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(Please note that i'm not a native English speaker. If something is not clear ask me.)

So i wanted to to share my story with you all about a phone i bought some time ago during my last trip to Turkey.

So i was in Istanbul and screwed up my LG Nexus4 which i had been using for a long time with a custom ROM. Then i decided to buy a not so expensive smartphone and went to a shop. After looking around a bit the shop owner somehow convinced me to buy the "Turkish" CASPER VIA M2 (it is a copy/replica of the WIKO U FEEL PRIME, more about this later)

I bought the phone for 100 USD and was quite impressed by its specs. It was a new phone but like always i decided to format it through Androids recovery options before the first use.

I set everything up and after installing a Firewall app i realized some android system Apps like "contacts" were trying to connect to Chinese server IPs through port 80 and to "fans.tinno.com".

At that time all i could do was blocking those access attempts with a firewall app, meanwhile i was trying to root the phone and get rid of all those malware apps. So i didn't put much effort into looking for which data has been sent to those Chinese servers either.

After some research on how to root the phone i found out that this phone was almost the same copy/replica of the WIKO U FEEL PRIME, BLU LIFE ONE X and YU YUREKA BLACK. I finally managed to unlock the phones bootloader and root it, so i got rid of those apps.

I was still thinking about those IPs and started googling for those strange activities which i found on the phone and came to this users detailed Tweets on which data exactly those apps are stealing: https://twitter.com/fs0c131y/status/932249064208551936

(Might have been a bit different on my phone but at the end it is the same chinese company which is spying.)

So the China based "TINNO MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES" is manufacturing phones for various companies around the world, which are being then delivered to thousands of end-users not knowing that they are being spied.