Talking
Angela is a scary urban legend about a mobile phone app that allows
creepy hackers to interact with kids and take pictures of them.
Talking Angela started as a mobile phone application for children.
Angela is a white cat with blue eyes who has a conversation with you and
can answer your questions.
Emails and Facebook posts began to circulate warning people not to
use Talking Angela saying the app had been taken over by a someone who
uses it to spy on children and possibly kidnap them. He has managed to
hack into the app and uses it to gain access to personal information on
people’s phones.
They warn that if you say you are over 18, nothing happens, but if
you’re younger, the cat starts asking weird things, like where do you
live, what are your parents’ names, what is your phone number, etc.
The altered app is able to take photos and record video of you
through the phone’s camera and if you zoom in and look carefully at the
cat’s eyes, you can actually see him. Sometimes there is just an empty
room, but sometimes you can see a creepy guy watching you. Even if you
close down the app, it keeps running in the background so he can watch
you and take pictures.
In one of the more sinister cases, a young girl was talking to Angela
and got the scare of her life. Angela asked her age and the girl
decided to lie and say she was 30 years old. She was horrified when the
cat responded, “That’s a lie. You’re about 11 or 12.” The girl was
shocked and stunned. Then, as if it could see the expression on the
girl’s face, it said, “I know you’re about to delete me. Take care.
Sweetheart!”
In another case, a child was talking to the cat and happened to place
his finger over one of Angela’s eyes. The cat said, Take your goddamn
hand off my eye, I can’t see!¨ The boy closed down the app, but later he
heard a clicking sound coming from the phone as if it was taking photos
of him.
Some Spanish-language websites claim that a young boy named Eli
Morenos, who lived in a suburb of Dallas, Texas, disappeared shortly
after his mother downloaded the Talking Angela app.
One woman claimed that her daughter stayed home from school and was
on her iPod playing with Talking Angela. The mother overheard the
conversation and said the cat knew her daughter’s name and asked
strange, personal questions.
The mother said she had heard enough and yelled at her daughter to
shut off the app. She was so freaked out that she called the police
department and they said they would have their internet investigations
unit look into it. They called her back an hour later and said,
“Something is behind that cat!!!”
When a police officer came to interview the little girl, she told him
that she had been using the app with her cousin and Angela asked both
girls their names and her brothers name was what school they went to. It
also took a picture of them. When the girl used the app again a few
days later, it remembered that she had a brother.
Apparently the cat is also asking girls for their phone numbers and if they’ve had their first kiss yet!
Source : http://urbanlegendsonline.com/warning-about-the-talking-angela-app/
~ Admin LL
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