A man who was feeling unhappy due to the constant arguments decided to plant a spy application on her mobile phone.
30-year-old Nicholas Wang Weichou installed the application which allowed him to monitor her location, activate the camera and listen to her surroundings.
Typically mobile spy apps have the capability to also control the phone and read incoming messages, text that has been typed (including passwords) and even downloads any media on the phone.
On one occasion he even sent threatening messages to his wife.
Straits Times reported that Wang was also facing charges for moneylending related charges.
Background:
After the constant struggles in their relationship, Wang purchased a software license known as TTSPY which allowed him to have control, read, write, execute and delete contents of his wife’s phone.
He paid a total amount of $160 for two months worth of subscriptions. While his wife was sleeping he installed the application on her phone.
He even took control of her email and social media accounts.
It is not known how his wife found out but her wife later posted messages on Facebook stating that she has been hacked by her husband.
The victim later made a Police report and Wang tried to dispose of his phone at Boon Lay Market after realising that there is a Police case against him.
Money lending
Back in 2020, Wang took $400 from loan sharks but failed to return the money.
He was then “hired” by the loanshark to perform harassment acts in return, he was told to place locks and debtor notes at homes.
Verdict
Wang was jailed 2 weeks for unlawful stalking and an additional 5 months for loanshark harassment activites.