The software works on Windows based smart phones as well as Blackberry's and at least twenty other phones, with more being added every day. The Vervata site allows you to check compatibility for with your current phone. For several years now, spy shops have been selling phones that monitor room audio only. The phones can range from $4,500 to a low of $1,800 for a bottom of the barrel Nokia. The spy shop types had a lock on the market and the phone sales were fast and furious to the would-be buggers. The Flex Spy-Pro has an advertised price of 150 euros or $207.55 US dollars for downloads when paid for with a major credit card.

This new 007 software does it all and at a price that is guarantees sales on a major scale, worldwide. Is it legal? Well, the answer is yes and a giant no. You can download the software to a phone that you own and use yourself. The excuse is that you need a permanent record of all of your phone transactions, emails, etc. It is kind of like having Tivo on your phone. The reality is that people will download it to their spouse's phone, or to a business partner's phone, an employee's phone or to their teenager's phone. For proof that this will happen look no farther than the long and sorted history of people who have been arrested doing all of the above with the Spy Shop phones. Their have been cases where people give the phones as gifts to business associates to keep track of their every move.

If you download the software to a phone owned by another individual for the intent of surreptitiously monitoring, diverting text messages or intercepting phone calls, you fall under United States Code Title -18 Chapter 119. To paraphrase, it says you're screwed and your new address is soon to be that of a federal correction facility. That's the long and short of it. If you just have to have more information, Google US Code Title-18. You'll enjoy volumes of the federal criminal code relating to wiretapping, surreptitious interception of audio conversations, etc.

The sad fact is that in the not too distant future, there will be a lot of people who have no idea that they are breaking federal and state laws by downloading software intended to intercept cell phone conversations. They will find out the hard way, how unforgiving US Title-18 is and how willing the US Attorneys are to prosecute the crime. The mindset of federal prosecutors is to make a big example of the first offenders and everyone else will think twice before risking their freedom.

To the average eye, the Vervata website looks professional, organized and legitimate. Downloading the software looks the same as all other websites that people use to download software millions of times in any given day. The thought is, if it is openly advertised, it must be legal and OK. The Vervata website talks about catching your cheating spouse with the Flex Spy-Pro Software. They make it sound funny. The author goes on and on about how hard it is to catch a woman that is cheating and how easy it is to catch her with their software. They have another section aimed at catching cheating men, advising women on how to catch their spouse with incontrovertible proof. Both articles come complete with pictures of lost and grieving husbands and wives needing immediate help from Flex Spy-Pro Software.

Federal law makes it illegal even to advertise any type of bugging device, or software let alone sell it in the United States. Of course, Vervata is located in Thailand, prompting them to believe that they are exempt from US Laws. History has shown that this is not always the case. For now, the jury is out on this issue. Time and prosecutions will define how far the US will go to push the issue. Vervata has said that they will not give up customer information unless they are forced to. When Vervata's list of US Customers eventually falls into the hands of the US Attorney, heads will roll. A former agent with one of those three letter agencies offered this advice: Stay as far away from that software as you can. We think this advice is rock solid.