You don’t need a team of sophisticated hackers to break into a mobile network to launch an SMS phishing campaign. With few supplies, a Chinese man managed to turn his van into a flooded part of Bangkok with a million SMS messages.
When you receive a fake SMS, asking you to contact a website for a fake customs story on a package or unpaid invoice, you might think the sender is in another country. side, or even on the other side of the country. Abroad, perhaps even on another continent. But it can also be at the end of the street.
A Chinese man, aged 35, was arrested in Bangkok for sending. TextsTexts Trying to deceive people around. According to Bangkok PostThe man is said to have sent a million messages in just three days in the Thai capital.
To do this, he used a vehicle equipped with base stations to deliver messages directly to victims, rather than trying to infiltrate the mobile network. It also contained an 8 kW portable power supply, a Wi-Fi router and several smartphones.
Video of the man’s arrest, along with all the equipment that was in his car. © Thai Press
Several scam networks in Thailand have been busted recently.
A base station pretends to be a local operator’s base station. Advanced information service (AIS), which causes nearby smartphones to connect to it when the signal is stronger. The transmitter does not need to know the number of smartphones, as it can then send messages to them using the service. playplay Cellular, usually used for emergency alert messages.
Victims, who are unaware that their smartphone is connected to a fake base station, receive a message encouraging them to use loyalty points before they expire, along with A loyalty site has a link.ForgeryForgery) quite a classic.
This type of attack by Chinese nationals appears to be a problem in Thailand. At the same time, police busted a network of fraudsters who used more than 10,000 phone numbers to call victims and convince them to invest in fraudulent deals. In total, they made more than 730 million calls to the three companies owned by Chinese nationals. Police have issued arrest warrants for 24 accused including 9 foreigners and 10 have already been arrested.
In September, Thai police arrested a 25-year-old Chinese national on suspicion of smuggling equipment used by “call center gangs” to defraud victims. Police have already seized 86 devices. StarlinkStarlink and more than 30,000 SIM cards, then seized 10 additional Starlink devices during its shutdown.
