those who are recording their own phone conversations for business purposes. But it can be trickier, not to mention legally problematic, to use the same method to record someone else’s conversation. For example, if you share a computer with the target of your surveillance operations, then they will likely be able to detect its presence.

Still, call software that logs incoming calls and records the conversation may be your first port of call when it comes to audio surveillance, simply because it both logs numbers and records content for you. It will cost you around $50 and can be downloaded from the Internet. There is more advanced software dedicated to telephone services that will automatically record outgoing calls as well, which will cost more in the range of $150.

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Aug 11

Tap a cell spy with undetectable cell spy

A telephone tap is a device that connects directly to a telephone that enables you to listen to phone conversations and also record them. It got its name of “phone tap” or “wire tap” from the fact that the earliest models would be attached directly to the phone wires of the user being monitored and would draw a small amount of the electronic signal carrying the conversation.

Today phone taps come in many forms, and they are still used by law enforcement agents to gather information in a manner that, while controversial, is legal. This process is referred to as “lawful interception,” and the privilege doesn’t exactly extend to you and me. In some places, the act of installing a phone tap is illegal in itself.

These are things you should be aware of when you go the road of audio surveillance. In any case, it’s all the more reason to make sure you get the job done right, in undetectably sublime fashion!

In the past, you would have to do a lot of work to reap the rewards of a tapped phone. You would have to sit somewhere in the vicinity of the tapped line and physically transcribe what you heard over your earphones. Today, when you tap an analog phone, you can record the conversations without having to be there when they occur. To maintain the tap, all you need to do is change the tape on the recording device according to its duration. The best taps can signal the recorder to kick into action only when the phone line is in use.

The ability to tap phones also has become much easier for cable companies providing digital phone services. All they have to do is get their centralized computer system to record the digital information that travels over their wires (in the form of the 0’s and 1’s of binary digits) and store it on their computer network.

Even though your own powers of telephone surveillance are for the most part limited to recording on your own phone line or one that you have direct access to, digital technology has made life easier for you as well. It is now possible to record both analog as well as digital phone calls by connecting recording devices up to computers, which can convert the conversations into digital format and save them as sound files.