Scams & Phishing News Bangkok busts SMS Blaster sending 1 million scam texts from a van

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The Thailand police located a van and arrested its driver for using an SMS blaster device to spam over 100,000 SMS phishing texts an hour to people living in Bangkok.

The device, which reportedly had a range of approximately three kilometers (10,000 feet), could send out messages at a rate of 100,000 every hour.

Bangkok busts SMS Blaster sending 1 million scam texts from a van

The Thai police, working together with Thailand's largest telecommunications service provider, Advanced Info Service (AIS), located and busted the Chinese operators of an SMS blaster device that spammed fraudulent messages across Bangkok.

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