Alcatel won't let it's Users Manage their Own Apps

I got an Alcatel phone from Amazon for very little, I think about $40.

I got my Costa Rica phone number transferred to it, without a problem. I can make calls with it, to anywhere in Costa Rica, or even to the States. I didn't use it for anything else.

But I started to get these strange messages about all the apps on my phone. If I woke up in the middle of the night, I could see my phone was on, doing something - what, I had no idea.

I checked, and sure enough I had about a hundred apps on my phone - most of which, I had never heard of before. This was interesting - but even more interesting, was the fact that I could not get rid of them!